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Mavi Kalem’s 2022 Trainings of Trainers Commenced Trainings of Trainers (ToTs) of Mavi Kalem’s empowerment series continue. Male Participation for Women’s Empowerment and Girls’ Empowerment workshop series meet and grow with new trainer candidates. Mavi Kalem has two workshop series aimed for empowerment and raising awareness. One of them is ...

We are Coming Together with Families We are gathering with all the members of the family, we feel cheered and strengthened. Within the scope of the information activities of Women’s Consultation Center, we organize events where we meet with beneficiaries’ families. The majority of the activities held at Women’s Consultation ...

Women Are Writing Beautiful Stories! Stories that start with violence and end with empowerment. We set out to make a project where we can talk about the legal rights of women against violence and the conditions and ways in which they can exercise these rights. We wanted to do this ...

While developing our projects, we benefited from the information we heard from women and from their lives.  Since 2000, we have been working to empower women with teams mostly consisting of women. Our work has evolved from the very beginning in close communication with the women and children who benefit ...

We have to open a space to talk about the aggravation of gender inequality and the restriction of women’s access to rights and services in disasters and emergencies. Mavi Kalem organized the Women in Disaster and Emergency Situations Workshop which was held on 16-17 April 2016 in Istanbul. The fact ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity that allows us to develop innovative approaches which we will continue to benefit from. With the declaration of a pandemic in March 2019, we immediately ceased our face-to-face implementations in order not to jeopardize our project teams or beneficiaries. We started ...

The questions and problems of women who called the Mavi Kalem Free Consultation Line were also instrumental in the creation of the ‘COVID-19, Women and Health’ brochure series. We have been conducting various studies on women’s health in disaster and emergency situations for years. The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the ...

We have prepared a video series to make the increasing difficulties in the lives of women during the Covid-19 pandemic more visible. The increase in gender inequality during disasters and emergencies increases the vulnerability of women. As we have encountered in previous disasters and emergencies, the Covid-19 pandemic has made ...

In the Covid-19 pandemic, we have developed a game for men by making use of digital tools. Adventures of a Family Man is a mobile game designed and developed for men, by Mavi Kalem. This game was designed and created with the teams of Mavi Kalem and TCA Games with ...

How did we work in the second year of the pandemic? The second year of the pandemic at Mavi Kalem was another year in which we gained a lot of experience and learned. With what we learned, we reviewed our work and adapted it to new situations, did not hesitate ...