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International Paper Institute

[G4-27 /G4-SO1]

Escola Formare Project
IP professionals are volunteer educators in the Project, contributing to the vocational training course for youngsters from low-income families.

One of the main relationship channels between International Paper and its surrounding communities is the International Paper Institute (IIP), founded in 2007 to coordinate the Company's social and environmental responsibility initiatives. The IIP's mission is to be recognized by its stakeholders as a benchmark in this area and for its initiatives to further sustainable competitiveness.

Classified as a Civil Organization of Public Interest ("OSCIP") since November 2009, the Institute has been promoting educational and environmental projects for children and teenagers. This focus was established by management and the employees themselves, who helped define these initiatives through a series of workshops. All the projects are subject to certain criteria (such as scope and replicatory effects), metrics and indicators, which permit the constant monitoring of results and form the basis for forging partnerships and raising funds.

In 2013, the Institute’s investments increased by 13% over the previous year, permitting the creation of a volunteer project for the São Paulo office (Guardians in Action), the launch of the final episode of Biosphere Guardians (Amazon biome) and the holding of another edition of the Itinerant Book City project.

Prior to implementation, the Institute’s projects are subjected to a strategic evaluation by the Advisory Board, comprising in-house and independent members.

Investments:

2011 2012 2013
R$ 896,260.00 R$ 887,583.00 R$ 1,012,190.12

The Board of International Paper Institute is responsible for analyzing the existing projects and viability of other projects in the future. The current projects are analyzed in accordance with four pillars (Innovation, Extension, Franchise and Discontinuity) and the objectives, actions, indicators and partnerships are periodically analyzed.

In 2013, the Institute’s projects involved 496 volunteers and had a direct impact on more than 28,000 people.

Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs

[G4-SO1]

There are structured and continuous programs in all of IP’s surrounding communities.

Programs and Practices Scope Units where the programs and practices were applied in 2013 Number of people affected Results of the program
Escola Formare
(Formare School)		 Vocational training course for youngsters from low-income families, recognized by the Ministry of Education (MEC) Mogi Guaçu, Luiz Antônio, Guatapará and São Simão 151 volunteers Educational development for youngsters in situations of risk, the program acts as an agent for social change and helps participants find their first job. It also helped develop the Company’s surrounding communities.
Programa de Educação Ambiental (PEA)
Environmental Education Program (PEA)		 Helping raise youngsters’ awareness of the importance of environmental issues, replicating initiatives for teachers, parents and the community, relating the sustainability of IP’s business to environmental conservation. Approximately 26 municipalities in the Mogi Guaçu and Luiz Antônio region. 5,736 Raising the awareness of, engaging and educating program participants so that they can be replicators of environmental conservation and sustainable development concepts and best practices.
Programa de Educação Socioambiental (Concursos de Redação e Literário)
Social and Environmental Education Program (Composition and Literary Competitions)		 Helping educate children and teenagers in social responsibility and conserving and restoring green areas in the municipalities where the Company operates. Mogi Guaçu Approximately 10,000 Restoring degraded areas in the municipalities; encouraging reading for pleasure and writing; promoting the ecological awareness of the participants and raising g their awareness of the importance of environmental conservation and expanding relations with the environment.
Cidade do Livro Itinerante
Itinerant Book City		 This project comprises a group of educational activities that allow participants to Interact with the world of books and seeks to encourage reading for pleasure, helping people develop their reading capacity and stressing the importance of books in the social practices of reading. Luiz Antônio 3,436 Encouraging the habit of reading so that children derive pleasure from reading and listening to stories; promoting children’s acquaintance with the world of literature; increasing the literacy level of the participants; and raising awareness of the importance of books in the social practices of reading.
Guardiões do Verde (Green Guardians) Training socially vulnerable youngsters for nursery work Guatapará 36 25,000 seedlings produced and youngsters trained in nursery work, equipping them to enter the job market.
Guardiões das Águas (Water Guardians) - external Water-saving campaign directed to public school students and teachers.  Luiz Antônio, Guatapará, Santa Rosa de Viterbo and São Simão 71 teachers and 1,697 students Saving of 1,724,120 liters of water, and development of 1,777 awareness-raising initiatives.
Guardiões das Águas  - internal Water-saving campaign directed to IP Latam’s employees and service providers.  Luiz Antônio, Mogi Guaçu, Três Lagoas and São Paulo 49 active participants 549,480 liters of water saved in the Company’s three production units, administrative headquarters and forestry unit.

Natureza e Corpo (Nature and the Body)		 To help propagate environmental sustainability practices, encourage the promotion of ecoefficiency initiatives, and disseminate popular usage and customs and reclaim facets of cultural identity in the community schools, as well as plant medicinal herbs. Two schools in the Três Lagoas region 429 (370 students and 59 teachers) Planting of a medicinal herb and aromatics garden in the shape of a human body in the Parque São Carlos school.
Suggested implementation of projects involving the capture of solar energy, the reuse of rainwater, the installation of sensor-equipped faucets and lamps and the introduction of recycling.
Apicultura Solidária (Partnership Beekeeping Project) Created in 2011, this project aims to extend the use of the eucalyptus forests, prioritizing the social and environmental development of IP’s operational areas and generate income for local beekeepers. IP’s Luiz Antônio forestry region  23 beekeepers in four municipalities Production of 5.6 tons of honey and installation of more than 500 bee boxes.
Guardiões em Ação (Guardians in Action) Through internal campaigns, this project encourages everyone to become volunteer activity replicators. IP corporate headquarters and Orsa IP in São Paulo 290 direct beneficiaries and 233 volunteers

Two missions took place in 2013. In the first (Children’s Day Mission), each employee participant took around three children from the Sinhazinha Meirelles Creche to visit the Book City project. In the second (Christmas Mission), each employee sponsored a child. During Christmas week, these children were given a tour of their sponsors’ workplace, as well as a present. So successful were they that the Corporate Christmas Mission was subsequently expanded to the Company’s other units, where all employees could donate toys, which were then delivered to municipal charity organizations by the International Paper Institute.
Guardiões da Biosfera (Biosphere Guardians) Based on the content produced by the “Biosphere Guardians”, an IP project begun in 2005 with the support of the federal government via the Rouanet Law, this program was implemented in the municipalities of Luiz Antonio and Mogi Guaçu. The kit includes a DVD with all the episodes of the series, an almanac with information on the Amazon biome and suggestions for play-based classroom activities. Awareness raising in Luiz Antônio and Mogi Guaçu 141 participants Raising the awareness of municipal public school teachers in order to help them replicate the material in the Biosphere Guardians kit.
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