Lend a Hand and Let's Grow Together

Dear donor,

As we start the second decade of our project, this year we aim to reach 1000-1200 mentor-menti pairs from all CYDD branches that give university scholarships.

An important decision taken this year is to have as many as possible mentors from among CYDD alumni. The prerequisite for being a mentor is a work experience of minimum 3 years and priority will be given to CYDD graduates who have been in the workplace for at least three years. We hope to have some young mentors who previously were menti students in the first years of the same project.

Another breakthrough in the project is the implementation of an impact analysis study. During the first ten years of the project, internal assessments and evaluations were regularly made with questionnaires sent to both menti students and their mentors. At the end of our tenth year we have started a more thorough impact analysis study in collaboration with Ms Kizbu who is the Director of Independent Evaluation Laboratory at Koç University Istanbul. The results of this first survey will be available by mid August and we hope to share it with you in our next report.

We thank you for supporting our project and look forward to your donations.

Kindly yours,

Links:

• Project website (in turkish)
• project description (in Turkish)
• Project guide (in Turkish)

Dear donor,

Starting in January, several seminars and “Awareness meetings among mentis” were organized by CYDD Project team

Journalist-writer Demet Cengiz was the guest of our first meeting in February. Our guest talked about her journalism, writing and forestry careers and about what she learned from important people she met as a journalist.

The second meeting held in March was about “Mentoring in the Digital World”. Our guest was EMCC Turkey (European Guidance and Coaching Association) Social Responsibility Projects team leader and Google certified mentor Banu Aykn Köylüer.

A special 8 week program “First Step to My Career” was designed for 3^rd and 4^th grade mentiis and volunteers from GE Turkey Women’s Network team are giving the seminars. Subjects are Inspiring Women-Guest speaker, Effective CV Creation, Developing Interview Skills, Motivation, Working OutLoud (WOL) workshop, Personal Branding, Networking.

Various CYDD branches taking part in mentorship project are also organizing educational seminars for the students of their branch:

Mersin CYDD : Job Search skills training

Ankara CYDD: Career planning and CV preparation

Eskisehir CYDD : Time management training

Merter CYDD: Career days talks “ effective communication” “interview techniques” “speeches to listen” “first step in the career path- an effective CV”

Seminars will be continued in April and May and you can read about them in our next report.

Thank you for supporting our university students with your donations.

Kind regards,