At Orana we’re working with several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including goal number 5 about equality.
We work specifically to increase opportunities for our many female workers so they can achieve a healthy work-life balance.
One example is our factory in Vietnam where we produce fruit based commodities for industrial use.
Fifty percent of the workers are female, and women hold seventy percent of the leadership positions.
A past problem for us in Vietnam was that women quit their jobs either when they married or by the time they had children -
which meant that all the money we spent on training them, were lost when we had to find replacement to be trained for the same job.
To solve the problem of a high employee turnover of the women of Orana Vietnam, we introduced a Danish workday.
Work is only Monday through Friday, and Saturday is a day off even though it’s traditionally a Vietnamese workday.
In addition, the workday ends at 4pm which allows the women to pick up their children from daycare and enjoy family time in the evenings.
The best assistance to third world countries is to create sustainable business.
Many businesses think that working with the SDGs costs money, but it doesn’t have to.
We can only recommend other companies to work with the SDGs and assist in sustainable development.