{"id":15894,"date":"2019-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/humanitarne-dobrovolnictvo-istanbul\/"},"modified":"2021-04-11T22:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T22:11:17","slug":"humanitarne-dobrovolnictvo-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/humanitarne-dobrovolnictvo-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for humanitarian volunteering in Istanbul, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our colleague has recently returned from a \u201epreparatory visit\u201c from Istanbul, Turkey. Together with partners ADICE and MONDO from the project HVA<\/a> (Humanitarian Volunteers in Action) verified in an NGO <\/span>Small Projects Istanbul (SPI) <\/span><\/span>the conditions for hosting the first humanitarian volunteers (what will be their specific tasks, working environment, residence permit, etc.). They will travel there after the mandatory pre-departure training in July.<\/span><\/div>\n
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SPI Organisation<\/a> was established to help the social and economic integration of Syrian refugee men and women in Istanbul. P<\/span>It is mainly young people, and a large part of the organisation's activities are carried out thanks to hundreds of local volunteers. Soon, the organisation will also add foreign reinforcements - also from Slovakia - thanks to the EU Aid volunteers programme. SPI runs a community centre that provides dignified integration and a space for livelihoods for mostly Syrian displaced families trying to rebuild their lives in Turkey.<\/div>\n
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SPI is also in charge of running the social enterprise Muhra<\/a>, where Syrian women (mostly refugees) work and produce jewellery and textiles, which are then sold to foreign buyers via an online shop. The name Muhra in Arabic means something like \u201efemale horse\u201c, which is meant to refer to the unwavering strength of women. For example, the earrings from the \u201eDrop earrings not bombs\u201c campaign were created in the workshop, as well as various original printed textiles (bags and T-shirts).<\/div>\n
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Alongside the work in the workshop, young people (humanitarian volunteers) will be able to hear the stories of people who were forced to leave their homeland because they were afraid of the consequences of war. These are sad memories that European women and men may not understand at first hearing - because of different cultural, ethnic, religious contexts. This is why pre-departure training is important in the management of humanitarian volunteers, so that they are prepared for such situations, conversations, culturally sensitised and avoid possible misunderstandings or conflicts.<\/div>\n
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At the same time, in Istanbul, a multicultural city at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, young people on secondment can grow as individuals while working in an international environment. They will be involved in coordinating local volunteers, communicating with vulnerable groups, and promoting social entrepreneurship and ethical shopping (while promoting Muhra workshop products). Empathy and the ability to adapt quickly will be very welcome in this environment.<\/div>\n
More about volunteering in Istanbul, Turkey coming soon on: https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/dobrovolnicke_vyzvy\/<\/a>
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Text: Boba M. Baluchov\u00e1, Photo: Boba Baluch, BOV\u00c1 ADRA team<\/div>\n
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\nOur activities in Istanbul are part of the project Humanitarian Volunteers in Action<\/em> (Humanitarian Volunteers in Action), <\/em>which is funded by the European Commission under the EU Aid Volunteers <\/em>and managed by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) in cooperation with the EU's Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) and, from 2021, the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC).<\/p>\n

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Na\u0161a kolegy\u0148a sa ned\u00e1vno vr\u00e1tila z tzv. \u201epreparatory visit\u201c z tureck\u00e9ho Istanbulu. Spolu s partnermi ADICE a MONDO z projektu HVA (Humanitarian Volunteers in Action) overovala v mimovl\u00e1dnej organiz\u00e1cii Small Projects Istanbul (SPI) podmienky na prijatie prv\u00fdch humanit\u00e1rnych dobrovo\u013en\u00edkov a dobrovo\u013en\u00ed\u010dok (ak\u00e9 bud\u00fa ich \u0161pecifick\u00e9 \u00falohy, pracovn\u00e9 prostredie, povolenie na pobyt at\u010f.). T\u00ed tam pocestuj\u00fa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,289],"tags":[317,328],"class_list":["post-15894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-vo-svete","tag-dobrovolnictvo","tag-hva"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20564,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions\/20564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}