ODTU GELECEGIMIZ FUND-TOUCH THE LIFE OF SOMEBODY

While I was writing this report, I wished to be in a very good mood, but unfortunately the earthquake prevented it. About 60,000 people lost their lives under 15.000 collapsed buildings.We also identified METU students who lost their family members and homes after the earthquake, as a result of the research conducted by our scholars. Helping these students We matched them with our graduates who wanted to donate money directly to their bank accounts. A total of 1,068,000 TL was sent to 150 earthquake-affected students.
In addition, we have sent 2 scholarships to our earthquake survivors this month. Starting from March, we will start giving scholarships to the students who were most affected by the earthquake in terms of loss of life and property. We will provide scholarships to earthquake victims who will win our university and become students next October.
That's why we need your increased support. Last year, we broke a record by realizing our budget estimate of 3,300,000 TL to 5,200,000 TL. This year's donation estimate is 6,500,000 TL. I believe we will easily exceed this target with your support.
We organized the traditional alumni-scholarship meetings on the campus between 21-24 December
2022. Our 20 graduates came together with 700 scholars in 4 days and got to know each other.
Our 52 scholars who wanted to benefit from our "coach support" program this year were matched with internationally certified coaches by Naci Demiral, the founder of The Coaching Company and his team, who have voluntarily provided this support to us for 6 years.
The mentors of our 57 scholars who want mentor support will be determined next week.

The new academic year started in October. As usual, applications for METU fund scholarships were plentiful. After artificial intelligence eliminated some of the 1250 applications, we started interviews with 600 students. Eventually, 280 new scholars will join the group and our total number of scholars will reach 500. We, as TEV, increased our scholarship amounts from 800 TL to 1325 TL in our country where we experience much more than the high inflation in the whole world. Although our donations increased by 60% compared to last year, we continue to search for new resources.Our scholarship student Sümeyra participated last year and won the marathon with the donations she collected. Now it's Elif's turn. We look forward to the support of all our donors.

It was completed in the 2021-22 academic year and the final exams were completed. 52 of our scholarshipholders were graduated from university among 81 seniors,and they even started their business life. Unfortunately, the rest have extended their educational life for another year.This year, due to the high inflation in Turkey, as well as devaluation, scholarship holders, especially from low-income families, were in a very difficult situation. Despite the great economic crisis in our country, our donors have helped our fellow students by providing incredible additonal support.We thank all of them. June October 2022, their scholarships were equalized to USD 50 while they received a scholarship of TL800 for approximately USD100 per month in October 2021.TEV Board of Directors increased the scholarship amount to 1200 TL for 80 USD for the 2022-23 academic year. In addition, this year METU OUR FUTURE Fund has set the number of scholarship holders as 500.Thus, when we add those who lost their scholarships this year due to their poor performance and those who were graduated, we will select about 250 new scholarship holders.Scholarship interviews will be online this year.
As we did before the pandemic, we organized scholarship-graduate meetings on campus in the 2021-22 academic year.29 graduates and 719 scholarship holders attended the last meeting.Certificates of thanks to the graduates who came to the meeting were given by Arif Aygündüz.Donors,senior fellows dined together.
As every year, in this year, on the days of Mothers and Fathers, our buriyers called and celebrated the donor mothers and fathers. We have received very good feedback from donors, they were all very pleased

Despite the harsh economic conditions we have been exposed to due to reasons beyond our control, we have managed to continue our recovery process stronger than ever. Gaining attention in the local media and among the well-known non-governmental organisations, ODTÜ Gelecegimiz Burs Fonu is relentlessly working towards providing more students with the needed financial support to help in their academic careers.

In the following education year, the Turkish Education Foundation will do everything in its power to continue providing for the dozens of students who are benefitting from this fund. 

We are hoping to enlarge the scope of our work soon, and we would like to use this opportunity to thank all of our supporters for their selfless contributions to this noble cause! This wouldn't be possible without your generous donations, and we would like you to know that your support doesn't go unnoticed: you have become the hope for these young minds who will be the shining stars of Turkey in the future!