Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV), established in 1995, is one of Turkey’s most successful NGOs, known for its creativity, integrity, and vision in supporting public education. To this day, TEGV reached over 1,000,000 children and young people, ages 7 to 16, engages more than 25,000 volunteers, and is supported by more than 350,000 individual and institutional donors. Its mission is to provide and develop after-school, educational and training programs that encourage children to become rational, self-confident, creative, respectful and tolerant individuals.
TEGV emphasizes interactive learning and individual intellectual and emotional development, making use of the latest technology and advanced concepts for learning. Programs capitalize on the active involvement of parents, neighbors, and community leaders in strengthening local civil society.
Illustrative Programs
The power of peer-to-peer education
With the help of the IYF/Nokia Make A Connection initiative, this program aims to strengthen academic and life skills and promote active participation among 43,320 children and adolescents through a series of arts-related workshops.
Education parks and learning centres
TEGV runs more than 86 educational facilities, providing children and their parents with an active, easily accessible learning environment, and offering programs ranging from formal literacy training to entrepreneurship.
“I am a person, an individual, a citizen”
The program introduces children to the universal concepts of human rights, freedom, and citizenship, and encourages them to develop their own projects.
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