Young NEFs is a youth project initiated in cooperation with Kerim Education, Culture and Health Foundation and NEF Foundationwith the aim of raising generations with social awareness.

This study, which will support our children and young people to grow up as active volunteers, was implemented as a pilot in the 2017-2018 academic year and this study was initiated with the families of Kerim Foundation employees. It is planned that the project will be shaped and grow with the feedback of the families who supported the pilot study.

In our children’s busy schedules of school and extracurricular activities, we planned a plan that would not tire them out and encourage them to participate in the future.

In this context, four to six different activity sessions were planned each month and announced to the families at the beginning of each month.

The video you are watching contains interviews with some of our children who participated in the 6-month field project.

Project Name: Young Breaths
Project Coordinator: Kerim Education, Culture and Health Foundation
Project Partner: NEF Foundation
Project Coordinators: Ebru Arslan, Sibel Inci

In order to enable Turkish youth living in Germany to recognize their national, spiritual and cultural values and historical roots on the spot, in their own geography and to contribute to the establishment of belonging relations with their homeland, we are a project partner.
“Journey to the Roots”
The project was supported by the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities. This project, which will take place between 25 July and 3 August 2018, aims to introduce our young people to their own culture and history in the places they visit, to increase their cultural knowledge, to equip them with the knowledge of their own historical and cultural richness, to encourage them to speak Turkish and to establish lasting friendships for the future.

Within the scope of this project, 28 young people from Germany will visit historical and cultural sites in 4 different cities with young people from Istanbul, who will also participate in the project from Turkey, and conduct seminars and workshops on history, culture, art, literature and civilization.

Project date: July 25 – August 3, 2018

Number of participants: 28 university students from Germany and 3 from Istanbul

Project Owner:

• DIALOGFORUM ZUR FÖRDERUNG DES KULTURELLEN AUSTAUSCHES DER INTEGRATİON E.V.

Registration No: VR 14145 Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main

Address: Am Pohlsberg 6 – Address: Am Pohlsberg 6

Project Partners:

• DIALOGFORUM ZUR FÖRDERUNG DES KULTURELLEN AUSTAUSCHES DER INTEGRATİON E.V.
• KERİM EDUCATION, CULTURE AND HEALTH FOUNDATION
• TÜRKKAD, ISTANBUL BRANCH OF TURKISH WOMEN’S CULTURAL ASSOCIATION