We operate to collaborate in creating a positive impact on the municipalities and communities with employment opportunities, economic development and social change. Our priority is to hire employees locally and, in the crop year 2019/2020, we employed 10,038 people who contribute to renewing tomorrow through clean renewable energy.
Besides direct employment, we stimulate the local agriculture-based economies by developing local suppliers and service providers, as well as generating revenue for landowners through lease. In the crop year 2019/2020, revenue generated through agricultural partnerships amounted to R$1,215 million, of which R$513 million from agricultural partnerships and R$702 million from supply of sugarcane. This affected 1,121 agricultural partners and 52 sugarcane suppliers.
Additionally, we embrace a participative management model with local communities and governments. We rely on the Social Energy initiative, a Private Social Investment program that defines the guidelines for using financial resources intended for donations and support for social and environmental projects.
In the crop year, the highlight was the Elo com Elas (the Link with Them) project, intended to provide women with professional qualifications to expand the opportunities for women to enter the job market. Undertaken in Nova Alvorada do Sul (MS), it trained 25 women who concluded the agricultural machinery operator course to work in mechanized harvesting and planting.