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  MaviKalem has been an active member of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) Network since 2014, maintaining its commitment to the principles of transparency and accountability in humanitarian aid. In this context, MaviKalem participated in the introduction meeting of Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) 2024 Turkish Edition and shared its work, ...

  Zeynep is 11 years old. She started school after coming to Turkey from Syria with her family. She loves math, but she feels she is falling behind because she cannot fully understand her teacher in class. She gets excited when she must stand up at the blackboard and cannot ...

  MaviKalem continues to organize new campaigns to support women producers, help them reach more people with their products and empower them economically. Within the framework of the “Women Access Income” program, MaviKalem’s Instagram and YouTube accounts were created to strengthen the sales channels of women producers, and the kadinisi.org ...

Two years have passed since the February 6 earthquakes. While the earthquake brought great destruction, it also started a new process in which women rebuilt their lives in solidarity. MaviKalem, which considers supporting women in their efforts to rebuild their lives in this process as one of its main goals, ...

MaviKalem’s 13th Ordinary General Assembly convened in Istanbul on Sunday, March 16, 2025. During the meeting, MaviKalem’s activities carried out in 2024 were evaluated in various aspects, while the 2025 goals and new activities planned to be carried out were shared with the participants. It was emphasized that MaviKalem’s long-developed ...

Ayşe’s mother says, “My daughter wants to go to school very much, but we cannot support her financially. It is difficult for us to meet her school needs such as bags and stationery,” Ayşe’s mother says. “I really want her to go to school, but there is nothing we can ...

  Basic Needs Distributions In 2024, we continued to distribute to people affected by the earthquake in Hatay, especially women, children and people with difficulties in accessing support. Around 50,000 people were reached with necessities. We distributed hygiene kits, baby kits, dry food, blankets and radiators. Distributions were made in ...

Our Head Office is now in Kadıköy! We left our field work in our offices and moved to Kadıköy as an administrative office. It was not easy to say goodbye to our old neighborhood; it was also very difficult for us to leave behind all the memories and efforts we ...

The Women Access to Income Program emerged as a result of field feedback and observations in Hatay, one of the provinces most affected by the February 6 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes. In the program, we aimed to provide support for women’s empowerment, income generation and combating women’s poverty. After the earthquake, women ...

In 2024, 12,000 women benefited from the services of Esenyurt Women’s Counseling Center.  Service recipients were Turkish and refugee women, and services were provided bilingually in Turkish and Arabic. Women were provided with general counseling on education, health, basic needs and legal issues, referral to public institutions, accompaniment and interpretation ...