OREANDA-NEWS. February 24, 2016. Ford Brazil holds one of the main environmental educational programs of Bahia state for students in Camacari plant where EcoSport and Ka are currently produced. In 2015, this program had a participation record of 40 schools with 1,294 students and 122 teachers who visited Ford Environmental Center weekly.

They received lessons about the environment, sustainable development, conscious consumption, waste collection and recycling.  They also learned about composting, breeding earthworms and participated of craft workshops with recycling materials. The teachers, then, received a book with a step-by-step process to implement sustainable practices at schools. 

The environmental education program, supported by Ford Fund, is part of the company’s Social Responsibility actions. It has served about 3.000 participants already, encouraging them to act as multipliers of environmental practices on a daily basis.