This project, under the Community Volunteers Foundation, started with online game workshops for children aged 7-12 who struggle with socialization and equal educational opportunities in schools. These workshops involve various activities conducted over three sessions with the same group every Sunday. Post-pandemic, these workshops transitioned to monthly face-to-face sessions. Volunteers work with school counselors and principals to create a comfortable, safe, and beneficial environment for the selected students. The workshop content is kept uniform to maintain an egalitarian approach among the children.
Four Sub-Projects:
Activities The project connects children affected by earthquakes through the power of play. Since March 16, the project team has reached over 120 children aged 3-14 through three field activities in Maraş Elbistan. Before deploying, the team undergoes training in psychological first aid, first aid, child protection in disaster areas, and picture analysis.
To be a role model for children who have been dragged into crime, to help them reintegrate into society, to do various activities with them where they can discover their talents, to ensure that they spend their time more efficiently during the time they spend away from their families and homes, to prevent them from turning to the same crime again and to support them so that they can continue their lives as healthy individuals after their sentence is over.
For this purpose, we plan to establish activities with them through various workshops we will establish in prisons. Children are the cornerstone of a society. If we want to correct something wrong in society, we can do it best with children who are happier and look to the future with hope. As the poet Nazım Hikmet said, "Let's give the world to children, let's give it to them like a big apple, like a warm loaf of bread. Let them at least be fed for a day, let them learn the friendship of the world, even if only for a day. Children will take the world from us, they will plant immortal trees". Children are our hope, so we want to be their hope too.
A child's upbringing, the educational level of their parents, the environment in which they grow up, the teachers they look up to are all factors that will affect their future life, and considering that children dragged into crime in penal institutions have to stay away from their families, homes and schools for a certain period of time, we can conclude that they need more support in this regard. For this reason, we want to come together with the children there and help them participate in social life as self-confident, sensitive individuals who recognize their interests and skills through the activities we will carry out. If we can provide some benefit to the children there, we will have achieved our goal and our goal is to reach out to as many children as possible and make a positive impact on their lives.
Hope for Children with a Stitch Project is a project implemented by Community Volunteer youth to reach children between the ages of 7-14 who have to live in cold weather and winter conditions and support them by knitting scarves and beanies. Within the scope of the project, online and face-to-face knitting workshops are held and scarves and berets are knitted. Nako has sponsored the project by providing yarn support since last year. The project continues to move forward with different Community Volunteers communities across Turkey. In 2021-2022, 400 scarves and 400 beanies were knitted and delivered to children at a school in Mardin/Midyat Çavuşlu.
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