February 2013
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21st Diyarbakir Youth Council Ended..
The day began with the dance of volunteers. After the dance, the presence of participants was checked for voting and then Board Member candidates introduced themselves once more before the voting. 8 out of 22 board member candidates would be selected as board member after the voting. Before the voting started, a video about TOG was watched. After an hour of voting, the result was announced....
''Burned Bazaar'' (Yanmış Pazar)
”Burned Bazaar” (Yanmış Pazar)
During the ”Burned Bazaar”, different youth clubs mutually shared the projects, events that they had done.
Youth Bank projects:
• Handicraft workshop for young women - During the project women learned new handicraft styles. After the workshop they had the idea to organize a fairy and exhibit their handicrafts.
• Young women...
"the work here seems to never stop, as there are...
The end of the 3rd day of the 21st TOG Youth Council is close, but the work here seems to never stop, as there are still lots of exciting things to do. To make TOG’s projects and activities clearer to the youngsters, the organization’s team decided to offer participants several diverse forums concentrated on different aspects of TOG’s work: TOG’s local projects, TOG’s training system,...
Who will be the new faces of TOG’s board in 2013?
There’s a certain degree of excitement and joyful impatience on the faces of young people who gathered at the Youth Council’s venture this mid-day. The event long awaited by everyone has finally started – the selection of the new TOG’s board members. It may seem that there’s nothing special in this procedure, but not when it comes to the board of TOG, as each young active volunteer of the...
This Saturday the 21st TOG Youth Council is reaching its culmination point: the meeting of present board members of TOG with the numerous volunteers of the organization and selection of the new members of the board who will be responsible for the most important decisions that will be taken at TOG during the new year period. The participants of the Council had a chance to listen to İbrahim...
"Each of them concentrated on various aspects of...
Each of them concentrated on various aspects of social rights, democracy, peace building, HIV & AIDS,
Since the day is close to its end, a little bit of tiredness is felt among the Youth Council’s participants. Therefore the time for the entertainment has come. Keeping in mind that all of the event’s activities should be not only fun, but truly useful, the organizers of the Youth Council...
Gender mainstreaming Panel
TOG organized a panel about Gender mainstreaming. The panel aimed to strengthen women, to inform about positive discrimination, trainings, projects, workshops. During the panel women participation problems within TOG and Turkey were discussed. The speakers were Başak Tuğsavul from Social relations department, TOG board member Tuğba Jabban, Ankara TOG Zeynep Meltem Torun, Izmir TOG Aycam...
"The rights of women are not violated and judicial...
Though the Saturday’s programme of TOG’s Youth Council is pretty tough in terms of schedule and amount of various activities, young people coming from all over the country are still ready to go on getting to know more, share their experiences and discuss problems Turkey’s society faces at present. Panel discussions that took place during the first part of the day finally gave the floor to...
''The biggest obstacle for peace is our thoughts,...
The 2nd day of the 21st TOG Youth Council started with a panel discussion on a topic that can’t leave anyone indifferent – social peace. 5 prominent representatives of various social initiatives, human rights workers: Deniz Rojda Solmaz, Hidayet Tuksal, İbrahim Betil, Osman Baydemir and Takuhi Tovmasyan Zaman came to Diyarbakır to talk about their vision of peace and answer participants’...
October 2012
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September 2012
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June 2012
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A workshop on images
Working at TOG as a European volunteer since February 2012, I get to meet many young people living in Istanbul and other cities in Turkey. Most of them have voluntary commitments at TOG or in other organisations. One of these is the YASOM conversation club, that provides free and open to all language sessions in English, Spanish, German, French and of course Turkish. I was helping a friend and...
May 2012
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Living Library, Kadiköy
On the 12th and 13th of May TOG organised the second edition this year of a very special event, the Living Library, or Yaşayan Kütüphane. New season, new venue: hosted at Kadiköy, the event set camp in a park on the banks of the Bosporus, under the refreshing shade of blooming trees.
We attended the Living Library on a Saturday, just on time for two last sessions before it closed, after making...
April 2012
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The second Sustainable Sunday Afternoon at the...
Last Sunday, a group of young people 7 to 14 years old, participated to the second Sustainable Sunday Afternoon at the Pink House, the TOG Youth Centre situated in Kavacik, Istanbul.
This second happening was organized and lead by the EVS volunteers and was divided in two main parts.
The first part was a Creative Laboratory, that had the purpose to show how it is possible to recycle materials in...
March 2012
4 posts
The TOG Democracy and Human Rights training for...
The Democracy and Human Rights training for trainers organised by TOG from the 19th to the 25th of March ended with time for participants to reflect on what they learnt and take action.
During the last three days, the workshops dealt with international and European institutions, crisis management, citizenship and activism. Most importantly, a whole day was dedicated to letting the participants...
The TOG Democracy and Human Rights training for...
The second and third days of the Democracy and Human Rights training for trainers organised by TOG from the 19th to the 25th of March provided tangible applications of the concepts defined previously.
A first activity addressed discrimination by putting participants in a train station environment, where passengers don’t all go on the same life journey. Some are blind, deaf, disabled or...
The TOG Democracy and Human Rights training for...
The Democracy and Human Rights training for trainers organised by TOG from the 19th to the 25th of March in western Istanbul gathers 24 young people from different parts of Turkey. This article depicts the activities held on arrival and day 1.
The group bonded quickly, a bumpy, two hour journey to the training venue in a chock-a-block full minibus on a sunny day definitely breaking the ice....
A Sustainable Sunday Afternoon in Pink House:...
Last Sunday, 11 young people aged between 7 and 14 years, participated to the first “Recycling and Sustainability Theatre Workshop” ever created in the Pink House, the TOG Youth Centre situated in Kavacik, Istanbul.
The workshop has been organized by the EVS volunteers and the theatre expert Hélène Courreau.
The aim of this workshop was to connect young people to the theatre world and, at the same...
February 2012
2 posts
19th TOG’s Yourth Council. EVS volunteers...
Between the 2th and the 5th of February has been held the 19th TOG’ Council in Gaziantep.
During the council, one evening has been dedicated to 10 different workshops that covered various topics. The workshops were all in turkish and have been organized by turkish volunteers.
Our five TOG EVS volunteers: Jana Eyssel from Germany and Lenka Sreinova from Czech Republic (TOG EVS volunteers that are...
Pink House Music Attack!
About the Pink House
The Pink House Youth Center in Kavacik, Istanbul, provides social and educational services for local youngsters, most of whom lack socio-economic opportunities to fully take part in society.
The centre aims to make young people aware of their responsibilities, of the ways they can enact their potential and develop their communities.
It’s a place where youngsters receive...
December 2011
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Democracy Wheel: a great start to break the glass...
“ Can you see it? It’s a glass border and we can look each other through it. We are so close and only a small effort would be enough for breaking this barrier”.
The Democracy Wheel project has been realized in between 17-20 November 2011. “The Future is Yours” NGO from Armenia has carried out this project in partnership with Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı (Community Volunteers Foundation) of Turkey-...
November 2011
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IZMIR 15th-18th of September 2011: TOG's YOUTH...
Youth Council is happening twice a year and it is one of the most important events of TOG to present and discuss TOG’s principles and to connect all the people involved in TOG as workers or volunteers.
The importance of this Council is directly related with the necessity to increase the communication between TOG’S departments and the 96 University clubs directly involved in projects . Through...
September 2011
3 posts
Andreea-Loredana: Best EVS project prize nominated
Europe views youth as the future of the community. The European Commission has arranged some activities to support this point. For example, the European Youth Week was celebrated in Antewerp, Belgium, because it is the European Youth Capital in 2011. The focus was on the quality of higher education, the promotion of learning mobility, and the development of employability and entrepreneurship...
New landscapes for TOG Cyprus
With TOG poised to open new groups abroad, TOG Cyprus is one of them.
There is a club at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) where they are organizing activities with young people.
“Theatre workshops, a program to help people with cancer, global warming activities, working with old people and children…these are our main projects here”, said Hatice Ozcan, the coordinator from TOG on the...
‘I live in a poor city with difficult conditions...
Name: Havva Cetingok
Age (now): 26 Where are you from in Turkey? Sanliurfa Which was your hosting country and city? LONDON/ENGLAND A seminar at the Yuzuncu Yil University (Van) about EVS was the starting point for Havva. It was there that she and a friend were introduced to this program. “The program sounded great because we live in a poor city with difficult conditions and it was absolutely...
June 2011
30 posts
“TRANSFORM YOUTH ENERGY INTO SOCIAL BENEFITS”
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YOUTH AND SOCIAL RIGHTS TRAINING OF TRAINER
Creating Awareness Among Young People
“Every day young people run up against problems and yet they do not always have the knowledge necessary to recognize the problems or find solutions,” said Alper Senturk, the coordinator of Youth and Social Rights Training of Trainers.
For six and a half days, 23 young people from around Turkey took part in this training, the aim of which was to create...
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Health to Youth Project Training of Trainers in...
Providing information on health issue and creating awareness on alternative approach of health issue among youth people. It’s the aim of Health for Youth Project about health literacy.
16 young people, between 18 to 22 years old, have the chance to participate to the Health for Youth: Health Literacy Project Training for trainer. The important part of the project is providing update information...
5 Key Training System in Turkey
Needs, problems and requests of young responsible leaders of local TOG youth organizations present in different regions of Turkey have been discussed and evaluated in Key Training Meeting which was held in Istanbul from 15 to 17 October 2010. It is a good time to make a general picture on the occasion of the opening of the year that so many new projects are about to begin.
The key training...
