iFood has just released its first ESG report, which highlights the main advances in the company's public commitments in Education, Environment and Inclusion, whether in partnership with the private sector or Non-Governmental Organizations.
The Impact Report brings together the results of iFood programs that began in March 2021, when the company launched the EMI area – Education, Environment and Inclusion – and sealed public commitments supported by 4 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations that made the most sense for your business at that time. Zero hunger and sustainable agriculture (SDG 2), Quality education (SDG 4); Gender equality (SDG 5) and Action against global climate change (SDG 13) were the objectives chosen and included in the company's day-to-day guidelines.
The document is available in PDF versions complete It is summarized. With the theme of education, the iFood News opens a series of weekly reports that will reveal the social and environmental impact initiatives promoted by iFood and what their results were in 2021 and 2022 — the next ones will delve deeper into topics such as sustainability and diversity and inclusion.
Supporting quality education, which allows people to have decent work and social inequality to be reduced, is one of the purposes of iFood, which is in line with the objectives of the UN. Data from the Report shows that, in education, more than 200 thousand Brazilians were impacted by training programs, including 11 thousand scholarships for delivery drivers and underrepresented groups in civil society, such as women and black people; and 140 thousand certificates issued.
“Education is the bridge that leads people to a better future. Today we have serious problems, such as the 70 million Brazilians who did not finish high school and the lack of technology professionals”, says Luanna Luna, education manager at iFood. “Only education allows people to access new knowledge and improve their lives.”
But how is iFood moving to generate this significant impact on the education of children, young people, delivery partners — and those who dream of working with technology? The infographic below details the commitments made by the company until 2025, and how it is evolving and innovating in its initiatives to bring good results for society as a whole in the areas of education, environment and inclusion. Check out!
In the field of education, iFood's commitments, until 2025, are:
– Train and employ 25 thousand people in groups that currently have low income and are underrepresented in the technology area;
– Qualify more than 5 million people for the work of the future and entrepreneurship;
– Impact 5 million people by encouraging basic education
“The commitments were super important to inspire and guide us, to focus on the path we were pursuing. As a digital company, we have a role in digital literacy. “We look, above all, at inclusion and social development through education with a focus on technology, offering access, opportunity and income”, says Luanna.
To get there, iFood is promoting actions such as:
Tech Power
It is a platform that offers free courses, scholarships for technology training and a track focused on employability. In 2021, more than 28 thousand people signed up for the program — 96% come from underrepresented profiles in technology and 80% are low-income.
More than 6,000 scholarships were granted and 500 people were employed, 67 of them at iFood itself. One of these recent hires is Rebeca Freitas, now a software engineer at iFood. “I have always loved technology, but I had many obstacles on this journey. I got a scholarship and was able to make this dream come true,” she says. Recognition is also coming from abroad: in 2022, the Potência Tech received the Notable CNN Brasil Award.
My High School Diploma
In partnership with Descomplica and Termine Suas Estudos, iFood offers scholarships for the preparatory course for Encceja (National Examination for Certification of Skills for Young People and Adults), an exam that gives those who pass a certificate of completion of high school.
This is an important issue because 27% of the couriers registered on the platform did not complete high school. More than five thousand people signed up to win a scholarship, like Marcelo Andrade, who today dreams of becoming a lawyer.
iFood Takes Off
Platform that promotes continuous training for delivery people, restaurants and markets with classes on topics such as entrepreneurship, team management, creativity, digital marketing, traffic safety and personal finances.
More than 200,000 partners have already taken one of the more than one hundred courses available — in the end, more than 140,000 certificates were issued. Susana Santos, for example, started taking Decola courses as soon as she joined iFood. As a result, their in-app sales increased from R$121 to R$1,200 per month. “My dream is to grow more and more
more and be able to help other women”, she says.
Tech Marathon
iFood gave its support to the first Brazilian technology marathon, a competition between ninth grade and high school schools across Brazil, public or private, in which students learn about technology and are challenged to take the lead in their life projects. Marathon Tech's proposal is to introduce young people to the world of technology and develop, with short classes, logical and computational thinking.
Tech Movement
In partnership with 19 other companies, iFood raised more than R$ 5 million on this private social investment platform in education that will invest R$ 100 million, by 2025, in projects that accelerate the training and employability of young people in technology.
Investment in basic education
In addition to being one of the maintainers of the All for Education (which aims to change the quality of basic education in Brazil), iFood sponsored the first STEAM training itinerary, an instrument to support high school students and teachers in teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. The material was produced and reviewed by the Reúna Institute, adapting to the standards of the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC).
