Among the 138 projects invested in the external community performed in 2005, those focused on education, culture, health and sanitation, sports, fighting against hunger and food and environment safety are outstanding, among others.


Education Category

It had total investments of R$ 1.4 million in 2005, with projects that are fully in line with SABESP’s vocation and are, in their majority, intended to children and young audience, students of public and private schools, professors and poor community.

To open the Company’s doors to visitors and transform those opportunities into space for the environmental education was the focus of the projects developed in the greater São Paulo: Showroom that had 7,278 visitors in 2005 and that of Learning in the Cantareira System, which had the attendance of 15,254 people in 423 visits. The same nature of project in the interior and coastal areas of the State of São Paulo, it can be emphasized the visits of schools to SABESP’s treatment stations, which served 64,381 students and professors.

“SABESP nas Escolas” was the focus of projects such as “Futurágua“, “Caracol“, “Colorindo o Amanhã“ and “Água Viva“, among others, that reached 53,296 students and professors.

“SABESP na Comunidade” developed lectures and activities that contributed for the conservation of the water resources and the environment preservation. In addition to this, other projects, such as “A Gota Borralheira”, ”Educando para a Cidadania”, ”Trilhas do Barbosinha e do Purinha” and those of the Environmental Education Centers, served 177,541 people. It may also be emphasized the Program "Minha Cidade Tem SABESP”, the purpose of which is to inform, aware and clarify about the importance of Sabesp’s products and services, besides approximating the Company to the community of its operating area, involving 55,337 people.

Emphasis shall also be given to the projects made available via Internet, such as “Clubinho SABESP”, which has been created with the purpose of creating partners for the cause of water on Earth, which in 2005 reached the goal of 11,000 members, being recognized and awarded by “WWF Brasil Mostra Água para a Vida, Água para Todos: Boas Práticas em Saneamento”.


Culture Category

Focused on general community, SABESP also showed practices of sensitization and incentive to the plurality of the Brazilian culture and to the memory of society. Those were actions that focused the environmental awareness and the sustainable development, either by acting in the physical recovery of theaters, creation of library, preservation of historical and architectural collection and choir, or by the destination of R$ 4.9 million by the tax incentive provided for in the Rouanet Law in 2005, in addition to incentives to Audiovisual production in the amount of R$ 2.6 million.


Category Others

This category comprises several projects, in addition to institutional support, with investments of R$ 3.1 million in 2005. From such amount, it is emphasized the tax incentive to CONDECA - Projeto Envolver, in the amount of R$ 1.7 million.