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Our Projects – supporting women’s business start-ups and entrepreneurship, sustainable and clean farming practices for agricultural workers, understanding commercial regulations, and empowering women through solidarity- continue in Hatay.   As Women Access Income They Gain Strength In Production Methods, Marketing, And Commercial Legislation In July 2025, two new projects began ...

We continue to implement “Women Write Beautiful Stories” information kit which we developed in 2021 with a woman-to-woman information dissemination technique to prevent violence against women. In this project, women learn about their legal rights against violence and share them with each other.   In 2022, MaviKalem developed the “Women ...

A new round of Turkish language courses has begun within our Enhancing education and wellbeing for vulnerable girls and boys and families in Istanbul Project. We support refugee children living in Esenyurt, Istanbul, to continue their education by reinforcing their Turkish language skills through these courses. Developed in collaboration with ...

The “Access to Education” project, which we have been running for 16 months with children in Esenyurt, continues in the Istanbul’s most populous and most migrant-influenced district. Needs are being reviewed and support is being provided for the new academic year.     MaviKalem is implementing an “Access to Education” ...

We conducted a field study to understand refugee women’s level of access to services and their thoughts on returning to Syria. Between January and March 2025, we carried out a field study to understand the current needs and perspectives of refugee and asylum-seeking women regarding access to services and return ...

The exhibition booklet of the “Women Tell Their Stories” project, which we carried out as MaviKalem in Hatay following the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake, has been published. Since the earthquake, through our “Women Start Their Own Business” program in Hatay, MaviKalem has been supporting both women’s empowerment and the ...

Our “Women Start Their Own Business” Program Continues with New Support Since 2023, we have been running the “Women Start Their Own Business” program in Hatay to support women affected by the earthquake in accessing income opportunities. With this program, we aimed to support women taking their first steps toward ...

“Women Tell Their Stories” Women’s Stories Met Art in Hatay   The Women Tell Their Stories project was developed to create a space for women living in Hatay to express their post-earthquake experiences through art after the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. Within the scope of MaviKalem’s Women Start Their ...

  The “From Crisis to Development: Women Reproduce” project, which aims to support women’s access to income in Hatay, has officially launched. Supported by Turkish Philanthropy Funds (TPF), the project will provide tools, equipment, and material support to 30 women producers and empower hundreds more through consultancy and solidarity meetings. ...

Since MaviKalem started working with Syrian refugees in Istanbul in 2017, it has been conducting various field researches to learn about current needs and to structure our work based on the analysis of these needs. With this approach, we conducted a field research between January and March 2025 to determine ...