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[SOCIAL PERFORMANCE] CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Borusan Holding

Micro Finance Branches

In 2009, we opened our first Micro Finance Branch in Afyonkarahisar, the birth place of
our founder and honorary president Asım Kocabıyık, in order to realize our goal to support
women entrepreneurs. The second Micro Finance Branch is opened in 2013 in Bursa,
Gemlik where Borusan Holding owns a large industrial campus including a port. To date,
we provided TRY 5.5 million loans to women entrepreneurs through both Micro Finance
branches to support them for establishing and developing their own businesses. In 2016,
number of women entrepreneurs who received micro finance loans reached 2,800.

Let’s Code, Girls!

Project

Borusan launched the Let’s Code, Girls! proj- of electronics, gaming, animation and story
ect to enable girls to develop computer skills programming, and simple robot design using
compatible with the 21st century information basic electronic modules and 3-D printing in-
technology era and to take steps towards a tegration. The girls came up with interesting
future of equality. and creative projects as a result of their train-
ing. A Corporate Volunteering Initiative:
The project, conducted in March 2016 at the The Borusan Ocean Volunteers Platform
Borusan Gemlik campus, targeted plant em- The project was extended to include the chil-
ployees’ girls aged between 7 and 14. In the dren of employees at the Borusan plants in
first phase, the project taught 60 girls how Sefaköy and Halkalı and an additional 90 girls
to code with classes in the fundamentals aged between 7 and 14 received computer Founded in 2008, the Borusan Ocean Group companies and their employees
programming training at these campuses. Volunteers Platform enables Borusan unceasingly work towards repaying their

employees to direct their knowledge and “debt of gratitude to the country.”
Borusan collaborated with the UK-based
KızCode (GirlCode), which demonstrated its skills into social responsibility projects in
success by winning the best social respon- the fields of education, culture and arts, Borusan Ocean Volunteers Platform of-
sibility initiative award from the Ministry of the environment, and human rights. ten collaborates with NGOs on projects,
the Interior and the Universities Association
in 2015. The Let’s Code, Girls! project won including blood donations, book dona-
the International Corporate Social Responsi- In 2016, the platform conducted 3,772 tion drives, shore and sea cleaning, book
bility award as part of the International Young hours of volunteer activities with the par- reading for the blind, mentoring, and
Entrepreneurs and Leaders platform’s 2nd ticipation of 599 volunteers. Borusan school friending programs.
International Corporate Social Responsibility
(ICSR) Awards.

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