EKP GOODNESS TEAM
As Erdem Kaya Patent, we try to fulfill our duties and responsibilities with our activities aimed at adding value and benefit to the society within the scope of our social responsibility projects.
In this context; Within the scope of the activities of the "EKP Goodness Team", which was established in 2014 with the sole support of our colleagues in order to contribute to the solution of social and environmental problems; we try to reach those in need in health, education, education, environment and every field in need.
Contribution to Education and Training
Aid to Schools and Students
Our main goal within the scope of the project has been to contribute to education and training by identifying schools and students in need and meeting their stationery, book and clothing needs. Every year when schools open, we contact schools in need and try to meet their needs in this respect.
Scholarship Support to Students
With the educational scholarships we provide, we try to support students who have financial difficulties and cannot find the opportunity to study and to contribute to students becoming sensitive individuals in addition to financial support. To date, we have witnessed the graduation and employment of many students to whom we have provided scholarships. We continue to actively provide scholarships to students in need and accompany them to reach their goals.
Let Your Invention Be Your Toy
In our projects, we try to touch everyone, no matter how big or small. With the “Let Your Invention Be Your Toy” project, which we carried out jointly with the Ambassadors of Heart Association and the Governorship of Bursa, we met with kindergarten, and primary school 1st and 2nd-grade students and tried to explain invention, invention and patent in their language. Afterward, we gave the children colored pencils and paper and asked them to draw the invention of their dreams. Our aim was to expand their imagination, to enable them to gain an innovative perspective on life and events and to raise awareness on this issue. Everything the children drew on paper was flying. Flying beds, houses, cars and much more. We witnessed that their imagination was shaped by the fiction of flying as far as you can.
On April 23rd, we celebrated with the same children and presented them with everything they had drawn on paper turned into plush toys. We wanted them to feel their dreams in the palms of their hands with the wish that their feet would not touch the ground. It is worth everything to witness the happiness, surprise and joy in their eyes. In addition to special projects, we continue to work individually with the children of our colleagues and clients.
Contribution to the Needy
Dress a Child
Within the scope of the project, which we continue every year, we identify children in need all over our country, buy gifts such as small Christmas surprises, winter coats and holiday gifts and deliver them to their addresses. As the number of children we help make happy increases each year, we are motivated by the contribution we make.
Financial Aid Support to Families in Need
As the number of families in need of financial aid in our country is increasing day by day, we cannot remain indifferent to this situation and we try to support families in need with the EKP Kindness Team. In addition to furniture, clothing and food aid, we also provide cash aid to families in need and support them in paying their bills.
Piggy Banks for Our Pawed Friends
We said, “Make a difference in life, be their voice” and prepared a piggy bank for our friends by trying to raise awareness about the needs of our cute friends. Thanks to the financial support of our colleagues, we delivered all the income accumulated in the piggy bank to HEPAD Her Eve Bir Pati Association.
Contribution to Sustainable Living
For This World
Today, many experiences have shown us that we cannot talk about sustainability unless we integrate environmental protection into decision-making processes. As a company, we have always prioritized environmentally sensitive approaches both individually and corporately with our colleagues. In addition to increasing our individual awareness, we are also working to contribute to the climate agenda in our corporate structure. While trying to fulfill our responsibility towards nature with our environmental efforts, we also aim to be role models for the companies and institutions in our own ecosystem.
In addition to our awareness-raising activities in line with these goals, we carried out a ‘special’ project through TEMA. For all patent applications made by us, we donated a sapling in the name of the inventor and delivered the certificate to the relevant person. We tried to contribute to the afforestation of our country by donating more than a thousand saplings. In addition to these, our gift was always a sapling on the birthdays of our colleagues, when our clients signed a success or social responsibility.
In addition to all these, we know that recycling is also important and we regularly collect recycling in our offices. We do not throw waste batteries and electronics in the trash, we produce compost by separating food and presenting it to our friends who have a garden. As Erdem Kaya Partners, we will continue to do our best for a sustainable life.
Compost Invitation
As Erdem Kaya Patent, we are aware that it is one of our most important responsibilities to leave a clean future and a clean world to all the children of the world in the future on behalf of a sustainable environment. With this awareness, we continue our work with the same dedication and sense of responsibility for the land we live on as well as the benefit we provide to children and humanity. Thanks to the compost buckets we have provided for our office, we obtain fertilizer from our garbage and bring the fertilizers we obtain together with the soil.
Goodness Workshop
With the İyilik Workshop, we aim to reach more people by creating a triple cycle of those who want to contribute to goodness with their own labor, those who want to contribute financially to our İyilik Team Social Fund Account by purchasing this labor, and those who want to make that person happy by gifting the purchased labor to someone else.
What do we do in the Goodness Workshop?
We collect whatever you can think of, such as handmade knitting, unread books, unused or slightly used clothes, ornaments, jewelry, whatever comes from our hands and hearts, in our workshop. We sell the products we have accumulated through our gardrops account (Ekpiyilikatolyesi) and transfer the income to the goodness fund to be used for those in need.
We Are Among the WEP’s Signatory Companies
Erdem Kaya Partners is a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Platform established in partnership with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN) and the United Nations Global Compact (UN Global Compact) and a member of the Women’s Empowerment Bursa Platform. The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) provide guidance to the private sector to promote equal opportunities in the business world.
WEPs have 7 basic principles. These principles are
- Providing high-level corporate leadership for gender equality
- Treating all women and men fairly at work, respecting human rights and the principle of non-discrimination; promoting these principles
- Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers
- Supporting women’s education, training and professional development opportunities
- Implementing entrepreneurial development, supply chain and marketing methods for women’s empowerment
- Promoting equality through social initiatives and advocacy work
- Evaluation and public reporting of achievements in gender equality.
Projects We Contributed to
Audio Library for the Visually Impaired
The online library project created by GETEM (Technology and Education Center for the Visually Impaired) aims to provide accessible information to the visually impaired. This project helps not only visually impaired people but also people who cannot benefit from resources due to other disabilities. We, together with our volunteer friends, participated in this project and supported the production of audio books for our visually impaired friends by remote recording method.
Don’t throw it away, let it be repaired, let it be hope for children
The project started by Muammer Kavazoğlu, who lives in Orhangazi, Bursa, by repairing the discarded toys he found next to the garbage container and gifting them to a child in need, has reached more than 3 thousand children so far. Since the day it started, we have supported this important project every year by sending broken, broken toys in need of repair. Project owners repair the toys on our behalf and deliver them to families in need.
Let Your Lids Turn into Hope
We support the Plastic Lid Campaign conducted by the Spinal Cord Paralytics Association of Turkey (TOFD). All of the income to be obtained through the recycling of plastic lids collected within the scope of the campaign is used to meet the needs of thousands of orthopedically disabled individuals who are currently waiting for battery powered and manual wheelchairs. We continue to support the plastic lid collection campaign in order to contribute to our friends with orthopedic disabilities, and we deliver the plastic lid boxes to the authorities as they are filled.
“EKER I RUN” Run
As Erdem Kaya Partners, we participated in the annual “Eker I Run” Run and ran to support the Çağdaş Eğitim Kooperatifi’s “Let the Wildflowers Read” project. We took every step for girls who want to study but cannot due to financial impossibilities. Together with our colleagues who participated in the run, we also carried out a campaign on social media, enabling everyone who wanted to donate for ‘Wildflowers’.
Erdem Kaya Partners will continue to support the running team by strengthening their steps every time.
