Çerkezköy Kadınlar El Ele Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği

National Network
تركيا
Address

Gazi Mustafapaşa mh. Edip Arıcan sk. No: 11
Çerkezköy - Tekirdağ/
تركيا

Telephone
0090 542 3005670
E-Mail
nurhanza@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
The structure of the association: one president, a board of directors (5 people) and 90 members, all of them working as volunteers. The budget consists of 11000TRL membership fee and 2000 TRL by sponsoring mostly by Bosch, Siemens & Colins as well as gratuitously support (for example wash- and sewing machines). Main activities are: workshops (traditional handcraft and sewing courses), traditional handcraft stands in festivals, organisation of concerts, dissemination of modern Turkish literature, seminars, theatre & clown shows, women's education as well as poor women's support by washing and sewing. Main Partners are: City Council, local & regional government, KOSGEB, Cultural Centre Çerkezköy, Kagider (Kadın Girişmcileri Destekleme Derneği), Istanbul (an association for women's education).
Mission and Objectives

Strengthen the situation of women in Çerkezköy and the whole region of Tekirdağ in more or less every field: strengthen their rights, their positions in society, in work, in culture and arts by education and common activities. Fighting against domestic violence by information, social and financial help and by creation of a small women's center in the center of the town. Strong aim is the cooperation with women's associations in Turkey and Europe and to create a women's center together with European partners in Çerkezköy with lodging possibility for women suffering from domestic violence and local restaurant. Strong cooperation with KOSGEB (information courses and help for filling applications for states support for professional independency).

Main Projects / Activities

Participation of 150 women in KOSGEB courses (2009/2010)
Professional assistance for filling applications for states support for women's work independency (2010)
Organisation of "Babalar Günü" concert in Çerkezköy Amphityatro (June 2010)
Organisation of "Nurettin Rencber" concert in Çerkezköy Amphityatro (June 2010)
Organisation of "Cevdet Bağca" concert in Çerkezköy Amphityatro (June 2010)
Organisation of a concert with Tuluyhan Uğurlu, popular Turkish pianist in Sirkeci Trainstation, Istanbul (September 2010)
Meslek Edinme Atölye (Career Training Workshop for women; open course & discurs regularily every month) with "Worker Found Organisation" of Turkish Government
Simat Sokaği (Street Arts) (August 2010 Belediye Merkezi Çerkezköy)
Öğrenci Yönelik Çalişmaları (Solidarity Students Events to help students into profession; regularily in school times since 2008)

Contact (1) Full Name
Nurhan Altıntaş
Head of the organisation
Nurhan Altıntaş
Contact (2) Full Name
Aynur Düzgünel