Our Work

Among the activities we have been carrying out in Hatay for a year is a project called “Women Build Their Business”, which we have been implementing for the economic empowerment of disaster-stricken women and their access to income. We support women who want to re-establish the business they lost after ...

MaviKalem’s Women’s Counselling Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul, which started its operations in 2019, continues its activities at full speed this year. This centre works to support all Turkish, migrant and refugee women to access basic rights and services. In the last 4 years, 19 thousand 611 people have ...

After the earthquake in Hatay, areas where women could get away from housework and spend healthy time were also destroyed. We started to install parks in this region where women can relax and exercise in the open air. So far, we have established 3 women’s sports areas in cooperation with ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Handicraft and painting workshops conducted by volunteer women at the Women’s Consultation Centre in Esenyurt district of Istanbul have started. These workshops, which are part of our activities with the theme of women coming together, talking, and sharing, and having a pleasant time, started in August. So far, we have ...

More than a month has passed since the earthquakes. During this period, humanitarian aid efforts increased in earthquake areas. There is still a lot of need and uncertainty about the future, but the survivors are starting to rebuild their lives with little routines. As of February 26th, we established a ...