Kum Saati Egitim Genclik Kadin ve Sosyal Yardim Dernegi (Kum Saati Association of Education Youth Woman and Social Development)

We made a Euro-Med Project:
* Behind the Shapes: With this project it is aimed to make young people discuss the problems that they encounter and find concrete solutions for those problems which prevent them being a real part of the social life.
To promote dialogue between civil societies of Turkish and EU counterparts on Culture and Arts
To develop opportunities for cultural and artistic operators
To learn about activities from our foreign partners and create similar possibilities in our country.
To give information on cultural characteristics of teenagers of our country and learn more about their cultures.
To encourage the acquisition of new and better personal skills for young people and their associations.
To promote knowledge about European and Mediterranean common values.
Promoting cultural dialogue and understanding each other on Culture and Arts
To strengthen the emergence of stronger active participation in active citizenship
Find out the young people prejudices about gender equality in different countries.
To find out how is the equality of woman and man in other countries.
To create solutions against inequality of woman and man, emphasize the importance human rights, respect.
To enlarge the social and economical possibilities of women in our country.
To share participants’ idea about equality at education, family, work and media.
Work on conflict issue and dialogue by art.
Providing non-formal intercultural learning opportunities for young people.
Supporting new projects and partnerships about this topic in different countries.
To promote gender balance in every part of our lives.
Enhancing the skills of young people including interpersonal skills.
* Our Second Project: Happy People Healthy Lives:
With this project we try to solve:
• Health problems in our region and teach solutions to our civils.
• Current communication problems between NGO’s
• Having more prejudice problems rural areas and the responsibility of getting over this
• Misknowledge of our country in European Union member countries
• Not being able to do mutual activities with different countries’ civil societies, cooperation problem
• Same organizations always make great events, lack of innovative methods
• Small organizations remain incapable of executing international projects
• Sample projects showing that small organizations can also improve themselves by communication networks
*3rd Project: Brotherhood in the Nature:
To support established partnerships and to promote dialogue
To cooperate with each other as well as the organizations working in the field of Culture and Arts
Promoting cultural dialogue and understanding each other on Culture and Arts
To provide opportunities for institutions and organizations operating in the field of Culture and Arts to cooperate with each other as well as the other organizations in different regions and countries.
To make a art gallery about environment
To ensure Turkey and its history and culture to be known and understood in European Union and thus to raise better awareness on opportunities and challenges of future enlargements
Promotes young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular
Fosters mutual understanding between young people in different countries
Contributes to developing the quality of support systems for youth activities and the capabilities of civil society organizations in the youth field
Fight against racism and xenophobia
Education through sport and outdoor activities
To carry out a survey on teenagers about gender equality in their countries
Producing solutions against prejudices and stereotypes
To promote the participants gender balance in international projects.
Giving young people opportunities to take an active part in the development of the society and to express their personal commitment.