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MaviKalem, which has been carrying out women-focused activities since its foundation, has added a new one to its efforts to prevent violence against women. Within the scope of the “Art Against Violence” project, which was implemented with the support of the Embassy of Ireland, painting workshops were held between March ...

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 ...

We exhibited the paintings produced by women in the painting workshops held at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul at the Women’s Festival organised by the Municipality of Avcılar. The volunteers who run the workshops and the women who make the paintings also participated. The paintings were ...

We carry out many activities to prevent violence against women. One of these activities consists of activities we call family meetings where we give messages about the criminality of violence against women. In these activities, we bring together families living in Esenyurt district of Istanbul. The husbands, fathers, brothers, siblings ...

Handicraft and painting workshops conducted by volunteer women at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul have started. These workshops, which are part of our activities with the theme of women coming together, talking, and sharing, and having a pleasant time, started in August. So far, we have ...

MaviKalem has published A Game Impact Analysis Report of An Adventure of a Father of the Family. Our report show the results of our game, which we meticulously produce and monitor by putting on it every year since 2020. An Adventure of the Father of the Family is the first ...

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 ...