The chief goal of this program is to engage, mobilize and raise the awareness of employees, clients and neighboring communities through a wealth of social and educational activities, lectures, programs and projects aimed at the wellbeing of participants.
Geared to employees and residents of neighboring communities to Construcap’s construction sites, this program aims to provide professional skills development by offering certification courses in order to bring improvements to the lives of these people, while also creating an opportunity for positive change for their future challenges and new opportunities on the job market. This program is also focused on the family sustainability of participants. Its method provides practical and theoretical knowledge, skills and capacity building, besides autonomy in their field of work.
Grêmio Colmeia Program
Since 1999 Construcap has sponsored the Grêmio Colmeia Program, which is undertaken by Colmeia – Instituição a Serviço da Juventude, an NGO that provides social services to youngsters and promotes educational, cultural and sports activities aimed at the development of children and teenagers for their personal and social growth and citizenship awareness through ethical and moral principles.
The program participants are offered for free and year-round activities such as sports, tournaments, arts, capoeira, dance, lectures, visits to exhibitions, etc. To date, over 2,000 children and teenagers have benefited from the program.
Culture and Leisure Program
This program offers cultural and leisure activities by fostering interaction among employees to strengthen their cultural capital, while facilitating their access to reading, arts and sports through activities such as soccer tournaments, domino, table tennis, gymkhanas, folk performances, film, theater plays, day trips, etc.
Digital Inclusion Program
This program seeks to provide universal access to information technologies aimed at the employees’ professional growth and development to better prepare them for the labor market. This program is not designed for employees to use IT support tools merely to exchange e-mails but rather to improve their livelihoods.
Legal Assistance Program
Free program offered in partnership with universities geared to construction site workers addressing legal issues such as family conflicts, disputes, consumer rights, etc. Employees are individually seen by a legal professional who helps them and guides them on those issues.
Financial Education Program
This program provides advice on the importance of maintaining a healthy financial life through economic awareness and responsible consumption. It seeks to educate and encourage employees to bring their expenses in line with their household income in everyday situations, while encouraging them to share these concepts with their family.
Guide to Employee Behavior – Construction Site, Workers Quarters and Dormitories
The focus of this program is to discuss personal behavior and relationship among employees by providing tips and recommendations on their rights and duties through quizzes, playful posters, and educational and interactive activities.
Family Relations and Family Planning
This program seeks to address issues related to family relations and communication between the employees and their spouses and children and also with their parents and siblings and their different family arrangements. The program focuses mainly on employees’ children’s social and cognitive development, communication with family members, and how to handle routines and problems of family living.
STD/HIV Prevention
This program seeks to disseminate information on sexually transmitted disease through regular employee awareness campaigns. The program covers existing STDs and their prevention, symptoms, and treatment. It also seeks to offer easy and free access to condoms on Construcap’s construction sites.
Guidance on Legal and Illegal Drugs
This program seeks to sensitize employees on the use of legal and illegal drugs, their side effects and consequences in the social, family and work environment through testimonials from people with chemical dependency problems
Fight Against Abuse of Chilren and Teenagers
This program is aimed at educating employees on child and teenager sex abuse and its consequences, as well as informing them of the whistleblower channels available for this end.
Haircut
The company offers free haircuts to site workers, thus ensuring money and time savings.
Donation of Used Uniforms
Used employee uniforms are donated to charitable institutions located around the company’s construction sites helping them raise money and contributing to sustainability.
Winter Clothes Campaign
This campaign seeks to sensitize and mobilize the company’s workforce towards helping socially vulnerable groups living around its worksites.
Employee Onboarding and Termination Program
This program aims to help new employees become acquainted with the company’s rules, philosophy, code of conduct, and quality standards and help terminated employees cope with their new reality.
Food Quality and Food Preference Survey
To monitor the quality of the food served to employees and their choice of food the company hires a nutritionist who pays regular visits to its construction sites. The nutritionist provides guidance about food quality and the best ways to store each type of food.