New beds and bunks were provided to Kisarawe Msimbu Secondary School Girls Dormitory with the support of Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA).
The fact that there are insufficient numbers of schools in the countryside throughout Tanzania and them being far away from the cities makes accessing education difficult for students.
75% of the students living in different areas of the country have to walk long distances or use a bicycle to go to school.
And this situation causes students to encounter social gender violence risks on the road to school.
There are dormitories for students, especially for females, in schools to overcome this. Kisarawe Msimbu Secondary School is one of them. The school provides dormitory opportunities for 80 female students and meets their shelter needs.
With the request of the Governor of Kisarawe, Fatma Nyangasa, to TİKA to improve the poor conditions of the dormitories and the students’ harsh living conditions, 50 bunks and 100 beds were provided to the dormitories.
Providing better shelter opportunities and a safe educational environment are aimed with this support.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) completed its landscaping and football field building activities in Belh Police Department district located in the city of Mazar-ı Sharif, Belh, Afghanistan.
Türkiye’s Consul General in Mazar-i Sharif, Semih Lütfü Turgut; Belh Police Chief, Mevlevi Abdul Zahir Mudassar; The Coordination Chief of Belh Police Department, Mevlevi Mohammed Ibrahim Sacid; TİKA’s Coordinator in Mazar-i Sharif, Mikail Taşdemir and numerous guests attended the opening ceremony of the project.
Belh Police Chief Mudassar, in his Turkish speech, thanked Türkiye and TİKA for their support. Also, stated that the work needed to increase the sports activities in the police department will start.
Giving information about the activities of TİKA in Afghanistan since 2005, TİKA’s Coordinator in Mazar-i Sharif, Taşdemir, stated that the 3200 square meter football field sodded, walking area built, and there are arrangements such as the arbour, bank and garbage containers as a part of the project.
Within the scope of the project carried out in the Gaza Strip, which is under the Israeli blockade, a solar energy system was built in the Palestinian Bar Association headquarters in Gaza by Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA).
Along with the socioeconomic problems continuing for years in Gaza, which is under Israeli blockade, having a power outage more than half of the day affects life negatively.
Having nearly 2,500 members and providing vocational training for hundreds of junior counsels, the Bar Association in Gaza is also affected negatively by the power outages.
With this system in Gaza, where approximately 330 days are sunny, the negative effect of the power outage on the Palestinian Bar Association is prevented and there has been a cut back on the power cost.
Deputy Head of the Palestinian Bar Association, Safi Mahmood Al-Dahdoh, stated that TİKA is always with the Palestinian people, and they carried out many projects in needed fields.
Dahdoh thanked Türkiye, the Turkish people and TİKA for the project, which solved the power outage lasting for approximately 16 hours a day.
First aid training is organized for the educators in the university, school and training centers in Herāt by Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA).
First aid training was provided for 200 women and 200 men in total of 400 educators, with the one-month training within the scope of the project organized in cooperation with TİKA and Support and Development of Victim Afghans Association.
Certificates and first aid kits were presented to the trainees at the ceremony held at the end of the training.
In his speech, TİKA’s Coordinator in Herāt, Arafat Deniz, mentioned the importance of the first aid and stated that they will continue to prioritise development programs on education and health.
Attendees also thanked TİKA for the project.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided 32 musical instruments to the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela.
Speaking at the delivery ceremony of musical instruments, Aydan Karamanoğlu, Türkiye’s Ambassador to Caracas, stated that they would like to implement a project similar to El Sistema Project, which provides free music training for over 1 million children and adolescents, in Türkiye.
About El Sistema
El Sistema, inspired and implemented in more than 70 countries in the world, uses music as a means of ensuring social and individual transformation. El Sistema is distinguished by its collective education method.
Giving concerts in Türkiye in 2022, El Sistema received widespread acclaim.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) opened a computer class for the young offenders in Dushanbe Juvenile Detention Center in Tajikistan to be reintegrated into society and to have an occupation after release by receiving vocational training in fields such as graphic design, accounting, and computer programming.
As a part of TİKA’s Vocational Training and Employment Program (MESİP), vocational training in the fields of computer programming, graphic design, and accounting started in the class established for 70 young offenders in the juvenile detention center in Dushanbe to adapt to social life and to have an occupation after release.
In the first phase of the two-phased project, the educational infrastructure and capacity of the detention center was strengthened by providing computers and all other equipment necessary for the training. In the second phase, vocational training in three-month courses was provided at the modern education center established for children in cooperation with TİKA, İlmhona and Alif Academy associations.
Within the scope of the project, 20 students who successfully completed the computer programming training were awarded certificates.
Farmers engaged in beekeeping in the zone of Operation Euphrates Shield in Northern Syria were supported and provided with Central Anatolian bees with support from the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA).
TİKA continues to develop projects aiming to increase the production capacity in areas, where security is ensured, in the zone of Operation Euphrates Shield in Northern Syria.
In cooperation with TİKA, the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry of Kilis, and the Local Council of Çobanbey, works designed for the increase of food security, which is one of the critical components of rural development, and of the income of farmers without land are being carried out.
As a part of the conducted efforts, farmers engaged in beekeeping were supported and provided with Central Anatolian bees, which are one of the most resilient bee breeds known especially for their ability to adapt to changing climate conditions and to be efficient in challenging conditions.
The project aims to contribute to an increase in local production and the expansion of the honey market in the region by providing economic opportunities to the farmers in the region.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided strawberry seedling and equipment support to 20 families to improve strawberry cultivation in Čelić Municipality, located northeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A total of 20 thousand square meters of high tunnels and strawberry seedlings were provided for the installation of a thousand-square-meter strawberry greenhouses for each one of a total of 20 families in the first phase of the project, launched to enhance the strawberry production capacity and the competitiveness by TİKA in cooperation with Čelić Municipality and the Faculty of Agriculture and Food of the University of Sarajevo. With the tunnels to be installed, it is aimed to increase productivity in strawberry production by reducing the negative impact of weather conditions.
Čelić Municipality, the leading producer of strawberries in Europe in terms of the ratio of strawberry cultivation to total population, is known for regional strawberry cultivation with its “Strawberry Days” events organized since 1980.
It is planned to increase the technical capacity of producers and to encourage an export-oriented production model owing to the consultation services to be provided to the producers by the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Sarajevo, one of the project partners.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) renovated the playground of Gábor Sztehlo Integrated Social Affairs and Child Protection Institute, operating in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
As a part of the project, the equipment and toys to be used in the playground within the children’s home, where care-intensive babies and young children are staying, were provided by TİKA.
Children will be socially active in the open air thanks to the playground in the garden of the children’s home which serves 24 children between the ages of 0 and 3. Authorities from Gábor Sztehlo Integrated Social Affairs and Child Protection Institute thanked Türkiye and TİKA for the project held.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided medical equipment to the Maternity Department of the Wahab Toyuba Hospital in Noakhali, People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
The delivery ceremony was held in the Wahab Toyuba Hospital, which serves approximately 100 patients a day. Member of parliament from Noakhali, H.M. Ibrahim; authorities of TİKA Dakka Program Coordination Office and hospital managers attended to the ceremony where an ultrasound machine, ECG device, biochemistry analysis machine, hospital beds and various emergency medical supplies were delivered.
The hospital, established in 2015 and 4 hours away from the capital city Dakka, provides health care to poor people living in the Noakhali region.
Emphasizing that TİKA’s support to the hospitals is essential for the Bangladesh people, in his speech, Member of Parliament, İbrahim stated that the hospital’s service capacity increased with the medical equipment, and there are lesser transfers of patients to the hospitals in the capital city Dakka.
Even though Bangladesh leapt forward significantly, the sector still suffers a setback. Having the title of the country with the highest population density in the world with its population of nearly 170 million, Bangladesh is the country with the highest infant mortality rate according to the United Nations data. Underbudget healthcare and lack of a number of qualified healthcare workers restrain Bangladesh people from considerably benefitting from healthcare services.
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) provided equipment to the beekeepers in Shkodër, Albania.
TİKA provided equipment to the beekeepers in two municipalities with the highest unemployed rate in Albania.
10 for each, PVC beehive base with pollen trap were given to 69 members of the Pukjane Beekeepers Association in Puke, Shkodër and the Beekeepers Association in Vau i Dejes, which are affiliated with the Albanian Beekeepers Association.
The collection and processing of bee pollen, along with the production of products such as honey, propolis and royal jelly, is aimed with the support given to beekeepers.
Furthermore, this support will help beekeepers with fighting the varroa disease, which is common in Albania.
Beekeepers in the area along with Türkiye’s Ambassador to Tirana, Tayyar Kağan Atay; TİKA’s Head of Departments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Muhammed Atay and TİKA’s Tirana Coordinator, Emine Gizem Başkan attended the delivery ceremony.
By stating in his speech that Turkish people will always be by Albania, Ambassador Atay said:
“We are showing an example of this today. We are always together through thick and thin. Hopefully, our good days will be more than the bad days. The Turkish people pointed out that they are by their Albanian brothers' side on this wise.”
TİKA’s Head of Departments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Ünal, mentioned that they give particular attention to the development of agriculture and beekeeping in the Balkans.
Stating that they are putting various projects into practice on increasing the production efficiency and diversity of the families living in the countryside and doing agriculture, Ünal said: “It is aimed with our project to prevent the downfall of the production because of the climate change and increasing the income of the families by increasing the product range.”
With the project carried out by Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) in Pakistan, Turkish cuisine was taught to Pakistani culinary students.
Two-week Turkish Cuisine Training Program, carried out by TİKA and Pakistan Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (PITHM), had come to an end with the certification ceremony attended by Türkiye’s Consul General to Karachi, Cemal Sangu; Provincial Minister of Sindh for Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Syed Serdar Ali Shah and TİKA’s Coordinator in Karachi, Halil İbrahim Başaran.
Pakistani cooks learned how to prepare 10 different menus and 40 different dishes from Turkish cooks in the training program where Turkish cuisine is being introduced.
Turkish delights were transmitted to Pakistan
Mentioning that he had the chance to taste many Turkish dishes during his visit last year, Minister of Sindh for Culture, Ali Shah, stated that he is greatly pleased with the delivery of these delights to Pakistan with this training project of TİKA carried out in PITHM where important cooks being trained.
Expressing that TİKA is active in almost all countries in the world, Consul General to Karachi, Sangu, stated that the fact TİKA is active with two offices shows the value given to Pakistan.
Reminding the audience that cuisines can transmit culture, TİKA’s Coordinator in Karachi, Başaran, specified that they are aiming to increase the cultural transmission between the two countries.
After the speeches, the certificates were given to 50 students who attended the training program.
After the certification ceremony, the dishes from the Turkish cuisine prepared by the Pakistani cooks were served to the guests inspecting the kitchen supported with equipment by TİKA.
With the project, PITHM culinary students will be the voluntary ambassadors of the Turkish cuisine culture with the Turkish cuisine delights they will serve to the institutions and organizations they work at.
