Social responsibility
Tor Participações /White Solder Group’s culture is concerned about taking care of all stakeholders but in special for the local communities.
This concept assumes that all the impact that we can create on the society starts with our employees promoting on every location that we have operation´s the principles and values lived inside our company.
Social responsibility is something that has always been at the center of our attention and with the Group expansion we try to encourage and promote practices of human conscience in all spheres of the society. Our greatest purpose is to provide day by day for each individual an experience of trust and acceptance, which is the pillar of our structure since the moment of the recruit and selection process, and which continues over the career journey of each professional.
Social Investments
In the city Rincão/SP, APAE began a reform to expand its regional service network and expand the capacity from 50 to 100 children assisted by social services, health and education. However, due to the pandemic, the institution suffered significant losses on fundraising due to the prohibition on events and than they came to the Tor Participações / White Solder Group to ask for help to finish this reform.
APAE´s expectation was to raise approximately R$ 250,000.00 to pay the debt´s contracted in the initial stage of the reform but,when our team analyzed the demands and necessary assistance for this institution, the Group invested R$ 1,500,000.00 that was able not only to pay the original debt but also to build 4 new multifunctional rooms for education and training, reform and adjust the rainwater drainage system, decorate and buy new furniture suitable for the proper care and development of the children,besides a dedicated space for events for future fundraising byAPAE.
Social Investments
Hospital do Amor
Annually the “Hospital do Amor” (before known as Cancer Hospital) performance a beneficent event in Ribeirão Preto/SP to raise funds through the sale of invitations and tables. The event consists of a dinner and concerts by artists who voluntarily dedicate a space in their schedules to support the hospital.
10 years ago, Tor Participações / White Solder Group began your history with “Hospital do Amor” through the acquisition of some invitations andover the years the invitations became some tables allowing the group to make some of them available to employees and companions.
Growing exponentially over the years, the number of tables acquired in 2022 was exactly 50% of the total event with an investment of approximately R$ 300,000.00 and 304 invitations.
With 304 invitations, all the professionals allocated in Ribeirão Preto (White Solder Ribeirão, EcoWhite, WSG, Tor) and Corumbataí (Wire) were invited to participate in the event.
Investimentos Sociais
Sem fronteiras
In the begin of 2021 we started to support the entity “Sem Fronteiras”,located in Ribeirao Preto and which goal to serve children, teenagersand adults with Down Syndrome, offering sports activities, psychosocial care and support to their families for multidisciplinary health care.
The entity demand for our company was to assist families that were in a situation of social vulnerability due to the pandemic period. From the total 40 families assisted by “Sem Fronteiras”, our Group started helping26 with monthly supply of basic food baskets to guarantee essential conditions of sustenance for these people and then be able to go through this period of economic instability more safely.
From July 2022, a monthly donation agreement was celebrated with the destination of R$ 4,000.00 per month for the maintenance of activities performed by “Sem Fronteiras”.
Social Investments
Sociedade Espírita Eurípedes Barsanulfo
At our company in the city of Ariquemes/RO, a very important project was developed in 2021 and is still ongoing. Between the years 2021 and 2022, a total of 1.235 food baskets and 385 gas refills were distributed to needy families supported by the “Sociedade Espírita Eurípedes Barsanulfo”, totaling an allocation of resources of R$ 178,000.00.
Social Investments
TST - Todo Saber Transforma - Tânia Saccoman Torrente
Through a field survey carried out in February 2022, with family visits and questionnaire application on specific neighborhoods in the city ofAriquemes/RO, it was possible to identify how many families experience a situation of social vulnerability in terms of health, social, economic, educational or other emerging factors. An old dream of the matriarch and enhanced by the ideals of the Torrente Family, in that same year the project to design a community center associated with education as fundamental pillars for human development began to take shape. A center for living together and strengthening values began to be conceived by the Group, whose main objective is based on the defense and affirmation of rights and on the development of capacities and potentials through the offer of services and actions that contemplate all life cycles, from day care center to children while others are working, passing through socio-educational workshops in sports,handicrafts, cooking, sweets and others activities required by other groups like parents, women, elderly and teenagers, focusing on achieving emancipatory alternatives to face social vulnerability up to the monitoring of families assisted by the project with social assistants and psychologists besides referral to the social and special protection projects.
It is the idea that through stimulation and guidance, strengthened by encouraging socialization and community coexistence, it is possible to awaken family integration and enhance the ability to facing the social vulnerabilities of the family group, through the development of knowledge and training .
- The construction of the facilities that will shelter the community center and the kindergarten school are budgeted at approximately R$ 12,000,000.00 of which approximately R$ 2,800,000.00 have already been invested. With the project ending in December 2023, we estimate the start of activities for the2024 school year for a maximum teaching capacity of 106 children.
Volunteering
Good vibes! Being in an environment of empathy andwhere solidarity practices are the basis of our daily lives, encourages our people to take this further. In2021, we inaugurated our first volunteer team at theRibeirao Preto, bringing our way of being and thinking to the community.
The engagement of our volunteers in the first year in which theGroup promoted actions with direct participation in the community surprised everyone.
It was possible to measure how widespread our culture focused on social responsibility is among all employees, and this made our donations delivery day for the institutions an event in which everyone was anxious to participate. In 2022, the team grew considerably so we were able to expand our activities, attending different demands of the community.
Volunteering in specific activities
In addition to major projects, Ribeirão Preto unit, together with CIPA (employees internal commission for health and safety), realized occasional donations during the years 2021 and 2022, helping several other entities in the city with food, hygiene and cleaning products, clothing’s, toys, and others. Some of the entities assisted were: FRASOL– Fraternidade Solidária São Francisco de Assis, Cantinho do Céu, Lar dos Cegos, CARIB and SCFV Núcleio Adão do Carmo Leonel.
