Cook together for TIAFI day centre
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Welcome and Thank you for the interest in our aim to fundraise for this project. By donating something towards this project you help us to cook and feed 30-40 people a day in the new daycare centre;
TIAFI,(Tiafi stands for Turkish and International Assistence for Integration. They are based in Izmir and help Syrian women & kids without means build up their lives again)
Izmir counts nearly 200.000 refugees in and around the city.
Cees and I stayed here to volunteer and helped in the kitchen and we where impressed by the work the centre is doing if only more centre's like this could be started it will make a DIFFERENCE.
Abdul, one of there Syrian volunteers, said: "If you want to help, you have to change lives. You can donate food, but it is so much more effective to teach a language and create jobs." And that is exactly what they are doing at Tiafi. They empower women (widows) so that they are able to make a decent living for their kids. It is all about their future. Follow all there news:
https://www.facebook.com/Tiafi.org/
http://www.tiafi.org/
(If you send a donation you will also be entered in our monthly draw to win a weekend away full board in our glamping cabin with hottub at Slieve aughty centre.)
In Februarie, we (Esther and Cees) saw Anne O’Rourke’s RTE interview and decided we want to raise money for Anne O’Rourke, also from Ireland, she is working tirelessly on the ground in Turkey in Izmir.
Many young women have lost their husbands and families during war, or in their flight from the conflict and they now find themselves living alone with their children as single-parent mothers in the Aegean city of Izmir with very little support. At present the vast majority of these women have very little opportunity to securely establish themselves and develop a livelihood and we want to help to change this.
Refugee women in Izmir are generally living in rudimentary and often dangerous conditions at extortionate prices. By establishing a safe space for these vulnerable women and their children in the heart of Buca we will enable them to preserve their dignity and develop a secure livelyhood.
Tiafi Day Centre, is a former shoe factory, in a residential area where a lot of refugees and Turks live. With 20 local volunteers united in the NGO "hand to hand" and Dutch Volunteers United in lemon foundation
and your and our donation , including quite a number of refugees, this old factory is transfomed into a market place, a place for independent information, a kitchen and tea room, a (2nd hand) clothing store, a sewing shop where they make beautiful bags, child care, a classroom , a fisiotherapeut room and a safe place for women and kids.
I got in touch with Anne O'Rourke in February 2017 and offered to fundraise and volunteer. I plan to raise €10,000 to support this project .
Thank you for your support!
And we will keep you updated.
Esther, Cees and Slieve aughty team.
'If you live in abundance make your table bigger, not your fence higher”
TIAFI,(Tiafi stands for Turkish and International Assistence for Integration. They are based in Izmir and help Syrian women & kids without means build up their lives again)
Izmir counts nearly 200.000 refugees in and around the city.
Cees and I stayed here to volunteer and helped in the kitchen and we where impressed by the work the centre is doing if only more centre's like this could be started it will make a DIFFERENCE.
Abdul, one of there Syrian volunteers, said: "If you want to help, you have to change lives. You can donate food, but it is so much more effective to teach a language and create jobs." And that is exactly what they are doing at Tiafi. They empower women (widows) so that they are able to make a decent living for their kids. It is all about their future. Follow all there news:
https://www.facebook.com/Tiafi.org/
http://www.tiafi.org/
(If you send a donation you will also be entered in our monthly draw to win a weekend away full board in our glamping cabin with hottub at Slieve aughty centre.)
In Februarie, we (Esther and Cees) saw Anne O’Rourke’s RTE interview and decided we want to raise money for Anne O’Rourke, also from Ireland, she is working tirelessly on the ground in Turkey in Izmir.
Many young women have lost their husbands and families during war, or in their flight from the conflict and they now find themselves living alone with their children as single-parent mothers in the Aegean city of Izmir with very little support. At present the vast majority of these women have very little opportunity to securely establish themselves and develop a livelihood and we want to help to change this.
Refugee women in Izmir are generally living in rudimentary and often dangerous conditions at extortionate prices. By establishing a safe space for these vulnerable women and their children in the heart of Buca we will enable them to preserve their dignity and develop a secure livelyhood.
Tiafi Day Centre, is a former shoe factory, in a residential area where a lot of refugees and Turks live. With 20 local volunteers united in the NGO "hand to hand" and Dutch Volunteers United in lemon foundation
and your and our donation , including quite a number of refugees, this old factory is transfomed into a market place, a place for independent information, a kitchen and tea room, a (2nd hand) clothing store, a sewing shop where they make beautiful bags, child care, a classroom , a fisiotherapeut room and a safe place for women and kids.
I got in touch with Anne O'Rourke in February 2017 and offered to fundraise and volunteer. I plan to raise €10,000 to support this project .
Thank you for your support!
And we will keep you updated.
Esther, Cees and Slieve aughty team.
'If you live in abundance make your table bigger, not your fence higher”
Organizer
Esther Zyderlaan
Organizer
