Youth Access Association

National Network
Türkiye
Address

Bahçelievler Mah. Işıkyonder Cad. Hızır Yazıcı Apt. No:16 D:3 Site
Zonguldak/
Turkey

Telephone
00905548327563
Telephone (other)
00905413249897
E-Mail
yia.gerisim@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
kazimhasirci@yahoo.com
E-Mail (3)
egemensemih@gmail.com
E-Mail (4)
ozkantopaloglu91@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2011
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Environment/Sustainable development
  3. Gender
  4. Human rights
  5. International/Cultural relations
  6. Media
  7. Research
  8. Youth and education
General Information
Our association works with young people, creates learning platform and ideal places to improve young people's ability to understand each other both locally and internationally and give them a space for their personal development. We have 150 member and 7 full time staff, also we work with different kind of NGO both in Local and International Project. Until this time, we worked with 30 foreign NGO (sending/ hosting project) and 15 Local NGO( Municipalities, non-governmental NGO's). We got funding from different kind of sources such as National Agency, Municipality of Youth and Sports, Developmental Agency of Turkey, the total costs of project is changing project by project, started from 25.00 Euros to 250.00 euros. Our main partners are, Turkish National Agency, West-Anatolia Developmental Agency, Ministery of Youth and Sport, European Youth Society Association, Eurodesk.
Mission and Objectives

The Association contributes to the personal development of young people by encouraging them to participate in social responsibility projects as volunteers. In doing so, it increases young people’s community involvement on a voluntary basis.

Main Projects / Activities

-Trains trainers who implement peer to peer trainings on subjects such as volunteerism, project management, human rights, social rights, reproductive health, health literacy and organizational management.
-Empower children and young people to develop their creativity and innovative.
-Facilitate self-determined and self organised ways of living for children and young people with special consideration for the socially disadvantaged.
-Promote in the democratic participation of young people in the decision making process
-Encourage young people to get involved in activities of the civil society and promote in building a tolerant, democratic and non-violent society.
-Offers face to face support to university student clubs according to their needs.
-Creates a learning environment that increases youth mobility, which in turn supports learning from other young people and youth organizations.
-Supports young people’s ideas on social problems specific to their projects and helps them find financing for these projects.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can contribute this network to share our previous experiences, training materials, researches documents about young people, assist to prepare international or national programme in Turkey etc.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to join ALF network because of improving our ability to work with NGOs' who are the part of ALF network, our new strategy is to create international/intercultural project in EuroMed area.It will be great opportunity for us to join this network in order to create new partnership, learning from each other, easily get contact with these NGo's, to see best practices in these areas.

Contact (1) Full Name
Egemen Semih Sönmez
Head of the organisation
Kazım HASIRCI
Contact (2) Full Name
Özkan Topaloğlu