According to information compiled by AA correspondents, Garanti BBVA is developing social investment programs that consider the expectations of society in line with its inclusive growth strategy.
To add value to society, the bank implements long-term and socially impactful programs aimed at reducing inequalities, providing education for all, ensuring accessible culture and information production, and combating the climate crisis.
Among Garanti BBVA’s main social investment programs are the Teachers Academy Foundation (ÖRAV), Salt, the 5 Stones Social and Financial Leadership Program, There is Play in School, the EqualBiz Project, Turkey’s Women Entrepreneurs Competition, the Turkey Women Entrepreneurs Academy, Garanti BBVA Partners, Women Who Know Their Accounts Program, the Blue Breath Project, and the Don’t Let Turkey Suffer Support Program.
Türkiye İş Bankası, through its social responsibility projects, supports young people who illuminate the future and contributes to the development of society.
The bank emphasizes the importance of its projects in education-science, environment, sports, and culture-arts being long-term and sustainable to create a real impact.
Türkiye İş Bankası’s social projects include Show Your Report Card, Get Your Book, 81 Students from 81 Provinces, Science Generation Workshops, Internet Project for 100 Villages, The Seas Are Ours, The Future Is Ours, Book Support for Schools and Libraries, Official Supporter of the Turkish National Olympic Committee, 81 Forests in 81 Provinces in collaboration with TEMA Foundation, as well as the Piggy Bank Magazine, Golden Youth Award, Artificial Intelligence Application and Research Center, Cultural Publications, İş-Sanat, and the Infectious Diseases Application and Research Center.
Akbank Organizes Youth Support Programs
Akbank focuses on creating social benefits with a human-centered sustainability approach, prioritizing young people in its efforts.
Standing out with its upcycling project initiated during the renovation of its headquarters building and its youth support programs, Akbank takes significant steps in creating social and environmental value. Through these projects, the bank aims to ensure equal opportunities in education and enhance the competencies of young people.
With projects such as “The Future in Transformation,” “Akbank Beautiful Tomorrows Movement,” and “The Good State of the City,” Akbank enriches the lives of young people while continuing to create social and environmental value.
Vakıfbank’s Activities in Education, Culture, and Sports
Vakıfbank implements its corporate social responsibility efforts, one of the main pillars of its future strategies, in three main areas: education, culture, and sports.
One of the bank’s longest-running and most impactful corporate social responsibility projects is the VakıfBank Sports Club. Additionally, by establishing VakıfBank Cultural Publications (VBKY), the bank has contributed over 300 quality works to the literature across a wide range from literature to history, economics to philosophy, and art to classics, thus fostering the cultural climate.
Hayat Holding Prioritizes Socially and Environmentally Responsible Activities
While strengthening its economic assets, Hayat Holding strives to improve its environmental and social impacts in a way that benefits humanity as a responsible community.
With projects like “We Take Good Care of Life,” “Ecological Literacy,” and “Hayat Good Life Center,” Hayat Holding prioritizes meaningful work that is sensitive to society, the environment, and people, beyond just ensuring the quality and accessibility of its products and services. It makes these efforts more visible through various projects and collaborations.
Trendyol Focuses on Digital Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Quality Education
Trendyol focuses on three main areas in its social responsibility work: digital equality, women’s empowerment, and quality education.
Through programs like the Heart-to-Heart Scholarship Program created with the Turkish Education Foundation, Basket of Goodness, Tomorrow’s Villages Trendyol Art, Turkey’s Museums, and Local Products, Trendyol continues to expand its social impact.
Trendyol designs its sustainability and social impact projects by always working together with its broad ecosystems that include all its stakeholders.
Hepsiburada Invests Sustainably by Removing Barriers to Digitalization and Trade
Hepsiburada removes barriers to digitalization and trade and makes sustainable investments to economically empower different segments of society through programs like Technology Power for Entrepreneurial Women, HepsiTürkiye’den, HepsiYürekten, ArtHere, and Trade and Technology Power for the Earthquake Region.
Hepsiburada works to eliminate disadvantages, increase access to play, education, 21st-century skills, and the workforce through its social responsibility projects for children, youth, and pets.
Teknosa Aims to Support Women’s Development
Teknosa launched the “Technology for Women” project in 2007. In collaboration with the Habitat Association, the project aims to increase women’s digital literacy, ensure their integration into technology for economic and social participation, and support their development. Through training, women gain easier access to all kinds of information using technology and the internet, expand their social circles, and start actively using technology. They begin promoting and selling their handmade goods and home-produced items through social media.
Amazon Turkey Collected 431 Kilograms of Waste
Amazon Turkey supports works that will create social benefits in the countries where it operates. By launching the “Smiling Dreams Community House” project in Hatay with the Join My Dream Community, Amazon Turkey provides services to the entire regional population, especially children and youth, through activities like art and music therapy and individual and group psychosocial support sessions.
Collaborating with BlindLook for the visually impaired, the company integrated voice simulation technology into its website and mobile application.
Amazon Turkey Logistics Center volunteers, together with Tuzla Municipality and the AHBAP Association, collected 431 kilograms of waste through environmental cleaning and recycling activities, preventing 28.56 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution of 3.9 million liters of clean water.
source: aa.com.tr/ prepared by Melisa Beğiç