Syrian Women's Workshop for Self-Reliance

Every day, we meet dozens of women who gather around Support to Life, some for hospital applications, some for registering their kids to school, some to update their IDs, and to seek solutions to many other problems, but mainly to seek their rights. We touch the lives of women who live in harassment and rape, who are exposed to domestic as well as non-domestic violence, who are married early and by force, who are not sent to school, who are viewed with prejudice and hatred due to local women believing they will steal their husbands, who are unable to work and to be free, and who suffer from the disadvantages of being refugees as well as of their gender.

Now we will hear the story of one of those women, Halime.

Halime first came to Support to Life to get support to practice her profession. When she was in Syria, she was a tailor, where she worked hard and she bought her first sewing machine on loan. Then she slowly paid her debt month by month. In the meantime, she improved herself and began to make designs. When things got a little better, she took a few female friends of hers with her and expanded her business. So much so that she managed to buy a house, although she was unable to own it. Her husband registered the title deed of the house on himself, and soon after, the war broke out. When she came to Hatay as a refugee, she did not have any materials to practice her profession. Fortunately, she heard that we were running livelihoods support projects as Support to Life. We met her when she enrolled in the sewing and embroidery class. She not only participated in the vocational training course, but she also became our instructor's assistant thanks to her past experience. Upon completion of the course, she obtained her certificate and began to provide her children's care and all her livelihood by tailoring at home with the sewing machine donated by our association.

Now, you too can support our ‘Syrian Women's Workshop for Self-Reliance’ project, where we support dozens of women like Halime, and help extend our project through social media.

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• Support to Life

As Support to Life, we always explore all the possibilities and try to find new ways to support life. This time we developed a new creative and cooperative way to support life and women’s empowerment and lead the way for those who want to become supporters.

We created an alternative that transforms shopping experience into a chance to support a more fair and equal world with a shopping point that contributes to more than one Sustainable Development Goals by producing and consuming responsibly and inviting others to do so. We formed a social design market servicing to this fin.

We completed our works on brand creation and marketing and now we are proud to say that we are officially open to become, find and aid supporters. We created ‘Destekar’ - which means ‘supporter’ in Turkish - brand whose activities overlap with Support to Life serving the same goals, worrying about the same problems.

We created a series of collections and one of our first collections is inspired by Göbeklitepe. With the Göbeklitepe Home Textile Collection we tried to maintain Göbeklitepe’s inclusive spirit that shows us working, worshipping and creating together is one of the best ways to support life.

To produce responsibly we started from the design process. We gathered a team of designers who work with natural materials to imitate the nature of the world and who pursue what is precious in art and in daily life. In our designs, we departed from the Göbeklitepe’s guardian shapes and patterns. During the production process, we worked with a team consisting of 10 women who live in Sanlurfa feeling the spirit of Göbeklitepe. We enjoyed working and producing together while empowering women and girls by including them in all parts of the production in their unique ways. In this way, we created pillowcases and lace pillows to enjoy at home together in peace and table mats to eat together remembering inclusiveness and unity.

By doing so we opened a new path to support life and women’s empowerment and to become supporters by simply shopping from our brand. As Support to Life, we always explore all the possibilities and try to find new ways to support life. This time we developed a new creative and cooperative way to support life and women’s empowerment and lead the way for those who want to become supporters.

We created an alternative that transforms shopping experience into a chance to support a more fair and equal world with a shopping point that contributes to more than one Sustainable Development Goals by producing and consuming responsibly and inviting others to do so. We formed a social design market servicing to this fin.

We completed our works on brand creation and marketing and now we are proud to say that we are officially open to become, find and aid supporters. We created ‘Destekar’ - which means ‘supporter’ in Turkish - brand whose activities overlap with Support to Life serving the same goals, worrying about the same problems.

We created a series of collections and one of our first collections is inspired by Göbeklitepe. With the Göbeklitepe Home Textile Collection we tried to maintain Göbeklitepe’s inclusive spirit that shows us working, worshipping and creating together is one of the best ways to support life.

To produce responsibly we started from the design process. We gathered a team of designers who work with natural materials to imitate the nature of the world and who pursue what is precious in art and in daily life. In our designs, we departed from the Göbeklitepe’s guardian shapes and patterns. During the production process, we worked with a team consisting of 10 women who live in Sanlurfa feeling the spirit of Göbeklitepe. We enjoyed working and producing together while empowering women and girls by including them in all parts of the production in their unique ways. In this way, we created pillowcases and lace pillows to enjoy at home together in peace and table mats to eat together remembering inclusiveness and unity.

By doing so we opened a new path to support life and women’s empowerment and to become supporters by simply shopping from our brand.

With your donations 1 material for a knitten bag received. We need your support. 

Links:

• Hayata Destek Dernegi