Sharing Goodness

According to UNICEF and the World Bank one out of six children in the world lives under the deep poverty line (below hunger level.) 2015 statistics show Turkey second among the OECD countries on child poverty. Turkey stopped providing data from 2015 on. We are fully aware that child support is a fundamental right, and this multidimensional problem must be addressed with utmost care and a wide perspective. Nevertheless, with the resources we have we try to provide support for struggling families and children as much as we can.

  • Scholarships: From 2016 on we provide scholarships for the academically accomplished students lacking financial resources. At the beginning of each school year, we assess the scholarship applications very carefully, and in accordance with our resources, try to increase the number of students on grants.
  • Natural Disasters Support Funds: We provide financial and material support in natural disasters like earthquakes, fires, and floods. We help affected schools and children in the post disaster zone.
  • Financial Support for the Families with Children in Need: We help families affected by disasters, pandemics, and health conditions for a limited period to help children get back to school.
  • Stationary Supplies Support: With the demand of the teachers who inform us about the families in need, at the beginning of the school year we send stationary supplies to schools around the country.
  • Winter Clothes Support: Every winter, teachers from disadvantaged regions of Turkey send us lists and sizes of children whose families cannot afford to buy warm clothes, and we send them sets made of boots, coats, gloves, scarves, and hats addressed to each individual child.
  • Groceries Support: Prior to religious holidays we receive specific donations in the form of Fitre- Zekat and Kurban . We transfer these funds as sets of groceries supplies to the families of the children in need, based on the information we get directly from the school.
  • Newborn Baby Sets Support: We prepare gift sets that have been artfully crafted by our volunteers as donations to our association and take these to Maternity Clinics in various cities.
  • Hygienic Products Support: A campaign that specifically targets adolescent girls, to distribute to them hygienic materials for their special days, coordinated with the support of the psychological counselors of the schools.

A group of children in their new shoes