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Forming citizensCreated in 1956, the Foundation expands its operations every year: in the last 28 years itincreased the number of students at its schools from 13 thousand to over 110 thousand.The institution offers quality education free of charge from kindergarten to high school,preliminary and continuing training and technical professional education at thehigh school level in the fields of Information Technology, Electronics, Manufacturing,Management, Farming and Ranching. It also offers distance learning programs for youthand adults through Teleducação and the Escola Virtual Portal.Portal Escola Virtual (Virtual School Portal) serves approximately 150 thousand peopleanually. This type of education offers distance courses via the Internet and partial onsitebasic, professional, youth and adult education courses. The Escola Virtual e-learningportal – www.escolavirtual.org.br – is available to students, alumni, educators andemployees of Fundação Bradesco, as well as people from community and theunemployed planning to obtain a new specialization or job training.Learn more about each educational project at www.fb.org.br.Goals and ObjectivesImprove school performance indicators, always pursuing quality education.Gradually transform schools into a benchmark and a multiplying agent in their communities.Continuously improve the quality of education, operationalexcellence indexes and the student progress indexes.Decrease drop-out and failure rates.Implement another 30 Digital Inclusion Centers (CIDs) nationwide, in partnershipwith British Telecom Global Service (BT), which maintains a global project with Unicefto provide Internet in underprivileged communities of developing countries.Finasa EsportesFinasa E s p o r t e s i s a p rogramthat expresses its support for thedevelopment of citizenship and socialinclusion of children and youth. Duringits 20 years, it has established severalpartnerships, chief among which is thepartnership with the City of Osasco thathelped expand the social scope of theprogram. Through healthy activitiessuch as playing sports like volleyballand basketball, Finasa Esportesdevelops education, health and wellbeingprograms for adolescent girlsFinasa Esportes: 20 years promoting the development ofcitizenship and social inclusion through sports