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[SOCIAL PERFORMANCE] CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Borusan Kocabıyık Vakfı

Educational Activities

Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation has a try. Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation also

long-standing commitment to education, disbursed 133 scholarships to students
which Asım Kocabıyık believed was cru- studying in Turkey and abroad in 2016.
cial for determining Turkey’s future. Boru- Scholarships for classical music educa-
san Kocabıyık Foundation has built many tion are pivotal, with 26 students having
schools: Borusan Otomotiv Zehra Nurhan benefited to date, and four current recip-
Kocabıyık Primary School, Gemlik Borusan ients. BKF also contributes to improving Women
Primary School, Borusan Asım Kocabıyık Turkey’s educational sector by supporting
Industrial Vocational High School, Kocaeli platforms such as the Education Reform Empowerment
University Asım Kocabıyık Vocational Col- Initiative.
lege. The Foundation has also provided Borusan believes that women have the sexual discrimination and in providing
major support to other projects, such as Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation also coor- same social and economic rights as men. equal opportunity for the professional de-
the restoration of Istanbul University’s Fac- dinates Ertuğ and Kocabıyık Publications, Women comprise only seven million in velopment for all employees.
ulty of Economics Library. In some cases, which publishes books of exquisite quality Turkey’s 37 million working population
BKF directly supports the schools it has and content that focus primarily on the Ot- and one in five Turkish women lives in As in Turkey overall, the number of female

built while, in others, it does so indirect- toman, Byzantine, Roman and Hellenistic poverty. According to the World Econom- employees at Borusan working in tech-
ly through agreements with local govern- eras. The publication of these books, which
ments to meet the schools’ needs. Its ac- contain scholarly articles and stunning ic Forum’s Gender Equality Index, women nology, engineering and management is
tivities include donating books to schools photographs, is a joint project of Ahmet hold only 12% of administrative positions low and there are hurdles to hiring wom-
and, in 2016, it donated 7,575 books to Kocabıyık, Chairman of Borusan Holding, in Turkey. en for factory employee positions. Boru-
the libraries of 41 schools across the coun- and architect-photographer Ahmet Ertuğ. san established its “Equal Borusan Social
In response, Borusan supports its wom- Equality” platform to tackle these issues.
en employees as a matter of company
policy, promoting gender equality, and it Moreover, Borusan has signed many rele-
provides infrastructure and financial sup- vant protocols and commitments, the first
port to enable women in other sectors and foremost being the UN Women’s Em-
of society to participate in professional powerment Principles.

life. Borusan develops its projects in the
belief that the women empowerment in Borusan was elected and invited to be
economic and social life is a prerequisite a member of the UN Women’s Empow-
of a sound economy, a more equal so- erment Principles Leadership Group in
ciety, development, sustainability, human 2015, becoming the first and only Turkish

rights, and a rising quality of life. company to achieve this status. Through
its work on women’s empowerment, it
Borusan’s human resources policies have has become a leader of the cause, not
made significant headway in eliminating only in Turkey, but the world.

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