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“ORANGE THE WORLD” ACTVITIY                                                                                            FRIENDLY LIFE DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
          26 NOVEMBER 2018                                                                                                       CHRISTMAS EVENT
                                                                                                                                 27 DECEMBER 2018
                                                                                                                                 Since 2016, we have been in institutional cooperation with Friendly
                                                                                                                                 Life Down Syndrome Foundation, which has been working for many
                                                                                                                                 years to ensure the participation of individuals with Down Syndrome
                                                                                                                                 in the society as productive citizens with constitutional rights, and
                                                                                                                                 access to qualified education and health services. As Nurol
                                                                                                                                 Construction, we came together with the foundation in 2018 as we
                                                                                                                                 do every year, to facilitate the lives of individuals with Down
                                                                                                                                 Syndrome and to improve their opportunities.
                                                                                                                                 We organized a New Year's Eve event together with the children of
                                                                                                                                 Friendly Life Down Syndrome Foundation and Nurol Construction
                                                                                                                                 employees in 2018 year end. We played various games, had pleasant
                                                                                                                                 tea party and gave Christmas gifts. A traditional cooperation
                                                                                                                                 between the two institutions has been formed with this activity,
                                                                                                                                 which was the third activity together.


                                                                                                                                 NUROL EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORTS FOUNDATION

                                                                                                                                 Nurol Education, Culture and Sports Foundation founded by   values activities aiming to improve the quality of society life and
                                                                                                                                 ÇARMIKLI Family in 1996, to promote and develop our national   maintains its tradition of supporting contemporary education,
                                                                                                                                 culture by preserving its ties with the past, to contribute to the   sports, culture and art in order to create better future.
                                                                                                                                 e orts of our country to reach the level of modern civilization and to   The foundation, donated libraries, sports, educational and congress
                                                                                                                                 take the place it deserves internationally.
                                                                                                                                                                                       halls, cinema, theater together with building facilities and
                                                                                                                                 Nurol Foundation continues the activities by the return of the assets   landscaping in various regions of Turkey under the scope of
           By being a signee of UNGC, we took many steps on human rights                                                         in its portfolio and the financial support provided from the Group   educational support activities and the Foundation continues o ering
           and women's rights in this context. One of the activities carried                                                     Companies every year. In the light of the principles and values, Nurol   its service to our country today too.
           out by Nurol Construction in 2018 was the 16-Day Activism
           Campaign to Combat Gender-Based Violence, led by the
           Secretary-General of the United Nations.
                                                                                                                                 NUROL ART GALLERY
           The campaign, which is organized internationally every year,
           started from 25 November 2018 and lasted 10 December 2018.
           This year's slogan for the campaign, coordinated by the Women's                                                       Nurol Art Gallery serving the art lovers since 2002 in the Kavaklidere
           Global Leadership Center, was 'Orange the World: #HearMeToo'.                                                         Ankara. The gallery programs an average of eight or nine exhibitions
           We aimed to raise awareness on the fight against gender-based                                                          in each art season, as well as talks, signatures and promotional
           violence, to strengthen advocacy e orts and to share                                                                  days. Our gallery provides a comprehensive catalog for each
           information and innovations on the subject by participating in                                                        exhibition and creates a permanent document for both our gallery
           the campaign. In this context, we participated in various                                                             and the artist. On top of catalogs, many art publications have been
           activities of the campaign.                                                                                           prepared so far to contribute to culture. Afterwards, the works
                                                                                                                                 exhibited in the gallery are presented to the art lovers in our Art
           We illuminated the exterior of Nurol Plaza building with orange                                                       Gallery in Bodrum OASİS.
           lighting during the campaign.
           We illuminated the pyramid on Nurol Life building in orange color
           We supported the campaign with Nurol Plaza employees by
           wearing orange vests on Monday, November 26, 2018,
           We prepared informative brochure about the campaign and
           distributed it to Nurol Plaza employees.












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