2025 Highlights

In 2025, Fundação Vale developed projects in the areas of health, education, and income generation, in addition to the activities of the Knowledge Stations. In total, 43 municipalities were reached across the states of Pará, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Rio de Janeiro, impacting approximately 3 million people. The year was also marked by support to Vale in allocating R$ 363.5 million in incentivized resources across six incentive laws — the Children and Adolescents Funds, the Elderly Person Funds, the Federal Sports Incentive Law, the National Program to Support Oncological Care (Pronon), the National Program to Support Healthcare for Persons with Disabilities (Pronas/PCD), and the Recycling Incentive Law.

In education, 85% of the municipalities where Fundação Vale operates received the National Literate Child Seal, a recognition from the Ministry of Education (MEC) for efforts and initiatives in the formulation and implementation of policies, programs, and strategies that ensure children’s right to literacy. Another highlight was the launch of pedagogical materials for the Literacy Trails project, aligned with the culture and reality of each of the 35 municipalities in which the project is implemented.

The Knowledge Stations (EC), located in Arari (MA), Brumadinho (MG), Serra (ES), Marabá, and Tucumã (PA) — are spaces dedicated to social inclusion through the offering of sports, cultural, and educational activities, as well as the strengthening of community bonds. In 2025, the Stations expanded their reach to public spaces and neighboring communities around each unit. In total, the ECs served 9,600 people, of whom 6,500 were children, adolescents, and young people.

In the field of health, Fundação Vale’s initiatives benefited 3 million users of the Unified Health System (SUS) or the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), in addition to the training of 10,900 professionals and the donation of 16,500 items and pieces of equipment. One of the highlights was the implementation of the Indigenous Health Cycle in the states of Maranhão and Pará, a project that seeks to strengthen the primary healthcare network in the DSEI Guamá-Tocantins and DSEI Maranhão.

Fundação Vale also carries out initiatives that contribute to stimulating local economies, strengthening production and commercialization networks, and expanding sustainable work and income alternatives. In 2025, the income generation projects supported 1,100 people and 24 businesses in the states of Pará, Maranhão, and Minas Gerais.

Acting strategically within “Together Against Poverty,” an initiative coordinated by Vale, the Foundation carries out projects alongside municipalities, structuring monitoring, follow-up, and evaluation processes. In 2025, the projects supporting the fight against extreme poverty benefited 21,100 people.