Sustainability r e p o r t - Sabesp

Sabesp’s contribution to the eight objectivesof the Millennium Development GoalsProjects focused on the poor communities that alleviate hunger and misery. For example:Mãos Solidárias (Solidarity Hands) and Hortas Comunitárias (Community Gardens).Projects to enhance education, for example: Educar Leste (East Educate),facilitating the access to university, and Ensinando a Pescar (Teaching How toFish), which trains plumbers.Non-discriminatory practices, for example, public competitive recruitment process,which create equal job opportunities for male and female professionals.We have in place several Sanitation and Environmental Education projects,contributing to the improvement of hygiene and health conditions, and to decreaseinfant mortality. For example: Clubinho, PURA, Sabesp teaches, and showroom.Jacareí dam.To improve maternal health, we offer our female employees the Baby and PrenatalCare Guide. In addition we grant healthcare benefits through Sabesprev, whichprovides medical care to pregnant women.Social responsibility is our commitment to society. The most significant progressesin 2009 in this field have impacted our relations with stakeholders, our employees,and quality management. To achieve this, many partnerships and studies weremade, in a transparent management, guided by our Code of Ethics and Conduct,in our search for sustainable development and improvement of quality of living.The living examples are the many voluntary adoption of international guidelines,like the UN Global Pact (since 2006), which gathers several world corporatesegments aligning their activities to the following principles: human rights, rightto employment, environmental protection, and the fight against corruption. Wereport our achievements through a Communication on Progress (COP). Sending aCOP is one of the conditions for organizations to remain active in the Pact. Sabespsupports and encourages the weight United Nations objectives, to be achievedby the countries by 2015. These goals were presented in the Declaration of theMillennium to prioritize the resolution of core challenges for world development.Our Corporate Volunteers Program, implemented in 2009, is integrated with ouroverall effort to achieve the eight objectives of the millennium development goals,which will be the background to mobilize and attract volunteer for the Day of theMillennium, to be held in 2010.We promote campaigns for the prevention and eradication of AIDS and, throughthe healthcare plan with Sabesprev, offer medical support to our employees andtheir dependents.Through our Environmental Policy, we ensure that the respect for the environmentand sponsor several environmental projects and actions, such as: Clean Brook,Clean Wave, Frying Oil Recycling Program (PROL), Environmental EducationProgram (PEA), and Keeping an Eye on the Atlantic Forest.In the environmental sustainability field, the UN established as a goal for 2015 toreduce by half the number of people without access to drinking water and basicsanitation services. We will go beyond that, fast pacing towards the provision ofuniversal of services in the municipalities where we operate.We also have institutional support for the sustainable development in associationwith NGOs, Cities Governments, schools, and other segments where weoperate. This has resulted in, for example, to the sustainability hearings and thecosponsoring of the Instituto Criança Cidadã (Child Citizen Institute).We report below the major actions and activities developed in the SocialResponsibility field, which confirm our commitment to society sustainability anddevelopment.120 Relatório de Sustentabilidade 2009 121