BB Foundation supports projects to generate work and income, in all regions of the country, for the socioproductive inclusion of vulnerable people. In the selection of actions to be supported, requirements related to sustainability principles are considered: environmentally correct; economically feasible; socially just and culturally accepted.
The permanent search for the programs and projects carried out to meet the criteria of socioenvironmental responsibility is included in our Sustainability Policy.
These actions are carried out through our structured programs, which are divided into five themes that are transversal and structuring to the support of socioenvironmental projects and actions.
Program created in 2019, aimed at minimizing the negative impacts on populations affected by humanitarian crises and calamities, promoting assistance actions and access and maintenance of basic human rights. It has already served more than 4 million people directly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 and 2021 floods in MG, ES, AC, BA.
The Brazilians for Brazil campaign is a great solidarity movement that connects family farmers to people in situations of social vulnerability, purchasing products from small producers to distribute food baskets to the people who need it most, as well as investing part of the resources mobilized in structuring actions of support to the production chain, generating work, income and contributing to the social development of Brazilians.
BRL 56.7 million (USD 12.06 million) were raised, comprising own resources, donations from individuals and more than 80 BB client companies, especially Petrobras, which donated BRL 21 million (USD 4.47 million) to supply gas stipends, to be carried out in 2022.
The success of this campaign is a result of the credibility achieved by BB Foundation with society and its stakeholders, also due to the success of previous actions to face the effects of the pandemic.
BB Foundation invested in broad dissemination, transparency and accountability for the use of funds raised, including through the provision of a specific website. In order to strengthen the brand and encourage the mobilization of new partnerships, we developed a campaign broadcast in the media, including through television stations, aiming to engage Brazilian society in the culture of donation.
Eveline Veloso Susin, president of BB Foundation, highlighted that the solidarity movement “Brasileiros pelo Brasil” represents the union of efforts around a common purpose: “This action becomes an example of how to act in a chain and with valuable partners that, when they come together, have the power to positively impact the lives of millions of people, strengthening regional development and promoting the generation of work and income”.
In 2021, the Protect and Save More Lives campaign, in which Banco BV, National Confederation of Municipalities - CNM and BB DTVM participated, continued the work started in 2020 in actions aimed at minimizing the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. BRL 4.3 million (916 thousand dollars) was invested to support 1,633 small rural producers, serving 29,000 families with the distribution of agroecological food baskets in all regions of the country.
BB Foundation acted promptly in assisting those impacted by the floods that devastated Brazilian states in 2021, with the distribution of food, hygiene items and mattresses, among other items of immediate need. The amounts contributed in these actions total more than BRL 2.6 million (554 thousand dollars).
Banco do Brasil and BB Foundation joined forces in favor of the Us for Them action, coordinated by the Association of Brazilian Magistrates - AMB, which welcomed and granted humanitarian visas to seven Afghan female judges and their families. They were at risk due to the performance of their duties, as they tried and convicted members of the Taliban regime – which recently took over the Asian nation.
Banco do Brasil donated BRL 100,000 (21.3 thousand dollars) via Banco do Brasil Foundation, to help families during the first days and, also, an exclusive account was created to receive donations, through the key pix.nosporelas@fbb.org.br
The partnership between BB Foundation, Banco BV and Natura benefited more than 4,000 socially vulnerable families located in remote regions of the country. The initiative intensified actions to combat the pandemic through donations of an Alelo food card to associations and cooperatives.
Delivery took place in seven states: Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraná, and Rondônia. The initiative was a way of contributing to the acquisition of products from local commerce, helping to strengthen the economy and generate work and income, since the food baskets were composed of regional items, in addition to hygiene and cleaning products.
The program aims to prepare children and adolescents for the future, developing skills and knowledge so that they can be protagonists of their lives.
AABB Comunidade, created in 1987, is carried out at the headquarters of the AABBs – Athletic Associations of Banco do Brasil with students from public schools after school hours.
The program has a new slogan – Education for the Future – as a connection with new trends and technologies to solve the demands of everyday life, the exercise of citizenship and the world of work. This new guideline will provide program participants with the possibility of professional qualification and preparation for the labor market, thus contributing to the generation of work and income for those young people.
The program offers school complementation for children and adolescents from the public school system, aged between 6 and 14 years old.
Continuing the more than 30-year partnership between BB Foundation and the National Federation of AABBs - FENABB, in 2021 the program served 23,175 students in all regions of the country with the support of 1,024 social educators.
Eveline Veloso Susin, president of BB Foundation, highlighted that “education is one of these transforming actions, which also involves social assistance and volunteering, integrating family, school and community. We appreciate the opportunity to present the preparations for the quadrennium and for building a better future through education”.
Gustavo Boeira, president of FENABB, highlighted the partnership signed with BB Foundation and Banco do Brasil and reinforced the integration obtained with the presidents of the AABBs in the program. “The AABB Community is the result of this union of efforts, of this work network that integrates educators, coordinators and the presidents of the AABBs – mostly employees and managers of branches of the BB network. I thank the BB Foundation teams, because together we will
make the AABB Community Program very strong, we will take it to another level”.
Banco do Brasil Foundation and Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises - Sebrae signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the Ministry of Communications so that each one makes available free Wi-Fi points, bringing high-speed connectivity to Brazilian locations with no or little connection. In the agreement with BB Foundation, the focus is on education, since initiatives are planned seeking to prepare the school community for its insertion in the digital culture, through the provision of content being made available on a virtual platform.
To make educational actions viable, Banco do Brasil Foundation and the Ministry of Education signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement that will promote the social development of people and communities in the country. The objective is to allow teachers to continue training through courses provided by the Ministry of Education available in the Virtual Learning Environment - AVAMEC.
Also in 2021, the process of selecting public schools from all regions of the country began, which have high rates of age/grade distortion and absence or low connectivity, also served by the partnership between the BB Foundation and the Ministry of Communications, which will be covered with the Internet signal, with delivery forecast for 2022.
Generate work and income for traditional communities and populations in situations of social vulnerability, poverty and unemployment aligned with environmental care and the promotion of a sustainable country.
To strengthen the Green Economy, connecting social investment and BB's businesses, BB Consórcios released Green Group, a product designed to encourage the acquisition of goods aimed at efficient use of natural resources and low carbon emissions, considering the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) aspects.
Thus, in partnership with BB Foundation, BB Consórcios assumed the commitment to plant 10 trees for each share sold by this group. All were sold in record time, demonstrating the value of sustainable actions with customers and employees. 100,000 native seedlings are being planted in the regions of Vale do Jequitinhonha, in the state of Minas Gerais and in the Atlantic Forest Biome, in municipalities around the Serra do Mar area of São Paulo (Alto Tietê, Vale do Paraíba and Vale do Ribeira).
The Conserva Cerrado, public notice was launched, as a result of the Cooperation Agreement between Banco do Brasil Foundation and Instituto Brasília Ambiental (Brasília Environmental Institute). The purpose of the action was to supply the protected areas of the Federal District - DF with management and planning tools for the protection of nature and select a proposal with the purpose of preparing technical studies for the creation, recategorization, definition of polygons and preparing management plans for Units of Conservation – UCs in the DF. The event also includes the mapping of priority areas for conservation in the DF.
At the end of the selection process, Fundação Pró-Natureza - Funatura, from the Federal District, was the institution qualified to receive an investment of BRL 986 (USD 210) thousand for the execution of the project to be started in 2022.
Expand the use and appropriation of social technologies as solutions to socioenvironmental demands by communities in situations of vulnerability.
BB Foundation, the Ministry of Citizenship - MC and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development - BNDES formalized the Technical Cooperation Agreement with the objective of promoting access to water for 2,000 public schools in northeastern Brazil, through the implementation of school cisterns, benefiting 100 Thousand people.
The first action to be developed within the scope of the partnership aims to implement cisterns in schools in the Northeast and North regions of Brazil.
Contribute to the promotion of citizenship and a dignified life in vulnerable communities through volunteer actions by employees of the Banco do Brasil Conglomerate.
The project aims to support initiatives developed by nonprofit entities where BB volunteers (employees of Banco do Brasil, active or retired) work at.
In 2021, part of the analyzes that had been postponed in the previous year were carried out due to the context of social isolation and the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, considering the difficulties and insecurities regarding the beginning of the execution of the project activities. The others will be carried out in the first quarter of 2022.
The campaign “Childhood & Life Action" was carried out in September, October and November 2021, in partnership with BB and the National Confederation of Support and Assistance Institutions for Children and Adolescents with Cancer - Coniacc, to support the treatment of childhood cancer. BRL 250 (USD 53) thousand were raised to be invested in 2022.
