Our Vision, Mission and Focus
Our Vision: Enabling people and reducing reliance
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Our Mission: Strengthening of migrants and refugees by helping them to integrate into host societies through education, awareness building, skills enhancement, and coordination of efforts
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Our Focus: Our focus is on refugees, migrants, displaced persons and vulnerable people with particular attention to women, children, disabled, elderly and minorities
Objectives
We aim to achieve the following objectives in the long run:
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Availability of more information and data (qualitative and quantitative) in the field of migration through in depth study and research to contribute to effective decision making
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Building capacity of refugee groups to help them become economically self-sufficient;
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Reduce reliance of refugee families on aid organizations;
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Enhancing situation of the children of target refugee families by helping to improve economic condition of the families and reducing child labor;
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Raising awareness about the risks and challenges of human smuggling and irregular migration and capping the urge to migrating irregularly;
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Enabling refugees to adapt and integrate into the host communities in Turkey and beyond;
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Contribution to the host economies by mobilizing and strengthening capacities of refugees and migrants;
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Creation of synergies between host communities and the incoming people;
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Raising cultural awareness between peoples of the host country and the countries of origin;
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Provision of needed assistance to vulnerable groups such as disabled people, elderly, and women with special needs;
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Providing assistance packages to the needy people in the country of origin (to prevent migrations out of poverty)
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Creating a network of NGOs in Turkey and other countries (active in the field of migration and refugees) with an aim to coordinate efforts