Our Approach
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Child protection and access to education
Support for the whole household awareness rising
Case referral to match those who need with the right service providers
Community engagement dedicating specific group activities to evaluate needs and orient our actions together
Education
Learning Together
These sessions include a variety of activities, including language support in Turkish, Arabic, and English, and recreational activities such as art, theatre, cinema, and games.
This activity's primary objective is to enhance the children's language skills and provide a creative outlet for self-expression and collaboration within peer groups.
Non-formal education activities are particularly vital for children who may have experienced disruptions in their formal education due to displacement. These sessions not only help bridge educational gaps but also provide a sense of normalcy, aiding the children in coping with the challenges they face. The activities are implemented in a safe and colourful child friendly space.
The case referral mechanism is essential to empower BC participants and meet their needs, scaling up BC’s impact on the ground and helping service providers to have a wider reach for supporting the most vulnerable families and individuals. KR supports access to services for refugees with a constant back and forth follow up process mediating between participants and service providers.
Together we are stronger
Access to services
Case referral
BC collaborates with local actors, NGOs, INGOs and UN agencies for case referral services and currently referred over 50 individuals in need of urgent help for access to services in Gaziantep.
Service providers are IOM, Care, Goal, Kizilay, Orange, Sened, UOSSAM, Sams, focusing on protection, basic needs, and economic empowerment and access to services like hospitals and schools for refugee and earthquake affected families.
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Legal clinic for ID issues
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Access to medical care
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Access to PSS
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Access to school
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Access to economic support
Provide psychological support to help individuals and groups overcome the stress associated with war, loss and earthquake traumas enabling participants to articulate their personal stories in emotionally tolerable and cognitively coherent ways.
Parents
Support mothers dealing with postpartum depression, parental challenges, and gender-based violence, providing a safe space for healing and empowerment.
Address severe anxiety caused by the anti-refugee socio-political climate in Turkey, helping families and children avoid further isolation due to fears of xenophobic aggression.
Children
Offer structured support for children affected by PTSD, selective mutism, aggressiveness, emotional regulation difficulties, and ADHD. This includes actively involving parents and caregivers in the process and coordinating with external providers (e.g., hospitals) when further assistance is needed.
MHPSS
Empowering Emotions
BC operates a dedicated center for MHPSS services, staffed by a specialized team of social workers and psychologists. The center engages with the community through group and individual sessions, supporting over 100 Syrian refugee families in Turkey. Individual sessions are available on booking with a dedicated phone line for both adults and children. The venue also has a dedicated child friendly room for children.
Our MHPSS interventions aim to strengthen participants' ability to recognize and utilize their resources and potential, improving self-efficacy, motivation, self-confidence, psychic energy, and overall psychological well-being.
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Prevention and intervention in case of bullying
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Risks of child labor and early marriage
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Importance of education and risks of school drop out
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Access to legal assistance and address registration for refugees
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Deportation and administrative detention
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Divorce, GVB, and services to be protected from violence
A network of solidarity
We engage a group of 70 mothers and caregivers in raising awareness sessions regarding Child Protection, help the community to prevent child labor and early marriage and gender based violence.
The activities are also a mean of socialization for women that are often isolated.
Rising Awareness
Parents Empowerment
BC offers raising awareness session for parents and caregivers, mostly mothers, about child protection topics and practices to encourage and inform them about better parenting and care practices for their children.
Sessions are an occasion for open discussions and sharing where women feel safe in a welcoming space where judgement is left behind in favor of a sense of mutual understanding.