LET'S EMPOWER GIRLS BY SUPPORTING THEIR EDUCATION

Dear donor,

In order to ensure that girls can benefit equally from the right to education and to provide all students with equal opportunities in education and access to modern education without discrimination, Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi initiated the “I Have a Daughter in Anatolia, She Will Be a Teacher” (ABKV) project by giving scholarships to 17 female students in 1997. Within the scope of this project, which was implemented with the motto “No Girl Left Without Schooling!”, a total of 104,915 secondary and high school scholarships have been given so far.

Cydd supports the education of children who are in socioeconomically vulnerable groups and who are generally deprived of their right to education. These girls, if not supported to continue their education, are married off at an early age and again give birth early. Girls who marry at a young age and have a low level of education, also have a very low employment participation rate later in life and work in jobs without social security.

So with your donations, we hope to increase every year the number girls who stay in high school and do not become child brides..

Thank you for your valuable support..

Kindly yours

Dear donor,

In 2023-2024 school year we accepted 1132 new high school students to our scholarship program “I have a daughter in Anatolia, she will be a teacher”. This year the number of new scholarship students is relatively low compared to the past three years because last year after the earthquake of Feb 6th, we had to accept more than 1000 students in the middle of the school year. The total number of secondary and high school students we support in 2023-24 is 9518.

We are proud to announce that 995 of the 1528 high school graduates of last year are continuing on to university and we are supporting them with university scholarships. The 65% success rate is the highest of the past years and is thanks to our Project “From highschool to university” which prepares with free of charge online courses  the attendants for university exams.

When we accept students to our scholarship program, we have to make provisions to support them until their graduation. Due to the high inflation in Turkey in the recent years, scholarship amounts had to be increased much more than the rates calculated in previous years. For this reason, to support the existing students and to accept more students, we rely on your donations.Thank you for your great support.