Lend a Hand and Let's Grow Together

Dear donor,

This is the 10th year of our mentorship project and we have come a long way.We had started the pilot project with only 5 CYDD branches 10 years ago.We now have 60 of our branches taking part with well-organized project teams and 700 new students benefiting in a single year.

Until recently the mentor-menti pairings were all done by the CYDD headquarters project team. This year however, this responsibility was delegated to the project teams in the branches and all interviews and pairings were done locally under the supervision and coordination of the headquarters team. This is a great step in the capacity building of the project and reaching out to all branches where there are university scholarship students is now a realistic dream.

 A total of 15 mentor and menti trainings were done online in October totalling to 78 hours with a participation of 1077 mentor and menti candidates and 25 CYDD volunteer trainers. Some branches started face-to-face mentor and menti trainings but the majority of meetings are still done on-line.

Starting in January various educational seminars will be available to menti students and supervision meetings will be held with mentors.

Thank you for being with us all these years..

Gratefully yours,

Links:

• mentorship project

Dear donor,

We are proud to announce that this year will be the 10th year of our Project!

Our Project is now well known among CYDD branches and university scholarship students and this year 55 branches will be participating with 800 students. So far we have reached some 2000 students and the Project capacity is now increasing geometrically.

During the summer months, our Project team held meetings with various corporations to provide mentors and resource support to the Project. Protocols were made with Henkel, Unifree, Apsiyon Software and Impact 2030 Initiative (among whose founding partners there are many forward-thinking companies such as IBM, Google, UPS, Pfizer and many others).. Collaborations were also made with various organizations to provide training to mentees during our 10th year. Seminars will thus be organized with Akbank Academy, YetGen MEF University and General Electric during the new school year.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our donors who believed in our Project from the start and keep supporting our students..

Kind regards,

Links:

• Project website (in turkish)