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TOG Community Volunteers Foundation
TOG Community Volunteers Foundation
TOG Community Volunteers Foundation
Toplum Gnllleri
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Toplum Gnllleri Vakf: Community Volunteers Foundation
Toplum Gnllleri Vakf [TOG] is a foundation that contributes to the personal development of young people throughout Turkey by enabling them to develop and participate in social responsibility projects as volunteers.
Turkeys Need:
The report Studies on Youth Policies in the Mediterranean Partner Countries notes that Turkeys government has rightly insisted, youth [are] the future of the country. However, the report adds, no measures or targets to achieve this end have been taken. This is a clear gap in the governmental institutional structure. Through projects and trainings that empower youth, TOG is part of the non-governmental framework filling in the gaps in the governments youth policy. TOGs services are essential to the youth of Turkey. The government entity that provides youth services budgeted roughly 50 cents (in USD) per young person per year for 2008, a number that is woefully inadequate. Similarly, the governments education budget is very small in comparison to that of other countries and is allocated unevenly across regions. Furthermore, Being Different in Turkey notes that the educational system is marked by a lack of creative stimulus, freedom, and inquiry in the formal educational system. TOG creates opportunities for youth to empower themselves without the need for government action. +
Trains the trainers who implement peerto-peer trainings on subjects such as volunteerism, project management, human rights, social rights, reproductive health, health literacy, and organizational management
Offers face-to-face support to university student clubs according to their local needs
Provides scholarship and internship opportunities to young people Creates learning environments that increase youth mobility, which in turn supports learning from other young people and youth organizations
Supports young peoples ideas on social problems specific to their projects and helps them find financing for these projects
Investigates and contacts stakeholders to increase awareness of the needs of university students in the public sphere
learn by experience, and so they can contribute to the continuity of a democratic society. +
23,880
volunteers
94
235,349
1,103,386
volunteer hours
6,980,905
budget, in Turkish Lira
794
10
youth centers
Projects:
Young people explain a few of TOGs programs
Health to Youth
This health literacy program provides information on solutions to health issues that young people face. By preparing young people to become peer trainers, the program succeeds in spreading important health information to young people. Its [important] need to know the risks of sexually transmitted infections and reproductive health vulnerabilities, said Duygu Gner, the project coordinator. +
for us and for young people who methods. The students come
Duzen, N. E. (2011). Left alone and left behind: Impediments prohibiting Turkish university youth to become political beings. Paper presented in 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), July 9-12, Istanbul, Turkey.
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To Donate:
Please go to our website:
www.tog.org.tr
Or please use:
Garanti Bank Baglarbasi Branch ( 422) USD: 9089635 (IBAN:TR 76 0006 2000 4220 0009 0896 35) EUR: 9089634 (IBAN:TR 06 0006 2000 4220 0009 0896 34)
Address:
Hobyar Mh. Rahvanclar Sk. No:5 1.Vakf Han Kat.1 34112 Eminn/stanbul, Turkey
Tel:
Fax: E-mail:
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