MaviKalem’s Women’s Counselling Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul, which started its operations in 2019, continues its activities at full speed this year. This centre works to support all Turkish, migrant and refugee women to access basic rights and services. In the last 4 years, 19 thousand 611 people have ...

After the earthquake in Hatay, areas where women could get away from housework and spend healthy time were also destroyed. We started to install parks in this region where women can relax and exercise in the open air. So far, we have established 3 women’s sports areas in cooperation with ...

We support the economic empowerment of women who lost their jobs after the earthquake in Hatay. We support women who want to re-establish the businesses they lost after the earthquake or who want to develop the businesses they have established with their own efforts, by providing them with the most ...

A gender equality approach is at the heart of all the work we carry out. As a 23-year-old women’s organisation, we have been working with men for 5 years. What we mean by a women’s organisation is as follows: 90 percent of our colleagues are women, we work for women’s ...

In the last 6 years, we have reached 123,390 people in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Adana with our 6 child protection-focused projects supported by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). In our projects, we carried out child protection activities aimed at enabling children to reach their needs. We produced and ...

Following the February 6 earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, which affected 11 provinces, MaviKalem began disaster response activities in Hatay on February 25. We have conducted and are conducting our work in effective communication with women disaster survivors. We take care to approach problems and needs from a woman’s perspective. This approach ...

MaviKalem’s Hatay Representative Office, MaviKalem’s second representative office after Adana, started its activities on December 21. Following the earthquakes that struck Turkey on February 6, we went to Hatay, one of the provinces that suffered major devastation, to take part in the support efforts. While our work in the region ...

The first of the exhibitions within the scope of the “Art Against Violence!” project implemented by MaviKalem was held in Büyükada on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The exhibition, which was held at Büyükada Taş Mektep on 25-26 November with the cooperation of the ...

MaviKalem, which has been carrying out women-focused activities since its foundation, has added a new one to its efforts to prevent violence against women. Within the scope of the “Art Against Violence” project, which was implemented with the support of the Embassy of Ireland, painting workshops were held between March ...

MaviKalem has been providing support to women, children and disaster survivors since the day it was founded. On 6 February, following the earthquakes that devastated the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey, we started working in Hatay and Adana. Our support work started with the distribution of necessities in ...