The project name: “Mom, Hold My Hand” Before It’s Too Late “ Project Coordinator: Hazar Education, Culture and Solidarity Foundation Supporting Institutions: Üsküdar Municipality, Green Crescent Foundation Project Duration: 8 months (October 2014 – May 2015) Project venues: Primary, secondary and high schools of Uskudar district Purpose: We want to help parents understand a health society […]
Wo/men for Women is a branch project under “Struggle Against Domestic Violence Project” conducted by Ministry of Family and Social Policies. According to 2013 data of World Health Organization, %35 of women is exposed to physical or sexual violence in their lives. Again according to the same report, %38 of women fallen victim to murder […]
20 October 2007 The headscarf ban in Turkey has been a widely discussed topic for the past 40 years. Hazar Education Culture and Solidarity Foundation conducted the most comprehensive research on the headscarf ban in Turkey. Ankara Social Research Centre (ANAR) conducted questionnaire on behalf of Hazar Foundation. The target group is between 18-50 year […]
Hazar Foundation’s Touch Life Project is an awareness project that aims to work with the youth, also known as the Y Generation. Our foundation wants to create awareness in our youth with this project and help them take responsibility for their history, culture and the society overall. The students of Imam Hatip high schools of […]
The Southeast of Turkey has been facing terrorism for a long time and this has impacted on our country and its people negatively. The conflict not only blocks the services available in the southeast part of Turkey but also hurt Turkish economy. It widened and created a division amongst people and there was enmity, blood […]
Hazar Education Culture and Solidarity Foundation has been organizing events and participating in activities since its foundation. For this reason, Hazar has been in touch with many local and international activists, journalists, academics, and NGO representatives. This helped Hazar engage in contemporary issues of Turkey and the World and share its perspective. Hazar archived its […]
To a life with no boundaries… “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous” Confucius A group of women founded Hazar to increase knowledge in the community in 1993. Because we as a society had issues to discuss. We had questions regarding our history, culture, religion and identity. We knew knowledge […]
In the workshop we are planning to give way to the problems of Muslim women living in European countries. We want to learn from their experiences; we want to learn how they solve their problems and in which level they benefit from feminist approaches? Did they derive benefit from feminist theory and/or feminist practices? Did […]
Request to Diyanet for the increase in the numbers of female high rank officials 22 October 2010 Hazar foundation delivered a petition to Diyanet Religious Affairs Authority to remove “invisible walls” in front of women’s path to leadership and administration and management. This petition was delivered to the Minister of Religious Affairs, the President of […]
About us Our story Hazar Education, Culture and Solidarity Foundation was founded a group of women led by Ayla Kerimoğlu in November, 1993. Hazar Education, Culture and Solidarity Foundation had been operational as the Hazar Group until 3, January, 2006. The foundation’s major mission is to enable education for women and through education help create […]
Purpose Of Organization
To determine the current situations and problems of women and youth and develop projects to seek solutions by improving their legal, social, political and financial entity.
To strive for personal development of women and youth; make them more sophisticated in terms of training and education through moral and material support.
To establish dialogue, communication, cooperation and collaboration between individuals and groups as well.
For Not To Act On Impulse…
Hazar Education Culture and Solidarity Association organized varieties of events and participated in many other significant movements and activities. By this means, it had the chance to get to know a large number of activists, journalists, academicians, representatives of civil society organizations. Thus, it had the privilege to discuss, find the different point of views […]