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Sponsoring worldwide
At Sika we regard our sponsorship commitments as a long-term collaboration in the form of partnerships, from which both sides benefit and to which both sides contribute. With our sponsoring activities, we want to make a useful contribution to the society and the environment in which we live. Therefore Sika sponsoring on a global level is limited to social, educational and environmental issues.
In 2010 we started to animate our visitors to disseminate the information about our commitment to Sponsoring for sustainable projects. We did this by donating money for every “tell-a-friend”-email sent or by any “like”-click linking the page to Facebook. During the year 2010 we thereby collected more than USD 80’000! Which was invested in sustainable projects (more details below). We are continuing this action and are willing to invest a big amount of money again. So, it is up to you to make us donate!
Water projects
Water is the essence of life – yet for many people this necessity is still hard to obtain. As Sika is one of the world leaders when it comes to waterproofing, it is in Sika’s nature to engage in projects where water is concerned. Sika supports many organizations, read here about some of them:
Water Project
Living Lakes - Lake Fúquene, Colombia
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Sika and GNF supports information center and expansion of the environmental education program
Until the 1970′s Lake Fúquene was the largest lake in Colombia. Today only 3,200 hectares of waters original 10,000 hectares are left. The flat lagoon has increasingly been dried out in order to make new land for farming and breeding. The lake possesses a very high biological diversity and it is the central water provider for around 200,000 people as well as for farming and breeding.
So far the lake has no protective status.Native tree and shrub species were cultivated along borders of pastures and fields. These “living fences” offer natural habitats for animals and plants. The Fundación Humedales organised far-reaching information campaigns in the communities around the lake. The participants, most of whom are artisans who depend on reeds as a source of income, were enlightened about the current situation at the lake and about the ecological problems that can occur in the reeds.
Water Project
Yayasan Tirta Lestari, Indonesia
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Public Health Engineering at Indonesia
Our support of the Yayasan Tirta Lestari project helps people in Jakarta secure clean drinking water. Sustainability is an important issue for everyone in today’s world. For many sustainability is providing the basic needs to sustain life. Yayasan Tirta Lestari (formally Ye Water Program) works with the disenfranchised people of the kampungs (slums) of Jakarta.
“Now with hand‐washing station, my children always wash their hands before meal, even every time before they get in the house.” - Ibu Liana, Pulo Kandang
Teaching children how to wash their hands and brush their teeth properly, helping mothers provide clean water and sanitary facilities for their families. Through the generous funding of the Romuald Burkard Fund, Sika Indonesia and the entire Sika Family have become partners in helping Yayasan Tirta Lestari achieve a truly sustainable program by empowering the people of the kampungs to improve their own quality of life that will last for generations; now that is sustainability!
Sustainability project
Living Lakes - Lake Chapala, Mexico
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Preservation of major drinking water reservoir in Mexiko
Lake Chapala is Mexico’s largest fresh water lake, with a maximum of approximately 8,000 million cubic meters. The Mexican project partners – Fundacion Cuenca Lerma Lago Chappla and Sociedad Amigos del Lago de Chapala – have worked out an action plan to save the polluted lake and, thus, the water resources for 11 million people, who live in the catchment area.
The Living Lakes network, supported by Sika, is striving for the preservation of Lake Chapala as drinking water reservoir, the protection of migrant and breeding birds, the designation of Lake Chapala area as Ramsar reserve.
Social and Ethical
Operation Smile, Vietnam
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Sika Vietnam funds surgeries for children
Sika Limited (Vietnam) keeps on sponsoring Operation Smile Vietnam (OSV) in 2011. A series of corrective facial surgicals missions provides free surgeries to Vietnamese children with cleft lips and palates. OSV will carry out missions in Hai Phong, Ha Noi, Nghe An and HCM City. This is the second year that Sika Vietnam has joined Operation Smile Vietnam to heal children’s smiles and bring them new lives and a new future. In 2010 Sika’s support made significant changes to the lives of more than 500 children from around Vietnam who underwent cleft lip and cleft palate surgery thanks to their donation. The 2010 Missions took place in Hanoi, HCMC, Dak Nong, Ba Ria and Ha Tinh provinces. In addition to the financial support, a number of dedicated Sika employees participated in these missions as volunteers to assist the teams with logistics work and experience life changing surgeries.
The five missions supported by Sika were conducted in five provinces/cities
- Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC National Hospital for Odonto-Stomatology)
- Hanoi (Vietnam – CuBa Friendship Hospital)
- Dak Nong (Dak Nong General Hospital)
- Ha Tinh (Ha Tinh General Hospital)
- Ba Ria (Ba Ria General Hospital)
Operation Smile Vietnam is part of a global alliance of Operation Smile Foundations and Resource Chapters dedicated to providing free treatment to children and adults suffering from cleft lips and cleft palates. Nguyen Viet Phuong, Region Director Asia & Chief Representative of Operation Smile in Vietnam: “With generous support from different donors like Sika, to date Operation Smile Vietnam has provided surgeries to over 17,000 patients and supported thousands of families across the country.”
Sika Limited (Vietnam) is licensed in 1993 in Vietnam as a 100% foreign owned company, a subsidiary of Sika AG, specializing in the manufacture and supply of various ranges of construction chemical products. The company is commited to contribute to teh sustainable socio-economic development of Vietnam and to the improvement of life quality for Vietnamese people through its community development activities.
“We are very proud to support Operation Smile to help under-privileged Vietnamese children. We do hope that our contribution will not only help heal a child, but heal a family, a village but also an entire country” – Ms. Yumi Kan, General Manager of Sika Vietnam.
In 2011 the Sika sponsored missions will be taken place in Hai Phong, Hanoi, Nghe An and HCMC. It is estimated that 400 patients shall receive treatment during these missions. Changing lives, one smile at a time.
Social and Ethical
Liter of Light
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partnership with liter of light
Liter of Light is a project which aims to provide an ecologically and economically sustainable source of light to underprivileged households that do not have access to electricity or cannot afford it. The source of light consists of a plastic bottle filled with a water solution which is embedded in the roofs of houses. The solar bottle harnesses the light from the sun, capturing and diffracting the light to all parts of the room.
Sika products are perfect to fix these bottles into the roofs and ensure waterproofness. Product tests have shown good results and Sika now supplies the organization with Sikaflex to help installing more bottles. The organization Liter of Light was founded in November 2011 by ten graduate students and supports projects all over the world. Their current focus is on Colombia, where the project already has big success.
