Literacy Workforce

TUPY and education are inseparable
words. Capacitating people for a job
qualification and the search for
professional excellence are in the
two extremes of a comprehensive
continuous development program
that the company offers to its
employees and, to a certain
extent, to their families. Therefore,
TUPY has visualized, in the Literacy Workforce, a unique opportunity to help people from the community of Joinville take their first steps towards exercising their rights as citizens and to be able to walk on their on later.

The purpose of the Literacy Workforce is to eradicate illiteracy and it has been developed, since 1998, through a partnership with the Joinville City Secretary of Education.

Besides providing all the pedagogical material used by teachers and students, TUPY maintains one employee dedicated to the organization of the program and helps training the teachers, who are all volunteers.

Child Mission


Around 160 children and teenagers from the Boa Vista suburb and from five other suburbs close to Tupy’s headquarters, in Joinville, are assisted by the Child Mission project, carried out by the Lutheran Community in Brazil, more specifically the Cristo Libertador parish. Tupy gives support to the program regularly and a group of employees, voluntarily,  also contributes financially every month besides giving the children special attention at festivities such as Christmas, Easter and Children’s Day.

All children participating are from very low income families and at elevated social risk. Children between three and six years of age stay at the mission facilities for the whole day and are offered activities that boos coordination, besides games and play time. Others, who already go to regular elementary school, come for the other half of the day and receive tutoring for school work, craft classes and lessons to protect nature and notions of how to be good citizens. There is a third group, the teenager group, who attend “capoeira”, theater and sports classes.

Supportive Gymnastics

Life quality is another preoccupation at the
company. The program Supportive
Gymnastics was granted the 2003
Responsible Joinville Award from the
Social Responsibility Nucleus of the
Commercial and Industrial Association.
Tupy chose the program because it is an opportunity to encourage
physical activities in people who cannot afford gym classes or
sports club memberships.

The program was originally destined to housewives of the Boa Vista suburb, where TUPY’s headquarters are located, men and children adhered spontaneously and it was extended to other suburbs nearby.

When Tupy adopted the project, it became responsible for the payment of the monthly salary of a physical education teacher who dedicates a few hours per month reaching out to around 250 people presently. Classes are given twice a week to each group, in eight different premises.

Volunteer Firefighters

An Advanced Unit of the Joinville Fire Department is located next to TUPY’s headquarters in the Boa Vista suburb in order to provide services to the whole region.

At that unit, 50 company employees, members of the company’s fire brigade, also offer volunteer work as firefighters, helping the community.

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