Formare

Implemented in the companies since 2006, the program originated within the Iochpe-Maxion companies with the objective of developing the potentials of low-income youth, with ages between 16 and 17 years old, within the company itself.

Created through a partnership of the Iochpe Foundation with the Federal Technology University of Paraná (UTFPR), the program, which has an average duration of 11 months, includes 70 schools all over the country, maintained by 50 companies, which provide physical space and time of their employees to work as volunteer educators. The Formare network school participants receive many benefits, such as transportation, medical assistance, life insurance, meals, grant-aids, Christmas basket and school material.

The training course is fully given by volunteer collaborators from the company and community itself, who are trained by the Iochpe Foundation. It has a theoretical content with classroom exercises and expository lessons, and practical ones as well, where the teenagers have the opportunity becoming a trainee in the administrative and manufacturing areas.

The school is a success in the towns where the company operates, attracting, every year, dozens of youngsters who participate in the selective process for the trainee positions.