Concerned with investing in the sustainability tripod, economic, environmental and social aspects, the Aço Cearense Group created the Aço Cearense Institute (IAC), which acts in a correct and responsible way, aligning its business with a socially engaged management that expands actions to combat poverty and marginalization. For this reason, the IAC sponsors the young karate athlete Jonathan Benvindo who participated, from March 22 to 26, in Caruaru (PE), in a stage of the Brazilian Karate Championship, winning first two places and qualifying for the Pan-American Championship in August in Argentina, and for the Brazilian Championship final in October, in Bahia.
Sponsored by the Aço Cearense Institute since October 2015, the young karate athlete Jonathan Benvindo is 14 years old, he does the 9th high school year at the Nely Caula Public School, located in Caucaia, the city where he lives. He is a student of Associação Escola de Campeões, an institution also supported by IAC, where he does swimming, futsal, theater and guitar.
Jonathan has been a member of the Cearense team for six years, in 2016 he won the 1st place in the Ceará Ranking and the 4th in the Ranking Brazil, where he competes for the category Cadets Karate 14 and 15 years, weight less than 45kg.
