As volunteers of Defacto and Here We Are Hatay Association, we rolled up our sleeves to provide winter clothing support to earthquake-stricken children in Tavla, Baltacık, İskenderun and Samandağ 👧👦 Thanks to the loving efforts of our volunteers, we reached many families and saw big smiles on the faces of the children. A huge thank…
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On 10 September 2023, Mehmet Ali Gümüş, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Yasemin Ece Yiğitdöl, Secretary General of the Board of Directors attended the “Civil Organizations Meet” meeting organized by the Civic Space Action Network. The meeting consisted of two parts with the participation of 18 Civil Organizations. In the first part, we…
The President of Buradayız Hatay Association, Mehmet Ali Gümüş, and General Secretary Yasemin Ece Yiğitdöl held an important meeting with the President of the Hatay Chamber of Commerce, Hikmet Çinçin. During this meeting, the foundation and goals of Buradayız Hatay were discussed in detail. 📈 The Esnaf Project was introduced, and potential areas for collaboration…
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Within the scope of our Buradayız Hocam project, a celebration was held at the Defne Culture House in Tavla with the students and teachers whom we have conducted workshops within the scope of August 30th Victory Day. Members of the Association’s Board of Directors also accompanied this celebration.
We met with 80 students who were adversely affected by the February 6 earthquake at the Defne House in Tavla. We organized support workshops with volunteer teachers in English, Mathematics, and Painting branches. While 50 students studying in the 8th and 12th grades who will take the exam received support from our volunteer teachers about…
We came together with the volunteers of our association living in Hatay, hosted by TEOFARM, and explained the work of our association in detail and exchanged ideas and information about the projects that can be done together and the support that Hatay needs. The event was accompanied by members of our association’s board of directors…
On 26.07.2023 at Yeşil Sazlık Park Serinyol/Antakya, with the contributions of Serinyol Gündem and Yeşil Sazlık Cafe, we organized a summer festival with the participation of 40 children and their parents, with a total of 100 people. Our event content consisted of an Art Workshop, a Drama Workshop, and a Movement Workshop. Fransizka Niehus, who…
Board Member and Educational Support Team Captain Derya Gümüş Türkoğlu, representing our association, attended the event held on July 11 at the Borusan Campus in Sinemasal’s Dursunlu location, in cooperation with Borusan and ImpactHub, as a panel speaker 👥📢 Derya Gümüş Türkoğlu conveyed the work done after the earthquake in Hatay and the current needs….
2 Days Full of Children in Hatay on June 17 and 18 Within the scope of the report card festival, this year, we met with our pre-school and primary school children in Hatay/Serinyol in order to reduce the negative impact of the earthquake, which had a base in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023 and caused…
Photographer Mustafa Gülek brought the earthquake he himself experienced and what he witnessed in Antakya for ten months to a wider audience in the photo exhibition ‘Between Ruins and Rebirth’. The exhibition, which we are happy to be among its supporters, received visitors simultaneously in Paris, Kiel, and Istanbul between February 6, 2024 and February…
