Yeni Dersane St. No:8
34664 Murat Reis /İstanbul
Turkey
- Gender
The aim of the association is to identify the current situation and problems of women, youth and children, to produce solutions-oriented projects that will improve their legal, social, political and economic assets, to provide dialogue, communication, solidarity, cooperation and assistance between individuals and groups, to work for the personal development of women and young people. To equip them in terms of education and training and to support them financially and morally. For this aim, we develop projects, organize seminars and workshops, and give scholarship to women university students. The association have three staff employed full-time, and 100 members and is based in Uskudar/Istanbul. The association operates in the social, cultural, educational, scientific and economic fields. Our sources of funding are the subscription fee, donations.
Our mission is in a changing world;
Knowing how to make sense of the universal and the local in the context of consistent principles and values,
To be emphatetic, valuable, prudent, respectful, thoughtful,
Recognizing respect for human rights with its religious and moral priority rather than being a legal and political issue,
To accept solidarity, respect and friendship as the basis of living together with different cultures, ideas and beliefs and creating a whole from these differences,
To serve the ultimate and real purpose of politics, not as a political power, but as a social benefit and transformation,
To be an active and responsible citizen in the narrow sense by existing in the field of civil society, and to be aware of “taking the trust” in the broader framework.
Knowing that the broadest framework of meaning we can establish with our being and action will only emerge from our personal journey and actions.
As an association leading by women, we develop projects. Our main projects are:
Wo/Men for Women funded by EU: Wo/men for Women is a branch project under “Struggle Against Domestic Violence Project” conducted by Ministry of Family and Social Policies. In our community where violence against women occurs so severely, the purpose of this project is to contribute elimination of violence against women and raise awareness about gender based violence.
Being Woman in Europe: We organized a panel about being woman in Europe. Woman academicians and activists who lives in Europe and Turkey attended to this panel. We determined the mutual problems, risks, oppurtunities achievements of European Women.
Because I am a Child: The project, which took place in Istanbul for a year in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and the Hazar Association, aimed to raise awareness about child neglect and abuse.
Online Discoverers in Workshop funded by EU: The aim of the project is to support the physical, cognitive and emotional development of children by providing an informal education program that is kept away during the pandemic and to support social cohesion by bringing Syrian and Turkish children together. I conducted an informal education program for the children between 8-10 years old.
Reading Club with Refugee Women: We have a reading club happening every week with a moderator.
1- We trust our digital skills. During pandemic, we improved our virtual communication skills, we are capable of leading any kind of online gathering. Our social media accounts are also well-organized.
2- As an association leading by women, we have connections with several women organizations in Turkey.
3- As an association working also on immigration issues, we have communications with organizations working with refugees.
We think that ALF's purpose and values correspond with our purpose and values. We care about diversity, building a culture based on dialogue and exchange, being inclusive and supporting women empowerment. We believe that we can connect good relationships with ALF and develop projects together.