At the Clear Vision Conference organized by Hoya Vision Care, where projects from other countries also took part, we won first place with our social responsibility and sustainability project we carried out with Unicef for ’empowering girls’. According to Unicef data, 129 million girls worldwide are out of school, including 32 million in primary school, 30 million in middle school and 67 million in high school. Although education participation rates in Turkey have increased since the early 2000s, there is still room for improvement. In the OECD’s annual report “Education at a Glance 2016” published in December, Turkey ranked among the lowest among the countries included in the report in terms of girls’ participation in education. For many years, Hoya has been delivering RX lenses to the end consumer, including plastic cleaning sprays and plastic envelopes for cleaning cloths. At the beginning of 2022, we started thinking about how to create a sustainability policy for our future. First, we changed the plastics to metal sprays and the box to recycled kraft material. By 2023, we completely removed the sprays from the boxes and donated to Unicef to empower girls in need.

February 2024