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Private Sector Volunteers Association (ÖSGD) named Ocean Volunteers Platform the most successful volunteering platform in 2019.

The Borusan Ocean Volunteers platform was founded in 2008 to enable Borusan staff members to channel their knowledge and skills to voluntary social responsibility projects in education, culture and arts, environment, and human rights. In 2020, over 1,000 volunteers took part in various projects, while Borusan staff volunteered for 16,500 hours in 40 projects in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Borusan Ocean Volunteers platform often collaborates with nongovernmental organizations on various volunteering initiatives. These include book donation campaigns, shoreline, and sea cleaning events, book reading for the visually impaired, and mentoring programs.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Borusan Ocean Volunteers voluntarily shared their competencies online so as to show solidarity with employees. Events and workshops organized by volunteers included telling fairy tales, photography, and book reading gatherings. Participants donated books and online education packages to the project, #EducationOnTheHanger.

Private Sector Volunteers Association (ÖSGD) named Ocean Volunteers Platform the most successful volunteering platform in 2019.

Borusan Ocean Volunteers collaborate with the Aegean Shared Ideas Association (EFODER) for the past two years to feed disabled animals, clean their shelters and undertake efforts to get them adopted. Volunteers have not forgotten little companions during the pandemic, either: A campaign was launched to send dry food to animals and hundreds of Borusan staff supported the campaign to make sure animals did not feel abandoned.

Volunteering Borusan staff donated the belongings they no longer used for sale at the "Auction for Benevolence.” Belongings donated have been put on auction on Borusan Araç İhale's online auction system. Volunteers who purchased these belongings made the payment to the Lokman Hekim Health Foundation and to the charity accounts of the Koruncuk Foundation. This helped recover the items no longer used by Borusan staff in the hands of their new owners and raise new sources for "benevolence.”

16.500 hours of volunteerism

Borusan employees also volunteered for 16,500 hours in 40 projects in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Borusan Ocean Volunteers voluntarily shared their competencies online so as to show solidarity with employees.