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Unimed System Sustainability Report
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Volunteer work
Most cooperatives composing the Unimed
System encourage volunteer work among
their publics. The figures show that Unimeds
understand the importance of support, inas-
much as business volunteer work provides
the necessary environment and tools for the
employees to be able to serve with their time
and skills in the community benefit. In 2014,
among the 231 Unimeds reporting the indica-
tor, 62.34% informed that they organize and
encourage their employees’ volunteer work,
while only 6.93% reported not to encourage
volunteer work.
As to employee
participation in volunteer
work programs, the
cooperative:
2013 2014
Does not get involved 7.36% 6.93%
Organizes and encourages 60.17% 62.34%
Supports 60.61% 60.17%
Campaign “Eu Ajudo na Lata”
The campaign “Eu Ajudo na Lata” counted on Unimed cooperatives participation and
collected 15 million aluminum seals along 2014. This campaign appeared after we iden-
tified the need of making available an engagement action which might meet the yearn-
ings and possibility of participation of all employees, even those unable to participate
in a formal volunteer work program. Focused on the incentive to collect aluminum can
seals, the valve collected with the sale is reverted to the purchase or wheelchairs or oth-
er types of items providing accessibility to persons bearing special needs.
Among the Unimed cooperatives which participated in the “Eu Ajudo na Lata”, there are
Unimeds of Alto Vale, Blumenau, Brusque, Campinas, Centro-Oeste Paulista, Chapecó,
Curitiba, Goiânia, Grande Florianópolis, Leste Paulista, Londrina, Metropolitana do
Agreste, Norte Fluminense, Piracicaba, São José dos Campos, São Roque, Vale do Piquiri
and Vales do Taquari e Rio Pardo, besides Federação Minas. In the campaign first edited
in 2013 37 wheelchairs were donated. For further information about the campaign and
the list with some of the benefitted institutions, please access the campaign website:
unimed.me/euajudonalata
15
million
aluminum seals
collected in 2014
and about
50
wheelchairs
donated