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something I took part in is now concluded. There is a little bit of me in this vessel,” said Josenilda. Josenilda is a local community member of Ipojuca and had been unemployed for five years until offered a job at EAS. “Over five thousand people had registered. It was a great victory for me to have been selected,” she recalls.

As a 32-year-old mother of two daughters, she was able to enroll her youngest child in a private school. “I can now give my kids everything they need.” A former housewife who had previously been a ceramics factory worker, Josenilda enjoys her job greatly and plans on specializing in the area of welding as a career.

With the trained manpower deficit, EAS has needed to import some specialists in order to fulfill pending or- ders and train local content. A good example is forty year old Euclides Yamaoka, who left Brazil two decades ago to work in Japan, the birthplace of his parents. At that time, Japan was a place of great opportunities.

Twenty years later, he was taking the opposite path and returning to work in major industry in Brazil.

Yamaoka is one of the fifty specialized welders cho- sen from the Japanese shipbuilding industry by Atlân- tico Sul Shipyard (EAS) and who is now working in the company. The planned target is to hire two hundred workers, in a strategy set to add the productivity and dis- cipline of Japanese shipyards to the new Brazilian com- pany. “My expectation is, always, through hard work, to reach the top of the pyramid; this would never been possible in Japan,” said Yamaoka.

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President Lula with welders at EAS shipyard workshop. New jobs created by this impressive new shipbuild- ing facility have helped to change many lives for the better in Brazil. (Photo Ricardo Stuckert)