Big award for Fiba Volunteers' good stories

Fiba Group, with its Fiba Volunteers, was deemed worthy of two awards at the 16th Volunteer Awards organized by the Private Sector Volunteers Association (ÖSGD). Fiba Volunteers won the grand prize with the Most Successful Volunteering Program Award and the Most Successful Volunteering Project award with the "#VarGücümüzle Fiba Volunteers Earthquake Mobilization" project they carried out during the disaster period. Fiba Volunteers, who implement projects that provide social benefit in the focus areas of education, gender equality, health, development and disaster, work to leave good stories for the future. The volunteers, who took action immediately after the February earthquakes, provided support to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the disaster zone with more than 800 hours of work.

Stating that Fiba Volunteers, which started with the initiative of Fiba employees and has been going on for more than ten years, has been continuing in a much more structured way since 2021, Corporate Communications Director of Fiba Group Aylin Kurt Ganiç said the following:

"As one of Fiba Group's core values, we are aware that volunteering activities create real benefits when they are carried out with a structured and sustainable model. For this reason, we carry out the Fiba Volunteers platform in 6 focus areas that we have determined by taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals and our social investment experiences, and we proceed with an inclusive structure. After the earthquakes, we once again saw how well this structure worked and how ready our volunteers were to provide support. We organized very quickly and worked in cooperation with NGOs in many areas ranging from meeting needs to providing educational support during the acute period. It is a great pride that the corporate volunteering model we created with Fiba Volunteers and what we did together with our volunteers after the earthquake received an award. I share this pride with all Fiba Volunteers and thank every one of them and our most important stakeholder, the civil society ecosystem."

At Fiba Group, volunteers are supported with orientation, basic volunteering training, civil society meetings, volunteer meetings, voluntary leave, program coordinator support, independent project funding, information and equipment. Each year, 50 projects are implemented in cooperation with an average of 15 NGOs.