A COMPUTER FOR EVERY STUDENT

Dear donor,

On February 6th, Turkey was shaken by two powerful earthquakes which destroyed 11 cities in southeastern Turkey where CYDD has 8 local branches and 3600 scholarship students. About 12.5 million people were affected and 3.5 million of these were children below age 14.

Many families surviving the earthquake lost their houses and their personal belongings and had to move to other towns to stay with relatives or in temporary accommodation offered by municipalities, hotels, boarding houses. Many CYDD scholarship students who were in the region and survived the earthquake could not enter their damaged homes and in the coming months, the heavily damaged houses were demolished with all the furniture and personal belongings inside.

In the days following the earthquake, CYDD branches contacted their scholarship students in the region to assess their needs and sent them right away 1000tl cash for immediate relief. As schools were closed in the region and universities all over the country started once again on-line education, the need for laptop computers was urgent. We tried to buy laptops as donations came and gave new laptops to 214 students who had left theirs under the rubble of their houses..

We still have many students waiting for new computers and hope to supply them all with your support.

Thank you for your ongoing support...

Links:

• http://hhttps://www.cydd.org.tr/news/technology-support-to-our-students-24701/

Dear donor,

At the beginning of each school year when we accept new scholarship students in their first year of secondary school (5th grade) and new students starting high school  (9th grade) , we try to give them notebook computers. Priority is given to students taking part in on-line educational seminars “Pebbles of Science” for secondary school and “Young Starfish” for high schools.

We also give laptop computers to university scholarship students so they can follow free on-line CYDD English language courses and also use them for their studies.

The notebook Hometech computers we give to 5th grade students hopefully last until they graduate from high school but we also have to have a budget for their depreciation.

We try to make purchases when we find good deals and we bought about 300 Hometech computers and 500 Lenovo laptop computers beginning of this school year. We will need to make new purchases for the second group of secondary school students to attend the Pebbles of Science seminars in the next term.

Access to digital technology has become important since the pandemic and it has become one of our major ongoing projects.

We thank you for your donations and look forward to the continuation of your support.

Kind regards,

Dear supporter,

We have started accepting new scholarship applications from secondary school and high school students who come from low income families. Most of these students will need technological support to follow the nonformal online educational courses we have started during the pandemic and will also be continuing during this school year.

This year Pebbles of Science online STEM courses for secondary school children and Young Starfish educational  program for high school girls will benefit 1250 students  and  ¼ of the students will be new comers and at least half of them will need computers and internet support.

We have already purchased 100 new notebook computers with our campaign funds to be distributed to new scholarship students . We will continue our purchases whenever new funds become available.

We  need your valuable support so we can give out more computers to new scholarship girls and have them acquire the necessary 21st century skills through the online courses.

Kind regards,

Dear donor,

We are happy to report that during the pandemic from 2020 to 2022, we handed out more than 5200 tablets, notebook and laptop computers to our scholarship students to be used for on-line formal and nonformal education programs.

In 2020 there was a shortage in the computer market due to the increased demand and we started by giving out tablets to our high school students. However, we started the 2021-2022 school year with early purchases and we distributed 2000 notebook computers to high school and 1000 laptop computers to our university scholarship students.

We hope to continue our support to the new students we will be giving scholarships during 2022-2023 school year.

We thank you for your invaluable support and look forward to your donations.

Kind regards,  

Dear donor,

Students returned to school but continue to attend the CYDD on-line education programs which were developed during the pandemic.

Secondary school students attend online classes twice a week and are introduced to modern sciences with the Project “Pebblestones of Science”. Some of these young students live in small towns and remote villages. We supply them with notebook computers and also give them internet support so that all the children in a household can make use of technology taking turns.

Girls in high school also attend another online course and get acquainted with 21st century skills. We give them notebook computers and internet support when needed. Senior high school students attend special online courses to prepare them for university exams.

University students are given on-line English language courses by CYDD volunteers and some continue their mentorship program on-line.

Your contribution to our computer Project pool is as important as always.

We are grateful for your support.