Ankara TRKIYE

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INCLUSIVE SOCIETY STREET CHILDREN

• Ankara- TÜRKIYE

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• Street children, as young as 6 years old, are the
  most visible part of the population of Turkey
• Children working in the streets are those who
  spend part of the day in the streets working in
  order to contribute to the family budget or to
  meet their own financial needs, and who come back
  home early or late at night

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• These children working in the streets of
• metropolitan centres of Turkey can be divided
  into two groups.

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first group

• consists of children who work in the streets
  during the day, and sometimes during the evening
  and night,but who finally return home to stay
  with their family.
• selling napkins, chewing gum,water, sunflower
  seeds, lottery tickets and any other small items
  appropriate to the season.
• dangerous activities such as cleaning the
  windshields of cars stopped at red lights

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second group

• consists of children working and living in the
  streets, who have left their homes and/or whose
  families have disintegrated
• garbage collection and separation in the streets
  as well as at the garbage dumps

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The great majority of children working in the
streets in Turkey belong to the first group.
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• Precise numbers vary from city to city
• Depend on the season of the year
• There is an almost permanent problem in the
  western, southern and south eastern cities, with
  large numbers of migrants.

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WHY THEY NEED TO WORK?

• Poor and unemployed migrants and their
  households are the main source of children
  working in the streets.
• Struggles against poverty, and in some cases
  social unrest, have pushed many rural families
  inTurkey to the metropolitan cities
• Rising unemployment
• Family breakdown
• Low access to quality basic social services.

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OUR PROJECT
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Description of Activity

• Painting the wagon (railway cars) by street
  children and regular school children.

Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting A Treatise
on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons, and
Sleighs Embracing Full and Explicit... by
Hillick, M. C., and Ferrell, Merri M. (Adapted
by)
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Activities

• Painting the wagons (railway cars) by street
  children and regular school children
• Organizing opening ceramony ( introduction
  wagons)
• Children will gave a name to the train
• To organize a long/short trip

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Activities

• Children can write or paint their feelings about
  the process
• These reflections can be put in the train
• Long term activity This train may become a
  regular trasnportation to give education, to make
  social activities for this group

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How and Why?

• Idea come with the newspaper
• Positive feedback of
• Turkish State Railways
• First thought little (painting a wagon)
• Then said why not?
• (arrange a train)

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Our Wider Objectives

• Medium aim
• - To provide street childrens social inclusion,
• - To remind them their childhood roles.
• Long term aim
• - Provide the awareness of the society,
• - Change the point of view of both street
  children and community.
• - Promoting social change at the individual,
  group or organizational level.

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Project-specific objectives

• By making a meaningful occupation (painting
  activity) integration of street children with
  regular school children
• Provide a safe environment for street children
  and equip them with the skills to help them
  re-integrate into society.

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• We will do interviews with children before,
  during and after the project to learn their
  feelings

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• Children write and paint something about their
  feelings in the paper
• Stick paper to wagons inside wall for people to
  read
• Using this wagon in the different route and
  different time by TCDD will be be an example of
  that childrens cooperation.
• http//www.trt.net.tr/23nisan/program.aspx?dileng

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Partners
Support of Semra Sezer

• Hacettepe University OT Unit
• Greater Municipality of Ankara
• Street Children Day Center
• Public Regular School (Ministry of Education)
• Turkish State Railways
• Hacettepe University Art Faculty
• Non Govermental Organisations

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Presentation of Organisation

• Hacettepe University OT Unit
• Experience at networking and organization
• Hacettepe University Art Faculty
• Teaching painting
• Greater Municipality Ankara
• Financial support

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Presentation of Organisation

• Street Children Day Center
• Public Regular School
• Include children
• Turkish State Railways
• Providing wagon and place
• Permission to do our project real
• Organization of the travels

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Human resourcesStreet children Regular school
children OT students Art students
Travel and accomodation Municipality
Equipment/Materials Wagon Brush Paintings and
others
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• The activity will be done at weekends, so the OT
  and teachers could control the progress.
• This activity will be a hobby for the children
  and they will learn to share with the other
  children.

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Where and When

• Railway Station- Sihhiye/Ankara
• Until 23 April 2006(Childrens Festival)
• The festival was presented to children by
  Atatürk. Every year World Children come to Turkey
  at 23 April for the festival. TRT (Turkish
  National Television) prepare an international
  feast every year.

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Why we choose that day?

• 23 rd April, the date of unique and first
  festival for the children goes to the years of
  foundation of Turkish Republic
• 23 rd April has become the date of an official
  festival since first anniversary of foundation of
  the Grand National Assembly and has been
  mentioned as National Festival, Soverignty
  Festival. After that it was congratulated as the
  Week of Children in 1929 and called as National
  Soverignty and Childrens Festival by a special
  law.

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• UNESCO announced World Childrens Day in 1979
• 23 rd April Childrens Festival
• has been celebrated
• by World Children.

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• 23 of April will be opening ceremony and trip to
  anywhere with that children.
• Media and Municipality will come to opening
  ceremony. Therefore we will announce and
  disseminate that project through country
• That children give a name their wagons.

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Work Plan
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• Project Management Team?
• Responsible students of the project
• Hacettepe University OT Unit
• Full Consortium Team?
• Responsible students of the project
• Hacettepe University OT Unit
• Greater Municipality of Ankara
• Street Children Day Center
• Public Regular School (Ministry of Education)
• Turkish State Railways
• Hacettepe University Art Faculty
• Non Govermental Organisations

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• Project Activity Group?
• Responsible students of the project
• Hacettepe University OT Unit
• Hacettepe University Art Faculty
• Street Children Day Center
• Public Regular School (Ministry of Education)
• Local Partner Team ?
• Turkish State Railways
• Greater Municipality of Ankara
• Street Children Day Center
• Public Regular School (Ministry of Education)
• Non Govermental Organisations

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Outcomes

• Provide a safe environment for street children
  and equip them with the skills to help them
  re-integrate into society.
• Promote social change at the individual, group or
  organizational level.
• Develop partnerships with Government Agencies and
  the private and public sectors in order to
  mobilise resources

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Outcomes

• Engagement in an occupation
• Interaction between  person, occupation,
  environment variables
• Enhance the capacity of community social work
  services
• Introduction of the community based
  rehabilitation by the help of media
• Awareness of the society
• Publication in a journal

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References

• .1991. Street Workers in Ankara. report presented
  to ILO Ankara.
• Ertürk, Yakin. 1994. Patterns of Child Labor in
  Rural Turkey. Ankara ILO publication.
• Hancioglu A., Koç I, Dayioglu M.April 2000. The
  Status of Children and Women in Turkey
• Perspectives in the Context of the CRC and CEDAW.
  Submitted to UNICEF, Ankara
• International Labour Office (ILO). 1994a.
  Istanbul Sokaklarinda Çalisan Çocuklar Arastirma
  Projesi Dökümani. (Research Project on Children
  Working on the Streets of Istanbul). Ankara ILO
  yayini.
• ILO and UNICEF. 2000. Investigating Child Labour
  Guidelines for Rapid Assessment, Draft

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References

• Kahramanoglu, Ertan (ed.).1996. Türkiyede
  Çalisan Çocuklar Sorunu ve Çözüm Yollari (The
  Problem of Working Children in Turkey and its
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• Zeytinoglu, Sezen. 1989. Çalisan Çocuklar ve
  Sokak Çocuklari (Working Children and Street
  Children).DPT ve UNICEF Yayini Ankara.
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