Our collaboration with The Centre enables us to bear more responsibility for the wellbeing of the people who workinour purchasing chain and their families, by ensuring children are taken care of while the parents are at work.
(Date: 2021)
-Matti Kalervo, Kesko’s Vice President of Corporate Responsibility
We are delighted to partner with The Centre to implement our Family Friendly Spaces (FFS) Programme. This programme is successful because the impacts are measurable and sustainable. Working together, we look forward to achieving even more for parent workers and children in the future.
(Date: 2020)
-Carmel Giblin President & CEO ICTI Ethical Toy Program
At BillerudKorsnäs, we are very happy about the programme and its positive impact. We will have internal discussions on how we are going to scale up in the future.
-Kyle Zhang, Senior Compliance Officer, BillerudKorsnäs on CFS
We needed such projects for the satisfaction of our workers. The parents were very happy, especially when they saw the progress their children made during the summer. I believe that the impact is a long term one and a win-win to all parties involved
-General manager of a participating factory in China in 2020
I would like to thank you for guiding us and our supplier Ceyadi during this programme - we never expected it to have so much impact and we are all sincerely touched by the worker stories and feedback of the children. The Centre’s support has been great throughout. We are looking into extending the child friendly spaces further into our Chinese supplier base for next year(s).
Having a CFS in place helps our company to enhance its reputation and attract talent. For instance, many parent workers pay attention to the education of their children but can hardly access childcare facilities in their workplace, so they are very interested in working in our factory
-Ms. Zhao, Production Manager of Caili factory, which opened a CFS in 2020