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Programme Eradication
of Child Labour (PETI), launched in 1996, is carried out in partnership
with the States, municipalities and civil society, and it consists
of sending back to school all children who, submitted to work deemed
painful, have their development jeopardised.
For this purpose, the
Programme pays families a scholarship, to compensate for the income
formerly generated by the children. As a counterpart, school attendance
is mandatory.
Countinuous Benefit
Delivery
The Continuous Benefit
Delivery is a social-service programme that consists of the monthly
payment of one minimal wage to elderly people (above the age of
67) and to the disabled having family incomes below 1/4 of the minimal
wage.
This benefit started
being paid in 1996, and currently represents an annual expenditure
of R$ 1.5 billion, funded by the National Fund for Social Services.
PRIVATE
INITIATIVE AND SOCIAL ACTIONS
Recente
pesquisa realizada pelo IPEA sobre Ação Social das Empresas na região
Sudeste, de março de 2000, registra importantes ações sociais do
setor privado para a comunidade.
A recent survey carried
out by IPEA on the Social Action of Enterprises in the South-East
Region, in March, 2000, shows important social actions by the private
sector in favour of the community.
According to the view
that a social-development policy requires the participation of new
players, it has been noticed that private-sector enterprises and
organisations have been mobilising an increasing volume of funds
meant for social initiatives, with actions that break the dichotomy
between public and private endeavours and thus bring about a non-state
public sphere.
Amongst 445 thousand
enterprises included in the survey, 67% carry out some sort of social
activity in favour of the community. There are 300 thousand companies
in the South-East developing social actions, including both small
occasional efforts and large projects. Around 57% of enterprises
declare to carry out such actions in a usual manner.
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