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Aerial View of Suape complex with EAS shipyard at center and Suape port at bottom. (Photo EAS)

EAS shipyard 3D (Illustration courtesy of Estaleiro Atlântico Sul) workforce, Atlântico Sul Shipyard is con- structing a modern residential condo- minium with 1,500 homes for the employees, in the city of Ipojuca. An ed- ucational program has also been started aiming to improve the quality of educa- tion at the local public schools, in order for elementary and high-school students in Ipojuca to be better prepared to cope with the new economic development sce- nario of Pernambuco and to have a better chance of entering the competitive work market upon graduation. “Atlântico Sul

Shipyard has developed a range of social projects to benefit the local communities, bringing them new forms of income, ed- ucation and growth” said Menezes.

Solidary Life is a voluntary program where workers of the Atlântico Sul Ship- yard and the local communities engage in social actions, such as renovating and increasing educational levels of the

Aníbal Cardoso State School in Ipojuca, the objectives of the program being to promote solidarity, citizenship, social in- clusion and ethics in the local society.

The Tatuoca program is focused on the community living at the Tatuoca Island, located near the Atlântico Sul Shipyard.

This social program is developing several actions with the objective of improving the educational level of this community, giving them the means to join the formal labor market and provide them with in- come generation alternatives. Thirty five community members have already been hired to work at the shipyard and this number is expected to grow.

The Waves of Reading program works as an itinerant library aiming at develop- ing the reading skills among workers of the Atlântico Sul Shipyard, and the local community of Tatuoca Island. The library collection comes from books donated by

Atlântico Sul Shipyard´s own employees.

Birthplace of Talents is what is being called the newly restored and renovated old Municipal Slaughterhouse, which is