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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 ...

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 ...

We work to empower women and support their access to basic rights and services. We carry out many activities to prevent violence that women are subjected to by men just because they are women. An important part of these activities are workshops where women are informed about violence against women. ...

MaviKalem was a guest on the Günebakan programme broadcast on TRT Radyo1 on 12 October. In the programme, we talked about the mobile game “Adventures of a Family Father” (2021) produced by MaviKalem and the Game Impact Analysis Report (2023) on its impact on men. MaviKalem Board Member, Social Psychologist ...

Women’s Consultation Centre bulletin published MaviKalem’s Women’s Consultation Centre has published a bulletin about the activities carried out at the Women’s Consultation Centre. You can read the bulletin, which includes the activities carried out at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul between January and June, here.  

We supported 80 children to access their basic needs and 112 children to access services On the morning of February 6th, two earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7 and 7.6 occurred in Kahramanmaraş. According to official data, 50,783 people lost their lives, 115,353 people were injured and 37,984 buildings were ...

Since the day we were founded, we have been carrying out women-oriented work. An important part of our efforts to empower women is to support refugee women. We organize various activities to support refugee women to get to know the environment and culture they live in, to share their own ...

We are working to strengthen local non-governmental organizations. In this context, we organize meetings between organizations that allow sharing of knowledge and experience, thinking and learning together. In the first step of these meetings, we hosted the associations we work with in our offices in the Marmara region and shared ...