June, 2024

• 5 June

  Women Started Their Business! 

  

  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 ...

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• 5 June

  One year after the earthquake, Needs Still Persist in Hatay!

  

  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 ...

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• 5 June

  How did the first 3 months of 2024 go in our Women’s Counselling Centre and Mentoring Project?

  

  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 ...

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• 5 June

  Turkish Language Courses continue at our Women’s Counselling Centre

  

  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 ...

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March, 2024

• 7 March

  Women disaster survivors regain their jobs: 44 women received the tools they required

  

  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 ...

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• 7 March

  We are now exhibiting women’s drawings against violence digitally: art.mavikalem.org

  

  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 ...

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• 7 March

  More than 13 thousand women benefited from the Women’s Counselling Centre in 4 years

  

  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 ...

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• 7 March

  We are establishing parks in the earthquake zone where women can exercise and breathe outdoors

  

  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 ...

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January, 2024

• 23 January

  We support disaster-affected women in Hatay to start and develop their businesses

  

  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 ...

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• 23 January

  We continue our awareness-raising activities for men for women’s empowerment

  

  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 ...

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