LET'S EMPOWER GIRLS BY SUPPORTING THEIR EDUCATION

Dear donor,

It is a long and difficult process to choose the girls eligible to be included in our scholarship programs. Their declaration of family income, number of siblings, marital status of parents are all checked in addition to school records and the students are interviewed one by one to determine their motivation to continue their education.

No matter how much we want, we cannot give scholarships to every applicant and each year the number of applicants is always much more than our scholarship program budget. This year the selection process was finalized recently and we are proud to announce that we have 2000 new girls in addition to the 8426 girls already benefiting from the program. 10,426 girls in total will be receiving scholarships for the 2021-2022 school year.

A new decision taken this year is to deposit the scholarships in monthly installments to the students’ bank accounts instead of depositing beginning of each term in two installments. This will be an extra burden on the accounting department but guarantees that the girls’ needs will be covered for ten months.

For this school year we had planned to have 1700 new students but with your valuable contributions, we can now support 2000 new girls.

Thank you!

Links:

• Highschool scholarships
• 2019-2021 Activity report

Dear friend,                        

We will soon be starting to accept scholarship applications from high school students of disadvantaged families for the new shool year. This year we hope to give scholarships to 1,700 new students. Together with our branches, the total of our high school scholarship recipients will be about 9,000 for the 2021-2022 school year.

We recently changed our scholarship policy to also include secondary school students starting at 5th grade in our Project. The 12 years of the Turkish  education system at the moment is divided as 4+4+4  and we used to give scholarships for the last 4 years to keep girls in highschool and to enable them to continue on to university. However with the quality of education regularly going down in public schools, we decided to accept students after the first 4 years. This way we hope to increase their academic success and help their personal development with extra curricular seminars and trainings we hope to provide.

We also plan to give scholarships to students from families who suffered natural disasters, such as forest wildfires and floods this summer. Through our local branches, we are already determining these families in need.

As we increase our goals, we look forward to your donations as always..

Kind regards,