In 2020, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mavi Kalem. We have commemorated the work we have been carrying out with the population, children and women affected by disasters and emergencies for 20 years, and we have accumulated excitement for the upcoming work.  The activities initiated by a few volunteers ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we continued to provide consultancy and work with volunteer women through digital platforms. We have seen that the difficulties and inequalities in women’s lives increased even more during this period. This was not a surprising result, we have encountered similar situations in previous disasters. In addition, ...

One of our main goals is to raise awareness of gender-based violence in all our work. In this context, we organize sessions and step into new projects. We have included the internationally accepted 16-day activism, including the 25 November Day of Combating Violence against Women, in our work.  This year, while ...

With the continued impact of the pandemic, it has become difficult for people to reach many basic needs such as health, nutrition and livelihoods.  Within the scope of COVID-19 protection measures, many business areas have been partially or completely shutdown.  This situation increased the number of unemployed people. We followed these processes ...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we opened the Mavi Kalem Hotline so that more people can reach the consultancy services we provide over the phone easily and free of charge.   The Hotline can be accessed from anywhere in Turkey.  This line is available in Turkish, Arabic and Persian. The hotline can ...

            The consultancy services, psychosocial support activities and information sessions of the Women’s Counseling and Solidarity Center have continued on digital platforms with the COVID-19 measures in recent months.             Since October, 2410 calls have reached the Mavi Kalem Hotline and 893 of these calls have been directed to the general counselor ...

We continued to implement most of the October, November and December case follow ups and consultancy services under the Child Protection Project remotely, due to the COVID-19 protection measures.  In this process, where we provide consultancy through our free hotline, we refer beneficiaries to support provided by public institutions or ...

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What are some factors that can increase the effect of COVID-19? Presence of another disease, for example: Hypertension Diabetes Lung diseases Hearth diseases Cancer Chronic kidney and liver diseases Age Especially after 65 years of age, the effect of the disease increases with age. If the factors that can increase ...

Mavi Kalem has distributed food and hygiene products provided by the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality to 150 homes in Fatih and Esenyurt districts. Mavi Kalem continues to provide consultation over phone during the COVID-19 pandemic. Until today, the most prominent request has been money and food support. Because of the COVID-19 ...