In the last 6 years, we have reached 123,390 people in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Adana with our 6 child protection-focused projects supported by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). In our projects, we carried out child protection activities aimed at enabling children to reach their needs. We produced and ...

Following the February 6 earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, which affected 11 provinces, MaviKalem began disaster response activities in Hatay on February 25. We have conducted and are conducting our work in effective communication with women disaster survivors. We take care to approach problems and needs from a woman’s perspective. This approach ...

MaviKalem’s Hatay Representative Office, MaviKalem’s second representative office after Adana, started its activities on December 21. Following the earthquakes that struck Turkey on February 6, we went to Hatay, one of the provinces that suffered major devastation, to take part in the support efforts. While our work in the region ...

The first of the exhibitions within the scope of the “Art Against Violence!” project implemented by MaviKalem was held in Büyükada on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The exhibition, which was held at Büyükada Taş Mektep on 25-26 November with the cooperation of the ...

MaviKalem, which has been carrying out women-focused activities since its foundation, has added a new one to its efforts to prevent violence against women. Within the scope of the “Art Against Violence” project, which was implemented with the support of the Embassy of Ireland, painting workshops were held between March ...

MaviKalem has been providing support to women, children and disaster survivors since the day it was founded. On 6 February, following the earthquakes that devastated the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions of Turkey, we started working in Hatay and Adana. Our support work started with the distribution of necessities in ...

We work to empower women and support their access to basic rights and services. We carry out many activities to prevent violence that women are subjected to by men just because they are women. An important part of these activities are workshops where women are informed about violence against women. ...

MaviKalem was a guest on the Günebakan programme broadcast on TRT Radyo1 on 12 October. In the programme, we talked about the mobile game “Adventures of a Family Father” (2021) produced by MaviKalem and the Game Impact Analysis Report (2023) on its impact on men. MaviKalem Board Member, Social Psychologist ...

Women’s Consultation Centre bulletin published MaviKalem’s Women’s Consultation Centre has published a bulletin about the activities carried out at the Women’s Consultation Centre. You can read the bulletin, which includes the activities carried out at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul between January and June, here.  

We exhibited the paintings produced by women in the painting workshops held at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul at the Women’s Festival organised by the Municipality of Avcılar. The volunteers who run the workshops and the women who make the paintings also participated. The paintings were ...