For the most important people on Earth...

IKEA Turkey - Mapa Mobilya Pazarlama A.Ş. supports the social responsibility projects run by the Maya Vakfı.

Maya Vakfı was founded with the dream of a productive society, open to exploration, devoted to helping others, and filled with healthy individuals who have had a free and safe childhood in June 2015. Maya Vakfı believes that all people deserve to live humanely and have hope for the future, and therefore contributes to the mental, physical and academic development of children and young people aged 5 to 24. The Foundation supports them toward realizing their potential, expressing themselves freely, developing creative thinking skills and becoming productive. The Foundation carries out extensive programs with the contribution of local and international funds while collaborating with private and public institutions, Maya Vakfı places disadvantaged and traumatized children at the core of its activities and strives to increase the sensitivity and capacity of the people and institutions these children interact with.

The Earth is Our Home Project

The Earth is Our Home Project, which we have been carrying out with TEMA Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education since 2018, aims to make primary school children think about the concept of sustainability and raise awareness about nature-friendly habits in their homes and classrooms. As part of the project, we organize in-class educational activities for primary school students, in-store activities for the children of IKEA customers in our stores in five cities , and a game-based digital activity to reach more children. In the Earth is Our Home project, we reached approximately 22,000 children in 48 provinces through educational activities in schools and 1,700 children through activities in IKEA stores. The game-based digital activity was designed to keep all children learning with fun. More than 555,000 people were reached with the Earth is Our Home game.

We do not throw away leftover food in our Sweden restaurant and Swedish Exit Cafe. Instead we send the leftover food to animal shelters in cities where IKEA stores are located.

The leftover food collected for 2-3 days are kept in sealed packages in cold storages at IKEA stores. Leftover food are collected by animal shelters in the cities where IKEA is located.

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