"First of all, faith and perseverance ... Then working hard ... Our debt of gratitude to Anadolu for the successes we have achieved."
1979-2013
TWO ANATOLIAN PEOPLE
Kamil YAZICI and İzzet ÖZİLHAN
It was the early 50s when Kamil Yazıcı and İzzet Özilhan set up their business in a small hardware store in Tahtakale, and while they were dreaming for the future in that small shop, they also shaped an ideal. The Yazıcı and Özilhan families came out of the heart of Anatolia and came to the struggle for life in Istanbul. Kamil Yazıcı was born in Niğde-Aksaray and İzzet Özilhan was born in the Pusatlı village of Kayseri-Tomarza. As they reaped the fruits of their hard work and perseverance, they also made plans to share their earnings with the Anatolian people. They knew both the poverty and lack of education of the places they came from.
When the two families founded Anadolu Holding in 1969, they started one of the most important entrepreneurship stories in the history of the Republic. When they established the Anadolu Education and Social Assistance Foundation in 1979, they had the feeling of serving the Anatolian people in their hearts, with the strength they received from their entrepreneurial values. Their common ideal is to create permanent works that will serve in the areas needed and to bring bright new generations to the society. Adopting philanthropy as a civic duty, Kamil YAZICI and İzzet ÖZİLHAN determined the priority fields of activity of the Foundation as education and health.
The first service was to build educational institutions; A primary school was built in the name of Mustafa Yazıcı in Niğde, Aksaray, and a student dormitory in the name of Vesile Özilhan in the town of Tomarza in Kayseri. Anadolu Foundation has built more than 50 educational institutions, dormitories, gymnasiums, hospitals and health centers all over Turkey in 33 years; transferred to the relevant government agencies. The foundation provided scholarships to tens of thousands of students and provided free healthcare to more than 20,000 people in need. Anadolu Foundation was there wherever help was needed. Sometimes prefabricated schools and financial aid were provided for earthquake victims who lost their homes due to earthquakes, sometimes a helping hand was extended to a disabled citizen who could not afford to buy a wheelchair, and treatment expenses were paid.
Today, group companies donate between one and five percent of their earnings to Anadolu Foundation, which is funded entirely by the support of Anadolu Group companies.
1979-2013 Education
Since the first day of its establishment, Anadolu Foundation has focused on the regions needed in education, successful young people and different issues in this field. The Foundation has supported more than 20 thousand students in their education with scholarship programs:
*Fehmi Özilhan School of Civil Aviation, Erciyes University, Kayseri
*Anadolu Efes Primary School, Yuregir, Adana
*Efes Industrial Vocational High School and Workshops, Kazan, Ankara
*İnönü Primary School, Gebze, Kocaeli
*Polinas Industrial Vocational High School and Workshops, Manisa
*Fehmi Özilhan Primary School, Tomarza, Pusatlı Village, Kayseri
*Mustafa Yazici Primary School, Aksaray
*Aksaray Education Campus
1979-2013 Health
Anadolu Foundation, whose mission is to spread a modern health service in Turkey, presented hospitals and community health centers to our Ministry of Health, took care of them, and also provided health funds to tens of thousands of people:
*Bornova Türkan Özilhan Emergency Traumatology Hospital, İzmir
*Kartal Suzan Yazıcı Emergency Hospital, Istanbul
*Tomarza-Sarımehmetli Village/ Ayşe Ana Community Health Center, Kayseri
*Tomarza-Pusatlı / Vesile Ana Community Health Center, Kayseri
Social Responsibility Program in Health
Anadolu Foundation launched the Social Responsibility Program in Health in 2005 for people who are outside of the social security and health systems. Until the end of 2012, within the scope of this program, 40 thousand examinations, 145 thousand examinations, 3400 operations, 6200 days of inpatient treatment were carried out free of charge.
1979-2013 Donations for Social Help;
In 33 years, the foundation has provided support in different dimensions in different areas of social life, including education and health:
*ODTÜ Osman Yazıcı Girls' Dormitory, Ankara
*Tomarza H. Mahmut Özilhan Police Headquarters Building and Housing, Kayseri
*Türkan Özilhan Memorial Forest, Kayseri
*ODTÜ Sports Hall, Ankara
*Technical equipment for the Manuscript Library, Konya
*Mobile blood donation vehicle and ambulance to Kızılay
*Dental treatment and care units for schools
*Istanbul Işık High School Science Laboratory, Istanbul
*Donation of 50 Jawa/Ceylan motorcycles to Istanbul Police Department
* Group Hearing Laboratory/Beyazıt Private School for the Disabled, Istanbul
* Afyon High School, Afyon
* Kayseri Develi Secondary School
* Foreign Language Classroom/Karşıyaka Anatolian High School, İzmir
*Kartal Suzan Yazıcı Emergency Hospital Restoration, Istanbul
*Kartal Suzan Yazıcı Emergency Hospital, 2-storey annex building and 165 m. overpass, Istanbul
*Yuregir E-5 Road Overpass, Adana
*Naciye Yazıcı Indoor Sports Hall, Aksaray
*Earthquake Prefabricated Primary School, Düzce
*2 ambulances to Hacettepe University and Organ Donation Center. Ankara
*Environment and landscaping of İçerenköy PTT Hospital, İstanbul
*Kadıköy Health Education Center, Department of Dentistry, Istanbul
Greater Breakthroughs
Anadolu Health Center is the first move of the Anadolu Health Village investment, initiated by Anadolu Foundation in Gebze at the end of the 1990s. Anadolu Health Ataşehir Medical Center includes polyclinics and emergency services in many branches from pediatric health and diseases to skin diseases, from urology to internal diseases. Anadolu University of Health Sciences and Anadolu Foundation are preparing for the project of the future in health.
Scholarship Program
Anadolu Foundation provides financial support for its scholars with its Scholarship Program, , as well as mentoring on many different issues such as education and career. Anadolu Foundation supports students studying in different cities in Turkey's wide geography. Students from different education programs from education faculty to engineering, from theology faculty to arts faculties benefit from the Foundation's scholarship program.
