Newsletter

Water is Life: Access to Clean Water in Hatay After the February 6 earthquake, access to clean water in Hatay has become one of the biggest challenges facing earthquake survivors in the region. Due to the damage to the infrastructure, there are serious contamination problems in tap water. This situation ...

 MaviKalem Women’s Counseling Center: Meeting Point for Women MaviKalem’s Women’s Counseling Center in Esenyurt is getting stronger every day thanks to the solidarity between women. The women’s network that has formed around the project has become an integral part of both the project and the services provided to the women ...

Women Started Their Business!  In Hatay, we provided basic tools, equipment, and material support to 50 women to establish or develop their businesses within the scope of the “Let Women Reach Income Project”. In the project, we aimed to empower women and generate income. We selected women who met the ...

One year after the earthquake, Needs Still Persist in Hatay! After the earthquake in Hatay, we distributed basic hygiene materials, dry food and breakfast products as well as blankets and oil radiators to 1703 households within the scope of the Supporting Families Project due to the challenging winter conditions. Our ...

How did the first 3 months of 2024 go in our Women’s Counselling Centre and Mentoring Project? Since the beginning of 2024, our project includes social cohesion activities to support the relationship between the local community and refugees. Within the scope of the project, there are also protection activities focusing ...

Turkish Language Courses continue at our Women’s Counselling Centre Refugee women have shown great interest in the Turkish courses held at MaviKalem Esenyurt Women’s Counselling Centre since 2019. While Turkish courses continue every year due to the intense demands of refugee women; refugee women who want to go to the ...

Among the activities we have been carrying out in Hatay for a year is a project called “Women Build Their Business”, which we have been implementing for the economic empowerment of disaster-stricken women and their access to income. We support women who want to re-establish the business they lost after ...

To keep the violence that women are subjected to just because they are women on the agenda and to enable women to express their reactions to violence through painting, we carried out a project: “Art Against Violence” project. Within the scope of this 2023 project, women in Istanbul, Adana and ...

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 ...