DuPont School Project brings together students from the municipal network, in Sinop (MT)

The municipal school Uilibaldo Vieira Gobbo, in the municipality of Sinop (MT), received in the last few days another edition of the DuPont Escola Program, carried out by the agricultural inputs distributor Agro Amazônia in partnership with the company DuPont Protection of Crops. On the occasion, companies delivered bicycles to the authors of the best texts and drawings produced by students, based on the theme My Hero, the Farmer, as well as a notebook for school.

A socio-environmental platform program Safety and Health in the Fieldsponsored by DuPont and with national coverage, DuPont Escola is aimed at students and educators in municipal schools. The initiative encourages the appreciation of agriculture and agro-environmental sustainability. The agenda of events covers lectures, debates, exhibitions, thematic video screenings, educational activities and games and competitions from the project's official magazine, called Meu Hérói, o Agricultor.

DuPont's commercial representative, Luiz Rogério Silva, together with the manager of Agro Amazônia, Fabiano de Souza Pereira, coordinated the work carried out in Sinop, for around 190 students in the 4th and 5th years of elementary school.

“It is very gratifying to develop the DuPont Escola project, as in addition to promoting good agricultural practices, in this edition we also managed to secure a scholarship for the student who wrote the best essay, Thais Giovana da Silva Vieira. She will study from the 6th year, until she finishes high school, at a private school in the city of Sinop”, highlights Luiz Rogério Silva.

The socio-environmental platform Safety and Health in the Field It is also made up of four other projects: DuPont Women in the Field, DuPont University, DuPont Correct and Safe Use and DuPont Nature. According to DuPont's general manager of Product Safety and Environment, Felipe Ramos, this set of programs has already benefited more than 1,3 million people in recent years, in the main agricultural regions of Brazil.