Philips 2015 Annual Report Download - page 193

Sustainability statements 14.2.6
Annual Report 2015 193
immediate relief to people in regions aected by
humanitarian crises including natural disasters. The
Philips Foundation has partnered with the Netherlands
Red Cross and the Ivory Coast Red Cross on a project
in Ivory Coast to strengthen the resilience of a
community in the Blolequin region with a focus on the
health of mothers and children. The Philips Foundation
and UNICEF have partnered to develop healthcare
innovations for the rst 1000 days of children’s lives.
The Philips Foundation is supporting UNICEF’s Global
Innovation Center and is a lead partner in the Kenya
Maker for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Project
in Nairobi, which is focused on developing and
deploying solutions and new business models that
improve access to healthcare for mothers and their
children in low-resource settings.
In addition, around 30 local projects have been
approved to be set up throughout the world, often with
local NGOs as partners and are supported and
channeled through the Philips Foundation. These
projects oer employee engagement opportunities
including skilled expert volunteering. Philips
employees are further engaging in a variety of
fundraising activities, including the global initiative
‘Make the dierence: a quarter of giving’. Employee
donations were also a large part of the Philips
Foundation’s response to the earthquake in Nepal in
April 2015, the oods in Southern India in December
2015, and to the Refugee Crisis in Europe and the
Middle East. The Foundation coordinated and matched
employee gifts as well as providing in-kind donations
of relief goods. In total, Philips employees donated
some EUR 225,000 to disaster relief and related
projects, which the Foundation matched to EUR
450,000.
More information about the Philips Foundation, its
purpose and scope as well as the Philips Foundation
Annual Report 2014 can be found here .
Examples of innovation projects supported by
the Philips Foundation
Philips Community Light Centers provide solar powered
lighting to communities that are not connected or are
underserved by the grid, thus providing opportunities
for local civilians to improve their social and economic
well-being. Philips had installed over 100 Community
Light Centers across Africa by the end of 2015, each
typically lighting an area comparable to a full-size
soccer pitch. Over the years, Philips has partnered with
many organizations to optimize the benets of light, for
example by facilitating access to education, health and
sanitation. A key partnership utilizing the Community
Light Center concept is with KNVB (the Royal Dutch
Football Association) and its World Coaches program
that aims to train young people in key life skills such as
sanitation, HIV prevention and crime prevention. The
Philips Foundation is supporting the continuity of this
program by ensuring maintenance and sustained
ownership of installed set ups.
The prevalence of cardiovascular heart disorders in the
young population of Turkey has been noted as the
highest in all of Europe. Between 13,000 and 14,000
children are born each year with congenital heart
disorders. Most of these children have no access to
medical treatment. Supported by the Philips
Foundation, the Little Hearts Project aims to create
healthier generations by raising awareness of heart
disorders, providing early diagnosis and treatment, and
improving children’s access to preventive health
services. As part of the project, 180,000 children will
receive heart scans in Southeastern Anatolia, in Turkey.
Philips receives support for the project from the Turkish
Heart Association and the Turkish Ministry of
Development.
Community involvement of Philips employees
In North America, the Philips Cares program provides
ways for employees to work together to improve
people’s lives by creating healthy, sustainable
communities that contribute to the success and well-
being of future generations. This can take many forms:
from helping a child to excel in math, or providing safety
and energy-ecient home improvements for the
disadvantaged, to raising awareness about the
importance of cardiac health. In 2015 alone, more than
5,000 employee volunteers participated in community
outreach projects that suited their needs, schedules,
and passions individually as well as through
partnerships with organizations such as the American
Heart Association, Rebuilding Together, and the March
of Dimes.
Philips Group
Classication of the concerns investigated in number of reports
2013 - 2015
2013 2014 2015
substantiated unsubstantiated substantiated unsubstantiated substantiated unsubstantiated
Health & Safety - 2 1 7 3 4
Treatment of employees 33 136 32 112 62 95
Legal 2 2 4 9 4 9
Business Integrity 32 32 25 45 16 62
Supply Management - 3 1 - - 1
IT 3 1 2 - - 2
Other - - 4 18 1 8
Total 70 176 69 191 86 181