That technology and social responsibility can go hand in hand is demonstrated by our partnership with Siemens, of which we are very proud. Thank you, Buy Social, for highlighting our collaboration and the impact we create together! 🤝 We at AfB Group are happy and grateful to contribute to a sustainable future by refurbishing devices and creating meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Here's to many more years of collaboration and positive impact! 🌍💚♻️ #Sustainability #Inclusion #SocialandGreenIT
💡 Social Procurement Case Study 💡 💚 AfB social & green IT is Europe’s largest non-profit IT company. They contribute to the circular economy by collecting, refurbishing and remarketing used IT and mobile devices from corporate clients. But their primary mission is to help people with severe disabilities enter the labor market. Currently, employees with disabilities represent half of the company’s workforce. 🤝 AfB has been partnering with Siemens for over 10 years. What began as a small initiative with one local branch, today has scaled to a nationwide cooperation with Siemens in Germany, covering over 80,000 IT workplaces where hardware needs regular replacement for security or technological reasons. The impact: 💼 14 jobs created for people with disabilities 💻 115,000 devices from Siemens, with a total weight of 678.30 tons, were remanufactured ♻️ 10,780,094 liters of water, 41,989,125 kWh of primary energy and 5,859,159 kg of raw materials were saved thanks to refurbishment, compared to new production. 🔎 Learn more - link in the comments 🔗 🤝 Buy Social Europe B2B is co-funded by the EU within the Single Market Programme and by SAP and implemented in partnership between Euclid Network (EN), SEWF - Social Enterprise World Forum C.I.C., Social Enterprise UK, Yunus Social Business, Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland e.V., Social Enterprise NL, Reach for Change, The Sustainable Procurement Pledge, Zurich Insurance and national country partners. #BuySocialEuropeB2B #SocialProcurement #SocialEntrepreneurship #SustainableProcurement #CaseStudy #Circulareconomy #PartnershipForGood #SustainabilityInAction