Hong Kong SAR, November 22, 2021: Today the ICTI Ethical Toy Program released the impact report for its 2021 Family-Friendly Spaces Program, the multi-beneficial social initiative designed to improve the lives of manufacturing workers while producing measurable business benefits for manufacturing businesses and their partners. The report outlines the impacts and achievements created by the program, in its sixth year of operation.

Highlights from the impact report:

- A total of 3,200 children and 3,700 working parents received childcare support from the program in the last 6 years
- 31% of migrant parent workers have left a job in the past to take care of their children
- 89% of workers were less worried about their children because of the program
- 94% of workers who participated in the program said they plan to stay in the factory for two years or more
- 63% of participants said their family bond has strengthened thanks to the program
- 100% of managers said the program helped reduce turnover rate (labor shortage challenge)


About the Family-Friendly Spaces (FFS) Program:

- The program was initially created to support the “left-behind children” in Mainland China, a phenomenon which continues to evolve as domestic migrant parent workers have now begun to relocate their children to the towns they work in, creating different kinds of childcare needs
- Companies are inspired with tools to improve employee wellbeing and find solutions to ease operational challenges within the supply chain
- All participating manufacturing businesses (factories) invested to transform areas of their premises into safe, colorful, and fun activity spaces for the children
- The Family-Friendly Spaces program hosted its first writing competition this year, collecting first-hand experiences from children, parents, volunteers and factory management which were transformed into an inspiring bilingual booklet.

The Family-Friendly Spaces program has proven to be a sustainable model for businesses of all sizes, producing measurable impacts, meaningful engagement & experiences for all involved, including working parents, children, employers, and sponsors.

To download the impacts and achievements report, https://bit.ly/3Dq0lDF
To read first-hand stories shared by the participants, https://bit.ly/3GJQE4Z



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