Our online activities continue. Every week, we gather with children with certain themes. In our previous activities, we observed that children were able to express themselves more easily by painting. In the Colored Paints activity, children expressed their feelings by drawing pictures about a living thing, person, or object that ...

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we moved the face-to-face consultancy services we provide in offices to Mavi Kalem’s free Consultation Line in order to respond to needs more quickly. The consultation line can be reached from any region of Turkey, and we provide services in Turkish and ...

Mavi Kalem collaborates to strengthen the non-governmental organizations established by refugees from Afghan and Turkic Republics under the umbrella of the Eurasian Turkish Associations Federation. In Turkey, large numbers of refugees from Afghan and Turkic Republics face serious difficulties and do not have access to many basic services. In addition ...

As a result of Turkey, Canada and Peru’s application to the United Nations on October 11, 2012, the International Day of the Girl Child was declared. International Day of the Girl Child aims to highlight the importance of preventing discrimination against girls and their empowerment and full and effective enjoyment ...

While developing our projects, we benefited from the information we heard from women and from their lives.  Since 2000, we have been working to empower women with teams mostly consisting of women. Our work has evolved from the very beginning in close communication with the women and children who benefit ...

We have to open a space to talk about the aggravation of gender inequality and the restriction of women’s access to rights and services in disasters and emergencies. Mavi Kalem organized the Women in Disaster and Emergency Situations Workshop which was held on 16-17 April 2016 in Istanbul. The fact ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity that allows us to develop innovative approaches which we will continue to benefit from. With the declaration of a pandemic in March 2019, we immediately ceased our face-to-face implementations in order not to jeopardize our project teams or beneficiaries. We started ...

The questions and problems of women who called the Mavi Kalem Free Consultation Line were also instrumental in the creation of the ‘COVID-19, Women and Health’ brochure series. We have been conducting various studies on women’s health in disaster and emergency situations for years. The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the ...

We have prepared a video series to make the increasing difficulties in the lives of women during the Covid-19 pandemic more visible. The increase in gender inequality during disasters and emergencies increases the vulnerability of women. As we have encountered in previous disasters and emergencies, the Covid-19 pandemic has made ...

In the Covid-19 pandemic, we have developed a game for men by making use of digital tools. Adventures of a Family Man is a mobile game designed and developed for men, by Mavi Kalem. This game was designed and created with the teams of Mavi Kalem and TCA Games with ...