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CONTENTS3 All our energy for Brazil

4 Rio+20: our commitment for a greener economy and sustainable energy access for all

6 GDF SUEZ in Brazil

GDF SUEZ: partnering Brazilians in their daily lives

10 Beyond Business 13 Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ Group, an ecologically social

responsible company16 Leme Engenharia: helping needy populations17 Degrémont, with "Arca do Saber" in the heart

of a Brazilian favela

GDF SUEZ Foundation in Brazil

20 The 2011 projects22 Festival Encantado, a showcase for commitments

made by the GDF SUEZ Corporate Foundation in Brazil23 Two Brazilian employees rewarded

in GDF SUEZ Foundation’s first call for projects


Twenty years after the first “Earth Summit” organized at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, once again Brazil is hosting the “Rio+20” Conference, which brings together top national authorities around environmental issues. This summit is an opportunity to renew the global political commitment to sustainable development and to draw up an inventory of measures already in place up to the present.

The focus of discussions is on the deployment of a green economy fostering sustainable development and the eradication of poverty. These topics are fully incorporated into GDF SUEZ development strategy – its presence at the Rio+20 Conference provides the chance to promote its activities in favor of green economy, access to energy, the optimization of natural resources, and urban development.

As the leading global utility, GDF SUEZ is actively participating in the mobilization taking place around this summit, which deals with all topics related to its activity. This is also an opportunity for the Group to reaffirm its intention to support that country dear to its heart, in its economic, social and environmental expansion.

Brazil is particularly illustrative of the industrial, human and civic commitment made by GDF SUEZ and its subsidiaries, which follow an active policy of corporate patronage and partnerships on the ground in all countries where they operate, consistent with their corporate values. Whether it concerns social initiatives, environmental projects, cultural sponsorship or partnerships with the world of sport, the Group’s goal is always to act as a corporate citizen that is socially responsible and firmly integrated in local communities.

From Ceará to Piauí, Goiás, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, GDF SUEZ and its energy and environment subsidiaries are present in a large part of the Brazilian territory. At every facility, a social and environmental action plan is carried out in partnership with local associations and structures. Rio+20 is the opportunity to recall the importance of Brazil to the Group and promote the activities it is carrying out in the country in the fields of corporate patronage and civic involvement.

All our energy for Brazil

"The Group always aims to act in a socially

responsible manner as a

corporate citizen actively involved

in the life of local communities."

Gérard MestralletchairMan & chief executive officer


Rio+20: our commitment for a greener economy and sustainable energy access for all

GDF SUEZ develops its businesses around a model based on responsible growth to take up today’s major energy and environmental challenges: meeting energy needs, ensuring the security of supply, fighting against climate change and maximizing the use of resources. The Group provides highly efficient and innovative solutions to individuals, cities and businesses by using cutting-edge technology and relying on diversified gas supply sources, flexible and low‐emission power generation as well as unique expertise in four key sectors: liquefied natural gas, energy efficiency services, independent power production and environmental services.

GDF SUEZ operates in over 150 countries, employing 219,000 people worldwide. The Group is listed on the Brussels, Luxembourg and Paris stock exchanges and in the main international stock markets. GDF SUEZ is the No. 1 independent power producer in the world, with an installed capacity of 117.3 GW and 14.8 GW under construction, and is the second global supplier of environmental services.

In a world where about one billion people do not have access to drinking water, 2.5 billion have no access to basic sanitation and more than 1.5 billion to electric power, GDF SUEZ, as a leading company in these sectors, knows the large responsibility it has in providing these services to millions of people, always with great concern to the social,

environmental and economic sustainability promoted by its operations worldwide.

2012 has been called the year for sustainable energy access for all by the United Nations. It is also the anniversary year of the Earth Summit at Rio, twenty years ago, when sustainable development was put on top of the international agenda. We have made significant progress since then, but much remains to be done, both in greening our economies and pursuing efforts in reducing poverty. GDF SUEZ is deeply involved in these challenges and is aligned with the major goals of the forthcoming United Nations sustainable development conference, Rio+20, of building a greener and more responsible economy and achieving better access to sustainable energy for poor populations, while satisfying its shareholders as a sustainable company from an economic standpoint.

Innovative solutions for energy efficiency

At GDF SUEZ, we have been active as a sustainable group for many years. We have developed a substantial renewable energy capacity, both in Europe and abroad. Additionally, energy efficiency is the main market of one of our six business lines and is also on top of the agenda for the other five. Our research and development teams work on the deployment of concrete solutions in smart grids, CCS and alternative energy sources. Our teams design innovative solutions for the smart city and for the companies of tomorrow, integrating sustainable development at the core of our commercial offers and our dialogue with stakeholders.

Cana Brava hydro power plant


Sustainable energy access for all

The Group has developed a special program aiming at promoting such social business initiatives in the field of sustainable energy access for all. Named “GDF SUEZ Rassembleurs d’Energies” [Energy Gatherers], this initiative provides technical and financial support for projects that promote access to sustainable energy for disadvantaged populations throughout the world. The Group’s aim is to capitalize on this dynamic to foster economic and social development of isolated settlements and regions and reduce energy poverty for low-income customers.

Incentives to renewable resources

GDF SUEZ has developed a substantial renewable energy capacity in the countries where it is installed. For instance, in Brazil, 84% of our installed capacity comes from clean, renewable and low GHG emission sources. GDF SUEZ is the largest private power producer in the country, managing and operating 8,806 MW of installed capacity in 22 power plants, mostly hydro power plants. Two other hydro power plants are under construction and will add 4,837 MW to the Group’s installed capacity: Jirau HPP (3,750 MW; 50.01% ownership of GDF SUEZ) and Estreito HPP (1,087 MW; 40.07% ownership of GDF SUEZ). Brazil has a unique model of energy production, with 70% of its installed capacity originating from hydropower, and only about 25% of the country’s hydro capacity has been implemented so far. The Group is therefore aligned with this energy generating complex, combining good opportunities with sustainable development.

Besides hydropower, GDF SUEZ also focuses on other renewable energy sources in Brazil. The Group has two biomass thermoelectric plants and two wind power plants. Five wind power plants are now under construction, representing an increase of 145.4 MW of renewable energy to its generating complex. The Group also invests in Research and Development programs related to renewable energy, such as the Photovoltaic Solar Energy Program, which consists of the installation of eight measuring modules with different technologies throughout Brazil, and

the Wave Power Plant Program. The Wave Power Plant is already in test in the North of Brazil and consists of floating sets able to generate electric energy from sea waves, the first prototype of this kind of technology in Latin America.

GDF SUEZ sustainability principles for the development, implementation and operation of hydropower plants in Brazil

GDF SUEZ imposes very high standards for its HPPs in Brazil. Since 2006, 100% of GDF SUEZ´s HPPs are certified with ISO 9001 (O&M quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental management). Estreito and São Salvador, two HPPs of GDF SUEZ in Brazil, were also certified in 2006 by Bureau Veritas (BVQI), an international group specialized in the inspection, analysis, audit and certification of products, infrastructure and management systems, who officially stated the quality of the social environmental programs under implementation for the population affected by the reservoirs of the projects. BVQI was also hired to perform a series of socio-environmental and sustainability audits on Jirau HPP and, in 2010, the hydropower plant was also granted with the Statement of Legal Compliance and Social and Environmental Responsibility Certification, issued by BVQI.

Additionally, GDF SUEZ has a seat at the Board of Directors of the International Hydropower Association (IHA), created under the auspices of the UNESCO in 1995, to continuously improve the standards of the development, implementation and operation of hydropower plants. GDF SUEZ actively participated in the creation of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol from the IHA. This clearly demonstrates a true commitment to responsible development, going far beyond the rigor of legal compliance. Jirau HPP will start an official assessment using the Protocol shortly.

Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ’s subsidiary responsible for the operation of its plants in Brazil, has been part of the Brazilian Stock Exchange’s Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) since 2006, which consists of companies with a recognized commitment to social responsibility and business sustainability.

Beberibe wind power plant

ISE comprises companies with a recognized commitment to social responsibility and business sustainability.

100%of GDF SUEZ´s HPPs are certified with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.


GDF SUEZ in BrazilGDF SUEZ has a strong presence in Brazil. With operations for more than 50 years now, the Group is the first private energy producer in the country, responsible for 7% of its total installed capacity.

GDF SUEZ develops four main activities in Brazil:

Production and Sale of PowerIn 1998, the Brazilian government decided

to privatize Gerasul, its power generator in southern Brazil. Bought by GDF SUEZ, Gerasul was renamed Tractebel Energia. Nowadays, Tractebel Energia manages for GDF SUEZ the production and sale of energy in the Brazilian market. Through its 68.7% holding in Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ is today the first private energy producer in the country, operating an installed capacity of 8.806 MW with 22 plants throughout Brazil, of which 84% comes from renewable sources. The Group has more than 100 industrial customers and a staff of about 1,700 people.

A strategy of dynamic growth, notably in the green economy

With an expected growth in the energy demand of 5% per year until 2015, Brazil

should develop about 4,500 MW of installed capacity each year. In this context, GDF SUEZ pursues a profitable and lasting development track record in the country through new hydropower projects and other alternative renewable and clean sources such as biomass and wind power.

HydroMost of the installed capacity of GDF SUEZ

in Brazil comes from hydropower. The Group operates in the country 11 hydropower plants with a total installed capacity of 6,250 MW. Two other hydropower plants are under construction and will add 4,837 MW to the Group’s installed capacity:

• Jirau (3,750 MW): the most important infrastructure project in construction in the country. In May 2008, a consortium led by GDF SUEZ won a 35 years concession to build and explore the Jirau HPP, in the Madeira River, in the state of Rondônia. The construction started in November 2008.

Machadinho and Jirau hydro power plants and Pedra do Sal wind power plant


The plant is expected to start operating in 2013 and to be in full operation in 2015.

• Estreito (1,087 MW): In 2002, GDF SUEZ won a 35-years concession to build the Estreito HPP, in the Tocantins River, between the states of Maranhão and Tocantins. The construction started in 2007. The plant is already in commercial operation and will be officially inaugurated in the second halfof 2012.

BiomassIn partnership with Açucar Guarani, the third

largest sugar cane producer in Brazil, Tractebel Energia owns and operates a thermal plant of 33 MW (Andrade) using the biomass of sugar cane, in the State of São Paulo. The Company also owns and operates a biomass plant using wood waste, Lages (28 MW), in the State of Santa Catarina.

Wind GDF SUEZ also invests in wind power

plants in the Northeast of Brazil, where it has two wind farm plants, Beberibe, in the State of Ceará (26 MW) and Pedra do Sal in Piauí (18 MW), and where five other plants are now under construction (145.4 MW).

Project Engineering and StudyThe Group also has an important position

in the engineering sector in Brazil. Tractebel Engineering is the third largest hydro and thermal engineering company and the second largest company in electrical equipment in the country, where it has a staff of more than 700 employees. The Company is systematically consulted by the Group to evaluate potential sites for project development.

In Brazil, Tractebel Engineering is represented by Leme Engenharia, its subsidiary, one of the main engineering consultancy companies in Latin America. Leme Engenharia manages and implements engineering projects in the hydroelectricity, electricity transmission systems, thermal energy production fields and urban infrastructure studies.

Water TreatmentControlled by SUEZ Environnement,

Degrémont has among its main activities the production of drinking water from groundwater or surface water, the desalination of seawater and the treatment of sewage and sludge.

Degrémont was the first company of GDF SUEZ to be implemented in Brazil, in 1957. With headquarters in São Paulo, the company is responsible for the projection, construction, financing and operation of water treatment plants, as well as the transfer of technology from abroad to Brazil.

Electronic SecurityINEO is a leading actor in electrical

engineering, information and communications systems and related services. The Company engages in design and maintenance projects relating to industrial and tertiary electrical installations, energy networks, public lighting, transport and telecommunications infrastructures, global security, energy production, information systems and outsourcing.

INEO is part of GDF SUEZ Energy Services, one of the leading energy-specialists in the world, with a staff of 76,000 people. The Company is based in Paris, France.

In Brazil, INEO concluded its acquisition process of the company TELCA2000 on December 2011. With headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, TELCA2000 was created 10 years ago and counts today more than 80 employees. As an integrator of security and communications systems, it now makes more than half of its revenues in the oil & gas market. With TELCA2000, INEO aims to position itself as the benchmark for integrating new information and communications technologies and to promote innovative solutions with a strong local content, particularly in the sectors of oil & gas, aeronautics, smart cities and critical sites.

Osório hydro power plant

11hydro power plants operated by GDF SUEZ group in Brazil.


GDF SUEZ in Brazil

São Paulo

Hydro power plants under construction

Thermal plants

Wind power plants

Wind power plants under construction

EnvironmentWater treatment

Hydro power plants

Thermal biomass plants


Gdf SuEz, partnering Brazilians in their daily lives


Beyond Business Given the impact of its major infrastructure projects on nature and local community life, Gdf SuEz developed a whole area of expertise in providing social and environmental support around its projects.

A hallmark of GDF SUEZ is the way in which it actively engages with communities that are affected by its projects. Beyond complying with social and environmental legislation that apply to its activities, the Group provides actual material and human support to the populations with which it interacts.

In Brazil, a country that currently uses only about 25% of its enormous hydroelectric resources, dam construction undeniably has an effect on the environment and on local community life. Brazil has developed regulatory and institutional systems for protecting people and nature, but new hydroelectric power plants are being built in increasingly remote areas where the local people have but very little access to the government’s social infrastructures. In these unassisted regions of the country, the hydropower plants are vectors of social, environmental and economic development, with a role that goes beyond energy generation.

In Jirau hydro power plant for instance, in the State of Rondônia, 33 socio-economic and physic-biotic programs determined by the Brazilian Environmental Agency IBAMA are being implemented and listed in the environmental license, with a cost of 520 million Euros. Beyond these mandatory programs, the Group also develops several voluntary social programs in the region, many with reputable

The Familiar Fish Raising Associated with Organic Agriculture Program

The voluntary construction of Nova Mutum Paraná


international NGOs, such as INMED and Instituto Pro Natura.

The voluntary construction of Nova Mutum Paraná provides a particularly compelling example of this policy. The families from the very poor Mutum Paraná community, whose village was located on the perimeter of the reservoir of Jirau HPP, a poor region with

The voluntary construction of Nova Mutum Paraná

The Familiar Fish Raising Associated with Organic Agriculture Program

A first project has been approved in 2010 and is now under test – “The Familiar Fish Raising Associated with Organic Agriculture Program”, already benefiting 50 families with professional qualification and economic independence.

Similarly, one of the key concerns of GDF SUEZ Brasil in building the Estreito Hydro Power Plant, in the state of Tocantins is to preserve the local culture and encourage sustainable development in the region. All the social and environmental programs being carried out to manage the impact of the Estreito dam represent a total budget of 130 million Euros. These programs cover a broad range of initiatives. Support is being provided, for instance, to Palmatuba Babaçu Coconut Breakers, which use the shell of babaçu coconuts to produce craft objects such as braids, earrings, key fobs, towel hangers, and other items.

Programs to create economic development in the region

economic and sanitary indexes below the Brazilian average, were relocated to the new town built by the project. Nova Mutum Paraná is a complete city with 1,600 houses and all facilities: streets, housing, schools, bus station, police station, town hall, stores and infrastructures, enabling families to have a better quality of life.

The programs, in partnership with the french-Brazilian NGO instituto Pro Natura, aim to identify and implement self-sustainable micro economies for the population around the reservoir of Jirau HPP.

Rural producer


Healthy Children, Healthy Future

Another voluntary work developed by GDF SUEZ Brasil in the region is the social program “Healthy Children, Healthy Future”, sponsored by the GDF SUEZ Foundation and implemented by the NGO Inmed in the 12 municipalities around the reservoir of Estreito HPP. The program aims to improve the low health indexes of the children of these municipalities, where the population doesn’t have access to basic services. The region has, for instance, the largest malnutrition index among children in the country, around 30%, the double of the national average.

The program consists of treating intestinal parasites and nutritional deficiencies as well as teaching the children and their family healthier habits. Its main goal is to help improve people’s health and living standards by using children as relays for raising the consciousness of their families and communities about health care, personal hygiene, household waste collection and water management. In this way, children are becoming “agents of change”.

The Program also involves the production of school gardens and a better access to drinking water through a method of solar filtration of the water. Since 2009, 15 thousand children at school age were already benefiting from better health indexes. The index of anemic children fell from 53.4% to 7.9%. The parasitological

"Healthy Children, Healthy Future" program

LIF award

incidence in the group also decreased significantly, from 55.57% to 4.31%.

The program was recognized on May 2012 by the France-Brazil Chamber of Commerce with the granting of the XI LIF Sustainability Award, which aims to encourage companies to adopt responsible practices and sustainable management. The award was given during the IV Sustainability Forum of the Chamber of Commerce, event organized by the French companies in Brazil to discuss the main subjects around the Rio +20 Summit.

The Program “Healthy Children, Healthy Future” is currently being set up in the state of Rondônia, in Porto Velho, where Jirau HPP is being built. More than 5,000 children from 11 public schools are already benefiting from it.

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"Healthy Children, Healthy Future" is a project

supported by


Tractebel Energia, GDF SUEZ Group, an ecologically social responsible company

Tractebel Energia, a GDF SUEZ subsidiary, is the country’s leading private generator of electricity, responsible for 7% of the power generation market in Brazil. Headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Tractebel Engenharia operates 22 power plants in the country, of which more than 80% are hydropower. The Company has shown a remarkable growth in its electricity generation capacity, growing from 3,719 MW in 1998 to 6,908 MW in 2011.

With approximately 1,000 employees and more than 100 industrial customers, Tractebel Energia’s HPPs are certified with ISO 9001 (O&M quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental management). Additionally, Tractebel Energia has been part of the Brazilian Stock Exchange’s Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) since 2006, which comprises companies with a recognized commitment to social responsibility and business sustainability.

Tractebel Energia creates initiatives that protect the environment and foster good relations with local governments and communities. The company’s social initiatives focus on improving the quality of life of children living in the poor neighborhoods surrounding its production facilities and headquarters. Tractebel Energia initiates and supports activities related, among other things, to the education, wellbeing and legal rights of children and teenagers. It also encourages job creation and income for families, fights child labor and promotes cultural and sports activities.

By sponsoring local associations, municipal governments and public agencies, Tractebel Energia actively works to protect the environment in regions where it develops its activities, in particular restoring denuded and eroded areas through reforestation.

Visit to the plants


Projects supported by Tractebel Energia

Project of Spring Preservation

Tractebel Energia develops an environmental program focused on environmental education, reforestation of degraded areas, ecological awareness and rationalization of natural resources. In the area around the Salto Santiago Hydro Power Plant for instance, a program developed in partnership with the NGO Casa Familiar Rural, is being implemented to preserve 300 springs, improving the water quality of the region and improving the wellbeing of the 300 families who live there. Programs of spring preservation are also being implemented in other regions, such as Jorge Lacerda Thermo Power Complex and, in partnership with the Consorcium Machadinho and the Alcoa Institute, in the region of Machadinho Hydro Power Plant.

Involving a community in preserving native species of the Brazilian Cerrado

In 2009, Tractebel Energia commissioned the São Salvador Hydro Power Plant, in Tocantins, and the company established 35 environmental programs for the region. One of them was the establishment of a “forest nursery” aimed to involving the local communities in preserving regional plant species affected by the project, and therefore helping to protect the vast Brazilian “Cerrado” savanna, one of the most biologically diverse and threatened areas of the planet.

Planting of seedlings

Another initiative is the planting, directly or by the donation of seedlings, of more than 300 thousand trees a year. In 2011, 386,643 units of seedlings were planted through this intiative.

Visits to the plants

Tractebel Energia also develops programs of environmental education and visits to the plants. In 2011, 86,500 people, mainly students, participated in this program.

Center for Culture and Sustainability Entre Rios do Sul

Tractebel Energia built the Center for Culture and Sustainability “Entre Rios do Sul”, focused on preserving the local culture. Inaugurated in July 2011, the Center has 1,075 square feet and consists of a multipurpose auditorium, library and classrooms. The project presents a series of innovations related to the practice of corporate social responsibility and has improved the access to culture in the region. Since the beginning of its activities, the Center received about 17 thousand people – an average of 2,420 visitors per month. Access to the only theater and the only public library of the region, professional training courses, art workshops and social and digital inclusion programs are great catalysts of the success of the enterprise.

Four other cultural centers are being implemented by the Company: Alto Bela Vista Cultural Center, in Santa Catarina, near Itá HPP (expected to open in August 2012); Jorge Lacerda Environmental Park Cultural Center, near Jorge Lacerda thermo power complex (opening in March 2013) and Quedas do Iguaçu Cultural Center, near Salto Osório HPP, in Paraná (expected to open in August 2013).

"Tractebel Energia creates initiatives that protect the environment and foster good relations with local governments and communities."

Planting of seedlings


Project Guardiões

The Program “Guardiões” supports and houses children and adolescents who are victims of violence, abuse and sexual exploitation, aiming to guarantee their basic rights. The program´s main goal is to qualify women leaders of communities where the indices of domestic violence are extremely high as well as teachers from public schools, in order to enable them to identify traces of domestic violence and take possible action.

Young Worker Program

This program offers to 15 to 18-year-olds from disadvantaged families the opportunity to have a 20-hour-per-week job. In addition to their wages, the young workers also receive meal vouchers and public transportation passes. They are also covered by personal accident insurance and receive assistance for dental care. In return, they must do well in school. Tractebel Energia offers 49 permanent positions under this program in which 384 young people have participated since it was created in 1998.

Program Saúde da Criança

“Saúde da Criança” (Child Health) is a social program that promotes the self-sufficiency of families with children at social risk, referred by public health units. The NGO “Saúde da Criança” was elected by the Global Journal of Switzerland, as the best Brazilian Social Organization and is in 38th position among the hundred best world´s NGOs.

The Program’s methodology is based on the understanding that children cannot be discharged from hospital without first ascertaining what conditions await them at home. Extreme poverty and the inability to carry on treatment are two factors that increase the risk of children relapsing and consequently returning to the hospitals. The program developed and implemented a Family Action Plan, designed to break the vicious circle of poverty-illness-hospitalization-discharge-rehospitalization-death.

"Saúde da criança" program

"Saúde da criança" program

The Young Worker program


LEME Engenharia, helping needy populations

LEME Engenharia is the consulting and studies subsidiary of Tractebel Engineering, one of the main engineering consultancy companies in the world, with more than 100 years of expertise in energy and infrastructure projects. Its services cover the whole lifecycle of these projects, from feasibility studies to decommissioning. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, and with offices in 12 countries and projects in over 80, Tractebel Engineering employs around 3,300 people.

LEME Engenharia manages and implements engineering projects in hydro power, electricity transmission systems, thermal energy production fields and urban infrastructure studies. LEME is also a consultant to the nuclear sector and has expanded its operations into engineering consultancy for the natural gas industry, renewable energy and ports and hydroways.

In addition to its offices in Brazil (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Florianópolis, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo), LEME has regional offices in Panama and Chile and is developing activities in other Latin American countries, such as Equador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Argentina.

In Brazil, LEME Engenharia has been focusing on the contribution to major social matters.

Serviço Voluntário de Assistência Social (SERVAS) is a nonprofit social assistance

association based in Belo Horizonte. It designs, promotes and carries out social initiatives in the state of Minas Gerais. LEME Engenharia provides the association with a planning and management expert who coordinates social programs devoted to children, youth, and the fight against malnutrition.

Associação Mineira de Reabilitação (AMR), also based in Belo Horizonte, cares for more than 400 children suffering from congenital diseases, cerebral palsy, syndromes, microcephaly, mental retardation, brachial and obstetric paralysis, and other cerebral pathologies. LEME Engenharia provides financial support for physical and neurological treatment programs for the children. Recently, the company also provided AMR studies and designs to revamp the electrical installations and is now going to support its construction, through the GDF SUEZ Foundation.

In January 2011, the state of Rio de Janeiro was hit by severe rains that caused flooding and landslides, leaving thousands of homeless people. LEME Engenharia supported the reconstruction of the most affected areas providing Nova Friburgo Municipality the consulting of two geologists who were responsible for the geological risks mapping.

"Centro solidário Felixlândia"

"Associação Mineira de Reabilitação" is

a project supported by

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Degrémont, with “Arca do Saber” in the heart of a Brazilian favela

Degrémont, a subsidiary of SUEZ Environnement, is involved in the production of drinking water from groundwater or surface water in industrialized countries and the developing world. Its activities also include the desalination of seawater for use either as drinking water or in irrigation. In all cases, the water it produces is expected to meet the regulatory standards in operation in the relevant country. The company is also involved in the treatment of sewage and sludge, which is a growing problem for urban areas in particular. Most wastewater is treated for use in irrigation or in industrial cooling systems.

Degrémont estimates that 1 billion people are served by its 10,000 facilities around the world. These include 3,000 drinking water plants, 250 desalination plants and 2,500 sewage treatment plants with the capacity to recycle 2.4 million cubic meters per day.

Degrémont is a company well known throughout the world for its technical expertise in water treatment. The company has obtained the Good Corporation Certification, a responsible business practice assessment system looking at the way an organization is managed in relation to its employees, its customers, its suppliers, its shareholders, the environment and even its contribution to the community. The Company employs over 4,600 people in 70 countries.

Degrémont operates in Brazil since 1957, and most of its revenues are in the industry sector (mainly Oil, Pulp & Paper) and in the municipal market. Degrémont achieved Manaus flotation station, which is a world reference in that field, and has actively participated in the PPP model definition (in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Espírito Santo and Rio Grande do Norte).

Arca do Saber


In the social field, Degrémont is supporting the French-Brazilian association “Arca do Saber”

“Arca do Saber”, a French-Brazilian NGO founded in 2001, manages an Educational and Cultural Center in the Favela Vila Prudente, in the city of São Paulo. Today it offers educational and social activities to more than 50 children and teenagers aged 7-15. It employs about 13 people, most of them from the Favela.

In 2005, the association also created a handicraft workshop, where 20 mothers who have their children in the Cultural Center, had the chance to work. This activity offers them a source of income and social recognition.

“Arca do Saber” is able to attend to 120 children and has its own facilities, with a coffee shop, a library, a computer center, four classrooms, a playground and two rooms reserved as the artisan’s studio.

Recently, “Arca do Saber”, supported by Degrémont Brazil, was rewarded by SUEZ Environnement. It benefited from a donation of €9,959, to be invested in the “Suçuarana” Project, which aims to prepare young people for the market with catch-up classes, access to library and computer room, beside development of know-be and know-how competences applicable to the market, avoiding the risk of marginalization of the youngsters and social exclusion.

Degrémont supports the association in several ways:

• Financial support for training women who work in the handicraft workshop.

• Buying crafts to these women production.

• Taking part in social activities promoted by the association.

• Donating computers to help with the organization of charity fairs, for people who live in the Favela.

120children are attended on "Arca do Saber" facilities

Arca do Saber rewarded by SUEZ Environnement

Arca do Saber


Gdf SuEz fOuNdaTiON in Brazil


The 2011 projects

The GDF SUEZ Corporate Foundation supports projects that on the one hand cover solidarity actions in the fields of health care, education and energy for the benefit of people in precarious situations, and on the other hand concern actions for the environment, protecting biodiversity and ecosystems, fighting against global warming, and developing the housing conditions of tomorrow.

The Foundation is currently supporting three projects in Brazil – two within its “Childhood and Youth” Program and one within its “Living Tomorrow” Program.

The Solidariedade França-Brasil (SFB) Association: Program Quality education: every child’s right

This non-profit association was founded in 1986 by expatriate French citizens and Brazilians. It works with community centers to set up solidarity actions in the fields of education and health care for the benefit of children, adolescents and families in Baixada Fluminense, an extremely poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

For some years now, SFB has expanded its scope of activity by developing a teacher training program whose goal is to improve education quality.

The Foundation has been a Solidariedade França-Brasil partner for more than 10 years. Over time, it has provided assistance to SFB in setting up four child daycare facilities and two community child-development centers located in Baixada Fluminense. Since 2008, it has been supporting the “Quality education: every child’s right” project, which consists of setting up continuous educational courses for teachers.

Today, 5,000 children and teenagers are benefiting from SFB’s actions.

Solidariedade França-Brasil Association

Solidariedade França-Brasil Association

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Pró-Natura Association: Project Super Gardens

Founded after the Earth Summit at Rio in 1992, Pró-Natura International is an NGO of Brazilian origin, located in Rio de Janeiro with a branch office in Paris. It specializes in innovative developments in southern hemisphere countries and has developed an innovative strategy of linking up programs for fighting poverty with protecting biodiversity and fighting climate change.

The “Super Gardens” project developed by Pró-Natura is an example of this commitment. Funded by the Foundation since 2011, the project consists of extremely innovative out-of-soil micro-vegetable gardens, adapted for towns and cities, especially for high-density urban neighborhoods such as Rio’s favelas. They are designed to yield all the essential nutrients required to provide a more nutritious diet to families of 10 people. It enables low-income families to cultivate, at home, vegetables and various condiments that will help to enhance the quality of meals, improve food diversity and have a positive impact on health by fighting malnutrition. The project is implemented in the favelas of the Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro.

INMED Brazil / Healthy Children, Healthy Future Program

The goal of this association, founded in 1995, is to improve community living standards by promoting scientific and educational activities, as well as charity work. The association is particularly involved in the monitoring and prevention of intestinal parasites in children, as well as taking an active part in education and preventive health care.

The Foundation has been supporting INMED Brazil since 2009, especially for its “Healthy Children, Healthy Future” program.

More information on the program on page 12

5,000children and teenagers are benefiting from SFB’s actions

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Two Brazilian employees rewarded in GDF SUEZ Foundation’s first call for projects "Corporate Citizens"

In 2011, the GDF SUEZ Foundation launched a call for projects "Corporate Citizens" with Group employees to promote their commitments to society and voluntary associations, and to support an initiative that corresponds to the Foundation’s two major areas of focus for its action: solidarity and the environment.

Two of the 29 projects of employees involved in voluntary associations that received awards were Brazilian employee projects.

The Energy Solidarity jury’s special “Coup de Coeur” award Marta Jakitsch of Leme Engenharia

for a project to build a new electrical facility designed by volunteer workers from Leme for AMR (“Associaço Minera de Rehabilitaçao” [Minera rehabilitation association]) buildings in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

AMR is an NGO that, since 1967, has been looking after children suffering from birth defects, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Since 2008, Leme has been a partner of AMR on a program for social and professional integration through sport, where volunteers are working during their leisure time to set up an electrical installation.

3rd prize from the Environment jury Cristiane Scholz Faisca Cardoso,

for a sustainable tourism project on Capeche Island off the coast of Florianopois: constructing a “green building”, installating a solar power facility, and setting up a team for raising awareness among tourists about protecting the environment.

Cristiane is President of the Acompeche association, founded in 1940 to protect this site whose geology and biodiversity is exceptional.

Find more about the AMR project on page 16

Marta Jakitsch Cristiane Scholz

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