Corporate Social Responsibility

Doğuş REIT aims to contribute to the social, cultural, artistic, and economic development of communities and conducts Corporate Social Responsibility projects accordingly. The Company operates all activities with an awareness on Corporate Social Responsibility and shows the utmost care to comply with the regulations and environmental values. There were no significant lawsuits filed against the Company for damages on the environment in the period.

In addition, plastic and paper waste collected and separated in the Company are regularly sent to the Ayhan Şahenk Foundation to minimize the negative impact on ecology.

Gebze Center Shopping Mall, part of the Company portfolio, became the first shopping mall in Kocaeli to obtain the “TSE COVID-19 Safe Service Certificate” from the Turkish Standards Institute and received the highest scores from all weekly audits by the Provincial and District Audit Commissions.

Furthermore, vaccination points were set up at Gebze Center Shopping Mall periodically throughout 2021 and visitors requesting vaccinations were vaccinated by the authorized personnel of the Gebze District Directorate of Health.

Gebze Center stood out from the rest with its safe working practices, and shopping and social areas. The “Drive-in Outdoor Cinema Days’’ at the Mall received the Gold Award in three categories at the International Hermes Creative Awards. This event has become an exemplary project in the industry as our quality of life has been threatened by these challenging times. It was the first large-scale event at a shopping mall right after the quarantine when all social life had came to a halt. All hygiene precautions were meticulously implemented. Through press, social media and participants, we reached over ONE MILLION people with the “MASK, DISTANCE, HYGIENE” message and raised awareness concerning Covid-19 prevention precautions.

Numerous transmitters are placed at specified locations inside the shopping mall to accommodate the app “Yol Arkadaşım (My Companion)” launched together by the Gebze Center Shopping Mall and Turkcell as part of the “Hayal Ortağım (My Dream Partner)’’ project. The project has been active since 2016 to encourage blind people’s equal and independent participation in social life. These transmitters send audio notifications to mobile phones to ensure an accessible shopping experience for all.

Furthermore, we achieved an 88-percent water efficiency between 2020 and 2021 with the “Geleceğimiz Akıp Gitmesin (Don’t let our future go to waste)” project at the Gebze Center Shopping Mall. Gebze Center Shopping Mall and Hyatt House Gebze received a Certificate of Appreciation from Gebze Municipality for collecting the highest amount of waste as part of the Zero Waste Project, which was launched to encourage waste prevention, efficient use of resources, and garbage prevention at workplaces and residences.

Gebze Public Library of the Ministry of Culture and the Private Adem Ceylan Technical College organized a reading activity, “Her Yerde Okuyoruz (We Read Everywhere)” at Gebze Center.

Teachers and students of the Private Adem Ceylan Technical College have been organizing reading activities at various locations to highlight the importance of reading. This time, cooperating with the Gebze Public Library, they were at Gebze Center with their books.

The Electronic Waste Project, run in cooperation with TEMA, Gebze Municipality, Gebze Technical University, TUBITAK, and Gebze Center, aims to foster awareness on electronic waste and its recycling. Income generated through this recycling will then be invested to establish Turkey’s first “Zero Waste Forest” in April. The Municipality aims to plant 80 saplings in exchange for a tonne of electronic waste. Furthermore, each contributing organization will have a space named after them in the forest, proportionate to their contribution. The saplings will be planted in April 2022 to establish the Zero Waste Forest.

Corporate Social Responsibility Projects

Supports provided by our centers recorded in our portfolio of real estate properties:

Doğuş Center Maslak

Down Syndrome Association

Due to the World Down Syndrome Day, 21st March, Doğuş Center Maslak allocated its advertisement locations for the purpose of supporting the attempts of Down Turkey to let the people with down syndrome settle independent, productive and social lives and, creating awareness of the society for the people with down syndrome.

HayKonFed (Animals’ Living Rights Confederation)

The banners reading “get an animal from the animal shelter to give it a new life” to encourage people to choose animals from the animal shelter instead of the pet shops were broadcast on the digital screens of the Doğuş Center Maslak.

Association of Sports Academy for the Disabled People

Doğuş Center Maslak let the disabled members of the Association of Sports Academy for the Disabled People exhibit their products created thanks to the skills they have obtained from the professional courses they had attended and, the revenue thereof was allocated for the purchase of wheel chairs.

Kızılay

Your grants make the whole year a holiday

Aid efforts were made to can the meats from the Eid Al-Adhaand, distribute them to those in need during the whole year.

Kızılay

From your heart

Aid efforts were made to raise donations from the benefactors during the Eid Al-Adha and, distribute them to those in need.

Cancer Free Life Association

A Child Inside

The banners of the project initiated to support the inmates’ children who need to live in the prison were broadcast on the digital screens of the Doğuş Center Maslak.

Darüşşafaka

Not Necessarily. But, education is sine qua non.

The promotions of this project initiated to support education of the children with no family were broadcast on the digital screens of the Doğuş Center Maslak.

LÖSEV (Foundation for Children with Leukemia)

LÖSEV shop products designed and made by the mothers and young people (additive-free love chocolates, mugs, badges, collar badges, baby dolls etc.) were put up for sale at the stand in the Doğuş Center Maslak. The revenue was allocated to provide continuous resource for the treatment, education and social requirements of the children with leukemia.

PAYDER (Plastic Industrialists Association)

Contribution to the animal shelter for street animals by collecting plastic waste send for recycling.

Support to Blue Cap Attempt

Blue caps from the plastic bottles used in the Shopping Mall of the Doğuş Center Maslak are collected and, delivered to the respective organizations for purchase of wheel chairs.

Gebze Center Shopping Mall

Autism Awareness Week

Under the World Autism Awareness Week, April 2, an exhibition was set up by the autistic children in Gebze Center and, the visitors were informed accordingly.

Let Toys Spring to Life

A project “Let Toys Spring to Life” was organized in cooperation with the District Governorship of Gebze. An aid campaign was initiated for abandoned and disabled children with a toy box set up in the Gebze Center. All toys collected by the visitors of the Gebze Center under this social responsibility project were delivered to the children in need.

Art Exhibitions

All works from the Vocational Courses organized by Kocaeli and Gebze Municipality have been exhibited in the Shopping Mall in the form of an exhibition and, the visitors were informed about these courses.

Society for the Protection of Children

The children from the institution for the care of orphans were invited to use all entertainment and cinema facilities within the Shopping Mall for free of charge and, spend a beautiful day.

Campaign for Collection of Books

The boxes were set up in the exhibition area during the 5th Gebze Book Days to collect books in this campaign organized in cooperation with the Gebze Chamber of Commerce. These books collected were donated to the students in need.

Construction of a Library

Gebze Center participated in the project “Favor Festival” initiated in Gebze. Under this project, a library was constructed for the Emlak Konutları Elementary School and, more than 3000 books were donated.

Atatürk Corner

An Atatürk Corner and archive room were set up for the Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Elementary School in Gebze.