Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009 Youth in Turkey: Shaping Our Future 20 projects were awarded on May 21, 2009 in Istanbul at the final stage of the Development Marketplace Competition, organized by the World Bank under the theme Youth in Turkey: Shaping Our Future. After the award ceremony, a busy period was started both for the awarded pro- jects and the World Bank Ankara office. The contract period was easy and smooth. Neces- sary official documents were asked from the pro- ject owners and the con- tracts of 20 projects were signed at the end of June The first payments were done at the beginning of July and the projects of- ficially started to be im- plemented on July 2009. Due to the contracts and the projects: 17 projects are for 12 months and will be fin- ished on July 2010. 2 projects are for 3 months; these projects ended in September. 1 project is for 9 months and this project will be finished at the end of March 2010 By the time, in order to support the project owners better and give then tech- nical assistance during their implementation proc- ess a monitoring and evaluation team was estab- lished in Ankara. In order to support the work of this team an online MIS- Management Information System was created. MIS enabled the project owners to receive quick answer for their questions, requests, receive docu- ments to be used for the reporting, capacity building, etc, receive announcements from World Bank. Until today, 25 announcements were done, 20 documents were uploaded, 300 ques- tions were replied, 126 minor changes requests were replied through MIS. Beside the online support tool, the monitoring ex- perts give support on the field to the projects. The monitoring visits of the projects were started and until today 11 projects were visited on the field. The monitoring visits will continue in March 2010. Moreover, the project own- ers were asked to prepare several reports in order to give information and news about the progress of their projects. Every 2 months the pro- jects owners prepared Pro- gress Report about their projects and upload these reports to MIS. Until now, the Progress Reports were prepared twice. In addition, February 2010 was the time to receive Interim Reports of the pro- jects. Interim Reports are the integral part of the contracts that they signed with World Bank. This Newsletter was pre- pared with the help of In- terim Reports of the pro- jects. Inside this issue: Mentor Coach 2 Youth Agenda Association 3 Accessible Web 4 Young Disabled 5 Independent Life Group 6 Ozgur Alaz Talip Tastemel 7 Sagala-Sun 8 DM Newsletter March 2010 Iss ue 2 What Has Happened Until Today... Gaziantep Social 9 Anatolian Health Volunteers 10 TOG 11 Union of Cham- bers of Trades- men and Arti- 12 OTOKOC 13 Thrace Agricul- tural Coopera- 14 AFSAD 15 Development of the Hearing 16 Group Voley 17 Antalya Com- modity Exchange 18 Contemporary Women and Youth Found. 19 Group Salt 20 Hilal Kavafolu Project Group 21
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Youth in Turkey: Shaping Our Future
20 projects were awarded on May 21, 2009 in Istanbul at the final stage of the Development Marketplace Competition, organized by the World Bank under the theme �Youth in Turkey: Shaping Our Future�.
After the award ceremony, a busy period was started both for the awarded pro-jects and the World Bank Ankara office.
The contract period was easy and smooth. Neces-sary official documents were asked from the pro-ject owners and the con-tracts of 20 projects were signed at the end of June
The first payments were done at the beginning of July and the projects of-ficially started to be im-plemented on July 2009.
Due to the contracts and the projects:
17 projects are for 12 months and will be fin-ished on July 2010.
2 projects are for 3 months; these projects ended in September.
1 project is for 9 months and this project will be finished at the end of March 2010
By the time, in order to support the project owners better and give then tech-nical assistance during their implementation proc-ess a monitoring and evaluation team was estab-lished in Ankara. In order to support the work of this team an online MIS-Management Information System was created.
MIS enabled the project owners to receive quick answer for their questions, requests, receive docu-ments to be used for the reporting, capacity building, etc, receive announcements from World Bank. Until today, 25 announcements were done, 20 documents were uploaded, 300 ques-tions were replied, 126 minor changes requests were replied through MIS.
Beside the online support tool, the monitoring ex-perts give support on the
field to the projects. The monitoring visits of the projects were started and until today 11 projects were visited on the field. The monitoring visits will continue in March 2010.
Moreover, the project own-ers were asked to prepare several reports in order to give information and news about the progress of their projects.
Every 2 months the pro-jects owners prepared Pro-gress Report about their projects and upload these reports to MIS. Until now, the Progress Reports were prepared twice.
In addition, February 2010 was the time to receive Interim Reports of the pro-jects. Interim Reports are the integral part of the contracts that they signed with World Bank.
This Newsletter was pre-pared with the help of In-terim Reports of the pro-jects.
Inside this issue:
Mentor Coach 2
Youth Agenda Association
3
Accessible Web 4
Young Disabled 5
Independent Life Group
6
Ozgur Alaz � Talip Tastemel
7
Sagala-Sun 8
DM Newsletter
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What Has Happened Until Today...
Gaziantep Social 9
Anatolian Health Volunteers
10
TOG 11
Union of Cham-bers of Trades-men and Arti-
12
OTOKOC 13
Thrace Agricul-tural Coopera-
14
AFSAD 15
Development of the Hearing
16
Group Voley 17
Antalya Com-modity Exchange
18
Contemporary Women and Youth Found.
19
Group Salt 20
Hilal Kavafoðlu Project Group
21
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Young Social Entrepreneur Leaders Academy
Project Number:
WBDM 983805
Name of the Beneficiary: Mentor Coach
City: Istanbul
Partners: Student Representatives Council of Bosporus University
The project aims at ensuring the raising of tomorrow�s social entrepreneur leaders by way of youth. In this direction, Young Social Entrepreneur Leaders Academy will be established under Bosporus University and will be managed by young people equipped with required competencies. The system will enable young people to lead first themselves and then each other and thus will serve as an engine for raising the social entrepreneur leaders of tomorrow. This system will increase Turkey�s future productivity, individual performance and efficiency on the path of development and by developing leader entrepreneur competencies, lay the foundations of social entrepre-neurship which is a very new concept in Turkey and produce solutions for youth problems.
Two introductory meeting are held on the campus on 15 and 21, October 2009 which have reached to 300 students in total. During the seminars, SOGLA vision, the reason why the project is created, SOGLA process and its ultimate goals have been communicated to the participants.
The first step of SOGLA application was the application form ,filled on the internet. During October, all the application forms a re evaluated by the project group. The interviews are held between October, 13 and 22 2009 at Bogazici University.
The kick-off day is held on 12th December, 2009 with 26 selected SOGLA first leaders. Home-
works and the reading list are given as the students had time until the training, 9th February 2010 to
stretch their vision and knowledge on coaching, leadership and social entrepreneurship.
�The Young Social Entrepreneur Leaders Academy� project is a system creation project: www.sogla.org
Partners: Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), Ankara Special Provincial Ad-ministration, E-Youth Association, Youth Participation and Intercultural Dialogue Association.
The project aims at ensuring the candidate interns placed to entities become permanent employees instead of indirect employment; provide Personal Development Training to young people whereby they will transform their theoretical knowledge about creativity, leadership, communication, stress and time management and team work into prac-tice; and thus create awareness about these basic concepts which are voiced frequently everywhere.
Through a network system special for young intern candidates, in order to reach internship opportu-nities, these candidates can describe their qualities on FACESTAJ and in this web-side it is pro-vided to; Express themselves in a dynamic and actual virtual environment through �Live Interview� to
institutions and employers in need of interns.
Reach young trainee candidates on Facestaj for employers and institutions in need of interns,
Establish a demand-supply mechanism controlled by communication network coordination team which tries to improve internship opportunities by coordinating communication between intern-ship candidates and employers.
With headlines like Youth News, Education & Scholarship Opportunities, NGO Bulletin, our aim is not limited to bring together employers and young candidates but at the same time the Project has the mission of keeping the young people informed about actual youth agenda.
Offer education opportunities by FACESTAJ Coordination Team within certain intervals to prepare young candidates to business world
A special software Network having these characteristics particular to internship candidates and employers in need of interns has been formed. www. facestaj.com
�FACESTAJ� software based web site: www.facestaj.com
The project aims at creating awareness among the web designers and content managers about accessibility so that they can offer alternatives to the visually impaired individuals. In addition, the perceptions of visu-ally impaired individuals about using web pages will be tested and identi-fied.
Website mock-up was created according to aims of project. After mock-up, logo of project was se-lected. After selection of logo, design of the website was finalized. We are still working on website to make it more usable and accessible.
Presentation about accessibility and usability were prepared and presented in METU to 25 program-mers in Ankara. This workshop was considered as a pilot workshop.
Pilot study of project was held on METU Web Pages. With participation of two visually impaired stu-dents, web pages became more accessible for visually impaired people. This pilot work will be docu-mented and published for distributing it to other Public Sector web site teams.
Www.erisilebilirweb.com
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
You Can Do It!
Project Number: WBDM 597133
Name of the Beneficiary: Young Disabled Sports Club
City: Adana
Partners: Youth Association of Adana and Adana Youth Assembly
The project aims at contributing to the solution of psychological problems of disabled individuals through sports activities and preparing the grounds for their integration with the society.
After the interviews with 64 young people, it was agreed on that 35 out of 64 young people are psy-chologically and physically ready to participate in performance sports.
However, in the application form it was foreseen to have 20 young people to participate but the real number was 35. Therefore it was decided to have meetings with Province of Adana and private com-panies to have support from them in order to cover the costs of 15 young people. Fortunately, the answers were positive and we were able to increase the number of participants in our project.
While the exercises are on going, we started and continue our seminars and panels in the schools. The first panel was held in November with the participation of 150 young people.
The number of young people increased from 20 to 35!
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
From Switchboard to Call Center
Project Number: WBDM 585079
Name of the Beneficiary: Independent Life Group
City: Ankara
Partners: GORBIR-Association of Culture and Unity of the Visual Impaired
The project aims at creating and developing a new area of employment for the visually impaired individuals in the public and private sectors; providing vocational training support for this area of employment; giving economic freedom to the visually impaired individuals through their participation in labor life; and thus contributing to their active participation process.
80 hours computer course between the dates October 24th 2009 and January 3rd 2010 in GÖRBÝR�s computer lab in Ankara were held for 15 young people. We taught how to use computer with JAWS (a screen reader program) as a blind person and how to personalize JAWS�s settings by using script-ing technology so as to operate computer programs properly with JAWS. In addition, we gave just kind of introductory lectures about Window Eyes (another screen reader program used in Turkey). 132 hours �English Classes� were given to all our students in one session between the dates October 12th 2009 and January 8th 2010 in GÖRBÝR�s meeting hall in Ankara. All the students participated in �Law Seminars� held in one session between the dates December 29th 2009 and January 17th 2010 . The seminars were about disability rights in working life in Turkey, job contracts and responsibilities of the partners, and laws regulating working life. We gave 123 hours diction and speaking classes to all students in one session between the dates Oc-tober 12th 2009 and January 4th 2010 in GÖRBÝR�s meeting hall in Ankara. Our classes were about Turkish grammar and phonetic structure, and effective communication skills.
Computer, English, Disabled Rights and Diction courses for 15 young people...
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Money Coaches: Innovative Financial Literacy Program for Youth
Project Number: WBDM 560588
Name of the Beneficiary: Ozgur Alaz � Talip Tastemel Project Group
City: Istanbul
Partners:
The project �Money Coaches� aims at helping the 13.8 million young people living in Turkey in taking correct decisions on financial issues, in using fi-nancial instruments like credit cards with awareness and thus starting sav-ing money. �Money Coaches� starts building up their own credit stocks by using their cards properly. Thus a reference system will have been created for the students who have not yet stepped into working life and do not have regular income to get credit cards from banks.
Moneycoaches web platform is our fundamental medium. This platform is not only consisting of con-tent, it also consists of advanced databases, tools and pointing scheme. We started with wire fram-ing level and information architecture of the website. Then we continued with designing and pro-gramming the website. Database development and developing point mechanism also achieved. We build beta version of our platform. It can be reached at parakocu.workattack.net During development process, our main problem is quality of execution. Due to advanced architecture and integration social tools, our time schedule delayed. Our platform lives with moneycoaches. We select our prior moneycoaches from universities. There are selected three moneycoaches, and we develop our content with them. We collected 1128 saving tips. We categorized and moderated them. We attended Visa Financial Literacy Conference. During the conference we give a speech about �Youth and Financial Literacy�. Attendees of conferences were all stakeholders about financial liter-acy from financial institutes to academic authorities.
MoneyCoaches.Com: Developing platform for financial literacy website
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Protection and Sustainable Use of Resources: Future
for Youth in Rural Areas
Project Number: WBDM 556745
Name of the Beneficiary: Sagala-Sun
City: Burdur
Partners: Sagalassos Archeological Research Project and Leuven Turkish Students Association
The project aims enabling the young people living in rural areas to discover and make sense of their local values and learn the options of �protection while using� through sustainable policies that will enrich cultural and social life. This process is intended to encourage young people to voluntary ser-vice and active citizenship and meet with the EU on the basis of examples and individual connections. The long-term objective of the project is to achieve rural development with the multi-faceted and polyphonic participa-tion of a responsible and conscious youth that is open and respectful to other cultures and sensitive about ecological balance.
June 28, July 26, August 4, 2009: Implementation of the first package of festivities and trips to Ancient city of Sagalassos. Three separate guided tours were organized to the ancient city of Saga-lassos for the local young people, as well as young mothers with their children from different neighborhoods of Aðlasun. The days started with a breakfast at the picnic area at the entrance to the site. A short history of the ancient city was told, but mainly links between life in this geography in antiquity and modern times, its similarities and differences with living in Aðlasun today were em-phasized. In total 69 people from Aðlasun visited the site with these guided tours.
September 24 � October 20, 2009: The old beetroot weighing centre, shortly known as KANTAR by the locals, is a small building made of stone masonry. Rough works were almost completed by the start of October. To complete the fine works, Sagalasun Team invited volunteers from the young people of Aðlasun.
October 13, 2009: As it was announced, first Sagalasun meeting was held in front of the Kantar building in open air. Sagalasun team, explained the aims of the project and the first targets as being the repair of the Kantar building and opening of the exhibition in the next coming days. After the speeches, first volunteers of the project, themselves spontaneously made an announcement to ask more volunteers to come forward also to participate in other activities of the Sagalasun Project.
October 17, 2009: The old Kantar building and the first archaeological photography exhibition were opened by the rector of the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur,
Www.sagalassos.be
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Handicraft of Youth: Zeugma Miniature Carpet
Production Workshop
Project Number: WBDM 471066
Name of the Beneficiary: Gaziantep Social Service Youth Project Team
City: Gaziantep
Partners: Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, Sahinbey Adult Training Center and Evening Arts School, Gaziantep Medical Hypnosis Association and Executive Board Members, Association of Active Participants
The project aims at establishing and operating a workshop to develop the skills and capacities of qualified but at-risk young people who have completed vocational education, in line with their fields of interest; and to ensure and develop social and economic partnerships towards their own future for creating the spirit of entrepreneurship among these young people.
By the time, the visit of Mr. Ulrich Zachau, World Bank Country Director, brought another dimension to the project. The interest of the press was really high and the timing was perfect in terms of, it was the period when the �Get to Know Each Other� dinner was organized for the young people, their families and the project team as well as the project partners and associate partners.
A website www.zeugmagenclikplatformu.com was established in order to support the visibility of the project and share know-know with the other organizations, working with the similar target group and on the similar field.
The �street league� was established with 4 teams and in order to raise the integration of the young people into the society and to organize free time activities for them, �football tournament� was ar-ranged.
The field works to Isparta, Kutahya and Manisa were organized. The idea of the field works was to establish a bridge between the young people of these cities, who also know how to weave and work in the workshops of these cities and the young people of the project. During the field works the young people also had the chance of learning different techniques of weaving carpet.
Name of the Beneficiary: Anatolian Health Volunteers
City: Istanbul
Partners: Anadolu Education and Social Assistance Foundation, Anadolu Health Center, Kars, Mardin, Mus, Agri and Van Provincial National Education Directorates
The projects aims at organizing various training and other activities with the involvement of specialists, towards the students of health vocational secondary schools which have been structured to provide direct labor force to the health sector with a view to increasing these students� per-ceptions about a broad-based vocational culture, lifelong learning and vi-sion, taking into consideration the inequalities observed in educating and socio-cultural opportunities. Thus the project contributes to the education of the students of nursing department of vocational schools and reducing the shortfall of qualified intermediary staff needed in the health sector.
The website was launched with the contribution of the IT firm (Anadolu Bilisim Hizmetleri), as a supporter of the project, in November. www.saglikkoprusu.org is now running properly. Finding the supporters for film production and printed materials design; designing the logo, poster and flyer; producing the introductory film was done. At the end an agreement with EWRE Production & Zebra Film was reached. We sent these posters to Anadolu Group�s companies and request them to publish these posters in order to increase project visibility. Conferences were held on 05 � 07 November 2009 Kars and Mus, 12 � 13 November 2009 Aðrý, 19 � 20 November 2009 Van, 12 � 14 December 2009 Mardin. Academic committee had presentations about various topics such as importance of undergraduate education on nursing, communication and empathy, the philosophy of nursing. Conferences were based on interaction with the students. In these cities we have reached out to 367 Nursing Vocational High Schools students (10th & 11th Class), 90 Health Secondary Schools Students, 40 teachers and 40 parents.
Nevidea Distance Learning Tool is started to be prepared by the volunteers, responsible of finding reading materials with the help of our supporter nurses from our partner Anadolu Health Center (ASM), converting them into power point show format. Once teaching and reading materials have been uploaded to the site, all interested students will be able to follow current issues regarding nursing and personal development.
Name of the Beneficiary: Community Volunteers Foundation
City: Istanbul
Partners: Istanbul Bilgi University Youth Studies Unit
The project �Think Purple!� aims at contribute to ensuring social gender equality in terms of the quality and quantity of participation in both local Community Volunteer organizations and national level structure of Commu-nity Volunteers as well as offering a model to various youth organizations through tools to be developed for this purpose.
Local Monitoring Training in was held between 12.11.2009 and 15.11.2009 with the participation of 27 young people. Selections Criteria for the applications were:
capacity of local team for management the project
actuality of local team for implementing the project
motivation of the people
geographical balance
gender dispersal
During the training generally motivation of the participants focused on a gender and concept of equality. For making more motivation about monitoring, advocacy activities and gender equality one more session was added.
Local Monitorings in Eskisehir, Kayseri, Ankara, Izmir, Canakkale, Kocaeli, Istanbul and Samsun were realized between 01.12.2009 and 31.12.2009 with the participation of 92 young people. During this period gender monitoring was done by the young people and 10 monitoring reports were prepared.
10 monitoring report on gender equality were prepared
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Hybrid Engine Technology Training
Project Number: WBDM 358504
Name of the Beneficiary: Union of Chambers of Tradesmen and Artisans Vocational Training Center Directorate and Anatolian Technical Secondary School
City: Manisa
Partners: The Society of Motor Manufacturers, Inci AKU A.S, Tirsan Karden A.S, Association of Technical Staff Chamber of Engine Repairmen
The project aims at increasing the knowledge and experience of the stu-dents about the methodologies and techniques, instructional materials and educational curricula used in the hybrid engine technology, which incorpo-rates both gasoline and electrical systems as a new alternative engine technology in the world; training them as individuals who constantly update and improve both their professional and personal skills in vocational and technical education and who can keep up with the changing technologies thus raising an intermediary labor force that can compete with their coun-terparts in the EU countries.
Between 15.06.2009 and 02.10.2009 market research was made for materials and equipment supplies by a commission of Motor Department teachers from our school all the materials are supplied. By the time 20 students have been selected and their progress and motivation in the project activi-ties will be constantly controlled by two teachers. We got into contact with TOYOTA �SA from Turkey and some companies abroad regarding docu-ments and materials required for theoretical trainings. Mercedes sent us some documents as a result of our attempts. We have been facing some problems to supply materials and information since our project is an innovational one. Students divided into two groups and start their theoretical trainings given by the trainers on the model prototype.
It is not easy to find all the necessary equipments in Turkey for Hybrid Engine...
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
My School is at Authorized Service Provider
Project Number: WBDM 326568
Name of the Beneficiary: OTOKOC
City: Izmir
Partners: Sehit Idari Atase Caglar Yucel Technical and Industrial Vocational Secondary Shool (former name; Izmir Motor Technical and Vocational Secondary School)
The project aims at contributing to the improvement of vocational educa-tion in Turkey through such partnerships with institutions (vocational sec-ondary schools in particular); ensuring the review of different school-industry practices at different places; and carrying into reality the school-industry partnership more efficiently and differently from these prac-tices. The current practice only involves the establishment of the labora-tories at schools and enabling a certain group of student-teachers to bene-fit from these laboratories. The project however applied training will be offered at the authorized service provider or plant.
In order to establish a �Training Center�, necessary permissions were taken and a suitable place was defined. After, technical and logistical equipments such as projector, curtain, computer, etc were bought and/or received as contribution in kind from different companies such as Bursa To-fas.
In order to create a support for the project group in terms of information and knowledge a re-search was done on internet about the curriculum of the vocational training schools of several European countries. This document was shared with the whole project team to be evaluated and analyzed.
The survey on vocation training was prepared to be implemented on the students, parents, teach-ers and sector employees.
In order to promote our project and publish all the materials used in the project a website was created on www.okulumyetkiliserviste.com
Name of the Beneficiary: Thrace Agricultural Cooperative
City: Tekirdag
Partners: Namik Kemal University Quality and Productivity Community and Seven to Seven Group
The project aims at enabling the young employed farmers in rural areas to start using the unused lands for agricultural purposes; proving vocational training seminars on ecological production on agricultural lands; conducting soil analyses for correct fertilizer use in agriculture; grow green peas which has been determined as the agricultural crop; organize village festi-vals for the marketing of plant in the region; establishing agricultural units to make green peas a brand and raise qualified agricultural workers to work in these units.
Project team together with young people has created on 30m2 �Agricultural Unit� with a library consisting of agricultural books at Balabanlý.
Chemical and organic farming brochures and photos were provided from TEMA, booklets and maga-zines about agriculture were supplied from Provincial Directorates of Agriculture, the use of non-formal education techniques was made the workshop activities. In this method, cooperative learn-ing was provided by young people, youngsters have performed a variety of sources by reaching out to new learning with this method.
The first agricultural seminar was organized at Balabanlý Village on 14 September 2009 with the participation of 68 farmers including 47 student and young participants from Çevrimkaya and Husunlu Village. The second seminar was hold at Arzulu Village on 14 September 2009. The partici-pants came mainly from Ýnanlý and Kýrkkepenekli Village. The following outputs were achieved:
Preparation of Agricultural Ecological Gardens has whacked up on October and lasted fourteen day via two month. 10 square meter area fenced as ecological gardens and gardens were taken to pre-pare for production with the help of anchors of tractors in addition green pea seeds were bought and prepared for sowing at ecological gardens.
Agriculture Education Seminar for Young Unemployed Farmer was realized with 24 young and 6 member of project team on 14 November 2009 at Çorlu and 18 December 2009 at FRESH EXPO - Istanbul Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Storage and Logistics Fair.
Green peas were planted in ecological gardens!
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Photography Training For the Hearing Impaired
Project Number: WBDM 265790
Name of the Beneficiary: Association of Photograph Artists of Ankara
City: Ankara
Partners: Ilkemiz Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation Center,
Ortadogu Education Association for the Hearing Impaired,
Turkish Sports Federation for the Hearing Impaired
The project aims at providing the hearing impaired young people with pho-tography training and ensure the development of these individuals in terms of physical independence, social competence, communication and vocational competence, including skills about daily life; as well as helping them to get the opportunity to work in photography sector.
18 young people, who are hearing impaired, participated in the workshops on �what�s photography�, what does it mean in Turkish?�, �what exactly does a photograph tell?� and �how does a camera work?� The workshops were held during the weekends for 20 weeks.
During the workshops there were two professional trainers and one translator for the young peo-ple. The innovative part of the workshops were defining one assistant for each young people. The assistants were young AFSAD members, who are experienced in photography and eager to be with the new comers in order to share their knowledge and experience on photography. The assistants participated in every workshop and in every activity with the young people.
In between the workshops photo safari activities organized in order to let the young people to ex-perience and try what they have learned in the classroom. Photo safaris were to Seymenler Park on October 18, Ulus and Ankara Citadel on October 25, Beypazari on November 1, II Photography Festival in Middle East Technical University on November 15, Kugulu Park on November 22, Kizilir-mak National Park on December 26 and Lake Eymir on February 6.
Beside the workshops and photo safari activities, the young people together with their assistants have watched several movies and discussed on the theme and screen shots. In addition, after a while the young people developed their own photos in the dark room by themselves.
The final exhibition of the photos taken by the young people will be held between 6 and 12 March 2010 in Ankara.
The Final Exhibition is between 6-12 March 2010 in Ankara Bar Exhibition Hall, Ankara...
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Preparation of Electronic Materials for Developing and Supporting the Higher Education Opportunities of the Hearing Impaired (E-Hear)
Project Number: WBDM 112614
Name of the Beneficiary: Association of Center for Development of the Hearing Impaired
City: Ankara
Partners: Gazi University, TC MONE Kemal Yurtbilir Vocational Secondary School for the Hearing Impaired
The project aims at developing the solutions that will ensure greater par-ticipation in higher education for the hearing impaired young individuals so that they can build more and stronger bridges with the society, that will enable them to receive better education at their universities and that will offer them better employment opportunities; as well as offering the tools including these solutions to the benefit of those who are af-fected from the problem and who are a party of the problem.
Meeting with hearing disabled students on August 22, 2001 in order to discuss �problems of the deaf and hard hearing people in the way of the universities and in the universities�. For this purpose, this meeting, particularly deaf and hard hearing peoples� signing were recorded by a hand cam. After this meeting we had information about the considerations of the deaf-hard hearing students on uni-versity education and the project; we had a frame about the content and borders of the question-naires that will be prepared; we recognized understanding ability of the topics included to the pro-ject by the deaf-hard hearing students; we observed use of sign language by the deaf and hard-hearing students on the related topics with the project; we managed to include about 20 deaf-hard-hearing youngsters to work together with us in this project.
After several surveys and meetings with the young people, the sign language translations were open to discussion of the group. It was seen that the hard hearing or deaf people with good writing skill in Turkish had no problem in the understanding and answering the questionnaires, while most of the high school students and the others with poor education background did not manage to do so. There-fore, it was decided to re-simplify the questionnaires regarding both the content and sign language level.
The VCD records of new sign language translations were introduced to young people...
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Secondary School Guidance Unit Supporting the Career Vision of Youth
Project Number: WBDM 099044
Name of the Beneficiary: Group Voley
City: Istanbul
Partners: Avrupa College, Notre Dame de Sion French Secondary School, Gazi Anatolian Secondary School, Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department of Ataturk Education Faculty of Marmara University and Robert College Alumni Association
The project aims at systematizing the structure whereby the Secondary School Grade I, students make their career choices in line with their own will and goals, by receiving the support of families and school system, in a creative process; converting it to an application protocol named �Voley�; and investigating its efficiency in an academic framework. In addition, the project aims at training experts in the school guidance units who will apply this method to the secondary school students as well as the inters in the final grade of secondary school psychological counseling and guidance de-partments.
After school counsellors and student interns learn by experience the 2,5 days vocational vision practice, they learned how to apply this instrument to high school juniors, organize the application calendar and there is going to be a group work about how to apply it in school system.
In-service Training and Supervision Meetings consist of monthly 3 hour sessions. School counsellors, guidance and school counselling graduate school seniors, and trainers attended to these meetings. The aim is to increase the efficiency and mastery of the trainees, reinforce their knowledge and experience and find solutions to possible problems they face during their own practice. First meeting was held before the 2,5 days vocational vision practice is applied to high school juniors. The Application of 2,5 Days Collage Practice to High School Juniors School counsellors and student interns applied this practice in the high school system they are working. The aim is to help conceive high school juniors their vocational vision by the help of collage practice (which is an art therapy method).
Students make their career choices in line with their own will and goals...
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From Campus to Work
Project Number: WBDM 058397
Name of the Beneficiary: Antalya Commodity Exchange
City: Antalya
Partners: Antalya City Council Youth Assembly, Antalya Exporters� Associations, Faculty of Agricul-ture of Akdeniz Municipality, Municipality of Kepez, Antalya Branch of the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers.
The project aims at ensuring a smooth school-to work transition for the grade 1, 2, 3 and 4 students at the Faculty of Agriculture of Akdeniz Uni-versity; improving their skills through an innovative internship and adjust-ment program and career counseling, thus enabling them to prepare them-selves to employment in line with the expectations of agricultural sector before graduation; and ensuring their participation in employment in a bet-ter and more compatible manner.
A survey was implemented among 250 members of Antalya Commodity Exchange in order to under-stand and highlight the specific needs of the agriculture sector in terms of employment and em-ployee.
After the survey the 1st Knowledge and Experience Sharing activity was held in Akdeniz University on October 21, 2009 with the participation of students from Faculty of Agriculture. During this fo-rum, representatives from different sectors gave information about their expectations from the newly graduated students as well as gave advices to the ones who will graduate very soon.
Innovative Internship System was created between October and December 2009. A selection com-mittee determined 30 students who will participate in the internship program. In order to reach to young people information desks were open in shopping centres, university campus and in the faculty and with the help of these desk, the applications of the young people were received.
30 young people will participate in the internship program
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Young Women Entrepreneurs
Project Number: WBDM 044651
Name of the Beneficiary: Contemporary Women and Youth Foundation
City: Ankara
Partners:
The project aims at supporting the participation of Turkish young women in the labor force; encouraging women for social participation, establishing a job counseling system for women; providing entrepreneurship training for women; offering financial literacy training for women and supporting the institutional framework that facilitates the participation of women in the labor force.
A survey was implemented in order to understand the needs of young people. For the implementation process, Life Long Learning Centers and Vocational Training Schools in Mamak and Altindag districts were used. 177 applications were received and 40 of them were selected.
After the selection process, the young women were invited to participate in:
Self Confidence Seminars
Computer Literacy Seminars
Financial Literacy Seminars
Under Self Confidence Seminars; 40 young women participated in workshops on;
Rights and responsibilities as a citizen
Decision Making Processes and How to Participate in Them
Women in Business Life
Communication and Conflict Resolution
The Importance of Economic Freedom
Do you know your rights and responsibilities as a citizen?
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
To Make a Living on Salt
Project Number: WBDM 353078
Name of the Beneficiary: Group Salt
City: Çankýrý
Partners: Çankýrý Provincial Youth and Sports Directorate
Using the subject of �Çankýrý Salt Cavern�, the project aims to train young people as �Çankýrý Salt Cavern Guides�, to develop their handicraft skills and to equip them with qualifications that they can design and produce handicrafts made of salt in the professional sense. Thus the project intend to offer new employment opportunities that will generate income for the young people of Çankýrý which is a province with limited financial capacity.
After the promotion of the project and the award received in Development Market Place, the open call was made around Çankýrý in order to inform the youth of Çankýrý about the project and the opportunity it will provide them.
The selection of the young people was made among 100 applications and 20 of them were defined to participate in the project.
The first training course was on �Salt Cavern Guidence�, for 40 hours in 8 weeks. 20 young people learned about; �Tourism and Guidence�, �The importance of Salt Caverns for Cankiri�, �Alternative Tourism�, �Public Relations and Communication�, �Cave Tourism in Turkey and in the World / Wieliczka Example of Poland�, �Salt and Health�. Beside the theoritical courses, 5 different field work were organized to the salt caves of Cankiri in order to enable the young people to practice what they have learned.
Meanwhile the training course on �Handicrafts made of Salt� started and lasted for 8 weeks. During the course the young men learned how to make a salt lamp and the young women learned how to make salt jewellery. The handicrafts made of salt were exhibited in the center with the help of the Municipality and Youth and Sport Unit.
A visit for 60 young people from different cities in 5 groups were arranged in order to raise the awareness on Cankiri and the young people who participated in the Salt Cavern Guidence training course took the responsibility of guiding the groups during their visits.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN REALIZED...
Young people know more about salt and handicrafts made of salt...
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Development Marketplace, Turkey 2009
Dance of Young Hearts
Project Number: WBDM 549679
Name of the Beneficiary: Hilal Kavafoðlu and Nermýn Çalkaner Project Group
City: Kayseri
Partners: Social Services and Child Protection Agency Ahmet Baldoktu Social Care and Rehabilitation Center, Kayseri World Dances Youth and Sports Club Association
The project aims at ensure that the target group completes its psycho-social development process in more healthy way and raises their level of awareness; making their social life more relevant and productive and thus minimize their exclusion in their oppressive and conservative environments; supporting their acquisition of self-confidence and helping them notice that they are not alone.
The first meeting with the young women was held on July, 04 2009 by a visit to the Rehabilitation Centre and then by a dinner. 14 young women were the target group of the project.
In order to understand the level of depression that the young women have, a special tests were im-plemented by the professionals. The same test was implemented at the end of the project once again, in order to understand the impact of the project on 14 young women.
Before the dance courses, the young women participated in the seminars on �Domestic Violence, Age of Marriage, Marriage and Divorce, Sexual Harassment, Freedom of Living, Freedom of Choice and Equality�. In addition to these seminars, sexual health seminars were given to the young women.
After the seminars, the young women were taught by the professional dancers how to dance. Selec-tion of the dances were done with a great variety such as tango, salsa and Texas line.
During the courses the young women were accompanied by the professionals and they learned more about the basic steps.
At the end, it was a show time for the young women to share their skills and abilities as well as their products on dance with their families. A closing night was organized with the participation of the families, the other young women and the trainers where 14 young women perform their excellent cerography.
