TEPEBASI ILCESI SOSYAL YARDIMLASMA VE DAYANISMA VAKFI / Türkiye

Background and experience

Tepebaşı Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation has been established in January 2009 and it is one of the 1000 SAS Foundations from all over Türkiye. Foundations are also the greatest associates of the governments which help to generate a linear income in the society, maintain the social equilibrium, create social solidarity, steady the social peace, prevent class conflicts and maintain socio-economic stabilization. Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations have been established for:

  • Assisting people in need,
  • Strengthening social solidarity,
  • Maintaining social peace Aims & Objectives

The general aim of our organization is to encourage social assistance and solidarity with leading projects in order to balance the inequality in the distribution of income, support the disadvantaged, strengthen the social solidarity, protect the peace, and lay a bridge between the government and the people in need without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, disability, marital or veteran.

Our foundation holds more than 17 thousand households and we support them with funds, food, fuel, shelter, clothing, health, education, insurance, and old & handicapped funds. We have over 800 refugees who we support with funds, food, fuel, shelter, clothing, health, language support, education, and training to help them integrate into society and to adapt to cultural differences.

Our main aims and activities are informing and raising awareness of the European Union and its educational programs; promoting self-fulfillment and personal development of young people through educational programs of the European Union and developing non-formal education, intercultural dialogue, international cooperation, and active civil society.

SYDV has been promoting opportunities for mobility and inter-cultural learning for youngsters from Eskişehir and its region. The association works with local NGOs and institutions in order to involve local organizations and local communities in international projects, This network helps us to involve local participants, when possible with fewer opportunities.

Target Groups&Principles

TSYDV is very active

  • to promote youth and youth learning mobility and participation with particular regard to learners with fewer opportunities;
  • to promote and to support volunteering at local, national, European, and international levels as a tool to achieve a more inclusive and just society;
  • to initiate and take part in activities, conferences, training, round tables, in developmental and human right issues;
  • to foster training, cooperation, and partnership between non-profit organizations and social workers;
  • to provide assistance in the building civil society through involving youth in participation in public life;
  • to foster active citizenship, social and democratic engagement, overall of youth and disadvantaged people;
  • to promote and elaborate the European and intercultural dimensions in fighting racism and xenophobia.

Today, Tepebaşı SAS Foundation provides services to approximately 50 thousand citizens in need. It continues its activities in a 7-floor service building located in the city center, and in addition, it has 3 more buildings established on a total of 1000 m2 closed and 8000 m2 open area. It has a total of 43 personnel and 11 service vehicles. With the donations it receives, it manages a resource of approximately 1 million Euros per year, and produces aid activities and social projects for citizens in need. As an institution that has been serving hundreds of people a day since 2009, including international experiences, we have highly experienced and problem-solving employees.