Mavi Kalem Association

Project completed

Mavi Kalem works for the empowerment of women and children, their access to fundamental rights and services, rights-oriented support for the population affected by disasters and emergencies, and the implementation of international humanitarian aid principles. For 20 years, it has been carrying out activities in the light of the principles of child safety, gender sensitivity and gender equality.  It ensures the quality of work by bringing together different disciplines and expertise. It carries out community-based awareness-raising and empowerment activities in different fields, through a participatory approach, by involving target groups in the development of activities.

Mavi Kalem is active in Istanbul and Kocaeli regions. Through its free hotline, it provides counselling services to beneficiaries from all over Türkiye in line with their needs within the scope of the work of MK.

Women Consultation Centre and Mentorship for Local NGOs

About the project

The overall objectives of the project are to support access to rights and services, to strengthen community-based protection mechanisms and to improve implementation capacities of local initiatives.

The project is implemented in Esenyurt district of Istanbul province, which is the district with the highest population since 2018 with the ratio of migrants within the total population being 957,398 is 24.3%. The project aims to support women’s participation in social life, to strengthen their capacity to cope with gender-based violence, to establish solidarity mechanisms with volunteer/peer support and to ensure that these mechanisms are sustainable. To achieve this goal, MK aims to mainstream gender equality in all phases of the design, planning and implementation of the project, to reflect women’s perspective and to ensure that affected communities actively participate in all phases.

Planned activities

  • Development activities (Socialisation and Cohesion Meetings, Turkish Language Education)
  • Protection activities (Individual Protection Support, Case Management, Counselling, Individual Psychological Support, PSS Activities, Referrals)
  • Awareness raising and empowerment activities (Community-Based Volunteer Network, Information Dissemination, Awareness-raising and empowerment activities on GBV, Information Dissemination)
  • Other activities (Digital Neighborhood Application, Workshop on women’s studies in the pandemic period, Supporting the well-being of the project team, Radio shows)

Esenyurt, İstanbul

Protection

Social Cohesion

Non-formal Education

Women and children from refugee and host communities

Social cohesion activities (Neighbour needs the voice of her neighbour), Turkish language courses, ISMEK/pecs art and vocational training courses, case management and counselling services, individual and group PSS, information dissemination and awareness raising activities, digital neighbourhood mobile application, radio programs

Mavi Kalem is the mentor of the Marmara 2 Bundle.

Contact Details

Yavuz Sultan Selim Mah. Cibali Cad. No:31 Fatih / İstanbul
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