Inspire a love of reading for 700 kids in Turkey

TEGV's library project aims to bring children's libraries to three disadvantaged areas of Turkey: Siirt-Kurtalan, Mardn Savur and Batman.  In each of these areas, there is a dearth of resources for kids, and TEGV's activity locations are an incredibly valuable and important part of each community.

Each library costs approximately $8,000, and we are working to build each library, one by one.  

Right now, we are still focused on the Siirt-Kurtalan location.  With past donations, we have been able to buy books and basic furniture for Siirt-Kurtalan's library, and now we are waiting to collect enough donations to complete the library all together (approximately $5,000).

The children of Siirt Kurtalan continue to enjoy the books and desks we purchased for them with the first set of donations we received. 

It has been a slow period for donations, so please help us pick up the pace!  

All three of the communities we are targeting are in areas of Turkey that particularly in these times need glimmers of hope.  Please help us be that glimmer by providing children with one of the most meaningful thing you can: access to knowledge and resources to build themselves up and out of the disadvantaged circumstances that they are in.

On behalf of our kids, we thank you all for your continued support and interest!

As TEGV, we thank the GlobalGiving community for the support it has given thus far to our Library Project.  With the goal of creating Reading Cultures, this project aims to build three children’s library spaces in remote areas of Turkey, where children otherwise have no, or very limited, access to similar resources.  In addition to providing resources, TEGV uses these spaces to create programming meant to inspire children’s love for and ability in reading.  

Especially in these difficult times for Turkey, and particularly for such communities as the three we are targeting in this project, creating these library spaces and bringing them alive with programming is a much-needed source of joy and hope.

With the first $1100 of donations received through GlobalGiving, we were able to purchase some amount of books, desks and chairs for our Siirt Kurtalan location.  Beyond the excitement of receiving these things, the children were moved by the fact that these purchases had been made possible by donations from around the world.  It moved them to know that people cared enough to invest in them and their futures.  

Since our last report, we have received $365 in new donations, for a total of $2645 thus far.  It has been a slow period for donations, so please share our project with your family and friends.  With a few thousand dollars more of donations, we will be able to completely set up the Siirt Kurtalan space.

We thank all of you for your support and hope that in the next report we will have more to share.