ISTIKLAL CADDESI NO 108 AZNAVUR PASAJI KAT 5 GALATASARAY 34430
ISTANBUL/
Turkey
- International/Cultural relations
Genctur is a social entreprise which is established in 1979. Main field of work is youth and it aimed to develop opportunities for the young to have all kinds of experiences abroad and in Turkey to support their individual and social developments. The activities of Genctur are international voluntary work camps, social projects abroad, Youth in Action Projects and EVS. Besides, it organizes international voluntary work camps in cooperation with several local administrations in Turkey.
It wants to be a medium for the young to contribute to the world peace by seeing and knowing different cultures, to support their involvement in domestic and abroad, and to contribute to their cultural development and know their own and other countries cultures. Since its foundation, approximately 300.000 people involved in Genctur's programmes. Furthermore, 1500 workcamps are organised in all around Turkey.
1) VOLUNTARY WORKCAMPS
GENÇTUR offers international voluntary workcamps as a unique form of voluntary service for all the people aged 18 and over from different countries, cultures and backgrounds to work for the benefit of the local communities or NGO’s. Approximately 750 young people are sent to international work camps in 85 countries every year and around 350 foreign young people are hosted in workcamps organized by GENÇTUR in all over Turkey.
2) LONG TERM VOLUNTEER PROJECTS
*CSV - Long term volunteering is a good and very popular way for Turkish young people to go abroad. GENÇTUR has the pleasure to offer different possibilities to the Turkish youth on this purpose. Community Service Volunteer (CSV) in England is a long lasting partner of GENÇTUR since 1981. Up today 850 Turkish young people have been benefited this opportunity.
*IJGD - We have opened a new field for Turkish youth on long term volunteering by adding the Freiwilliger Sociales Jahr Program in Germany by IJGD for 10 years.
*EVS – European Voluntary Service is a new and a uniuqe way for young Turkish people to volunteer in NGOs in the EU countries. All expenses are paid by the Youth in Action program gunds. GENÇTUR which was accredired by the Turkish National Agency in 2007 is sending around 176 Turkish volunteers annually for EVS.
Genctur has different partner from diffirent countries so we have very exhaustive network. We would like to produce project and we to be partner other projects. We would like to introduce Turkey to other nationalities.
We organise training work-shop , project with national and inter-national partner .We can share our project with your network .
Genctur is one of the big NGO in Turkey. We would like to contact with other organization all over the word , ALF is very good opportunity for us . We foced specially youth and civil society which are same aim with you .