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10 years of support for lives without barriers
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Touched the lives of 6.0000 young people with disabilities
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Activities addressing all aspects of life
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An equal & active role in social life through a brand new life journey
As Vodafone Foundation, we have aimed to help disabled individuals break the social exclusion and become an active and productive part of the society through art with the Dreams Academy project, which was launched in 2008 with the collaboration of UNDP and Alternative Life Association.
In the project we completed in 2019, we focused on the personal improvement of the disabled people and provided them with a natural educational field that allows improving values such as sharing, getting to know differences and acknowledging them, being a good problem-solver, productive, and creative. -
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Dreams Academy
Unveiling abilities and potentials of the people with disabilities, Dreams Academy has become the pioneer and the showcase of a new era by supporting company employees to put their most pleasant, sincerest, best efforts against the monster that is the consumption economy, which consumes individuals too. Dreams Kitchen, as one of the best examples of non-profit social business models... Social Inclusion Band representing one of the most visible examples with the strongest message about inclusion, equal opportunities, and employment for people with disabilities... Dreams Academy providing more sophisticated educational opportunities in contrast to the dead-end employment opportunities that are reduced to trivial jobs such as clothespin assembly, stringing beads and shoe cover making; an academy with instructors who are visually or hearing impaired, instructors who use wheelchairs; an academy that uses arts to facilitate reintegration the people who have been excluded because of their disabilities... A 10-year journey... Easier said than done, 365 days multiplied by 10 years... A challenging and proud social change journey that made history through a private sector and NGO partnership seeking to achieve a brand new life model... Yes, an accessible, equal life is not a utopia; we all know that now. It’s more than possible! Thanks to everyone who have shared this journey with us...
Ercan Tutal
Alternative Life Association / Founding Chairman of the Board
Projects
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Coding Tomorrow
As part of the Coding Tomorrow project launched in partnership with the Habitat Foundation, we have been providing coding tutorials to children aged between 7-14 across Turkey since August 2016.
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First6Years Application
Welcome to watch the videos, prepared by ACEV that will contribute to the development of your children between the ages 0-6 and you as a parent. You can click to the Youtube menu icon for the list of all the videos belonging to the relevant age group. We wish you enjoy the videos. Videos for
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Dreams Academy
We have completed the Dreams Academy project in 2019, which was created in 2008 to provide social benefits to disabled people. With the mindset that there is nothing that can hinder art and artists, we have supported the efforts that aim to shatter the social barriers and to help our individuals with disabilities integrate into
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Girl Effect Programme
Positioning mobile technology as the driving force of social change, the Vodafone Group Foundation has joined forces with the Girl Effect programme, which works for girls to have access to mobile technology and mobile content. With this collaboration, it is aimed to support 7 million girls from eight countries through the access opportunity to the mobile
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Support Fund for the Families of the Martyrs
Within the context of Support Fund for the Families of Martyrs, which we constituted in cooperation with Turkish Red Crescent, we provide the children of the martyrs with achievement grant, thus support their academic success.
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Women First in Entrepreneurship
Partnering with the Ministry of National Education and Turkish Informatics Foundation, we launched the Women First in Entrepreneurship project in an attempt to promote economic and social empowerment of women and to contribute to improvement of their levels of education and welfare. The project leverages on the innovations afforded by the information communication technologies to
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