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The Start-Off

It is known that in our country the ratio of girls continuing their education especially after primary school is lower than boys. To deal with this problem the Ministry of Education has accelerated building dormitories for girls and initiated fund raising campaigns for girls’ education such as “Girls, Let’s Go to School” and “Mom & Girl at School”

In Turkey 15% of the young aged between 15-19 do not have a primary school diploma. Every 7 out of 10 young without a primary school diploma is ‘girls’1.

%12.3 of women are illiterate.

1 2006 Household Workpower Survey results, conducted by Dinçer and Kolaşin 2008.

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What do we aim with the campaign “Daddy, Send Me to School”

On April 23rd, 2005, we announced our campaign “Daddy, Send Me to School”, through newspapers and TV.

We realized from the various studied conducted, the task of introducing young girls to the educational system could be tackled under three main headings::

1- Financial support

2- Improving the quality of social life

3- Enhancing social consciousness and structural problems.

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What should be done?

1) Financial support

Constructing dormitories for girls at secondary school.

Building schools, classrooms where needed.

Giving scholarships especially to girls at 6th, 7th, and 8th grades

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What should be done?

2- Improving the quality of social life

Constitution of social living spaces in dormitories, and developing sports facilities

Giving opportunities to girls to meet role models in big cities such as İstanbul and İzmir

Contributing to girls’ development through collaboration with universities

Motivating talented girls by organizing competitions in the fields of painting, poetry and essay writing.

Organizing private seminars on the subjects of hygiene at common living spaces, body health etc.

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What should be done?

3) Enhancing social consciousness and

structural problems

Enhancing common consciousness by means of news about the importance of education of girls and education in general.

Educating parents

Announcing the best practices to public

Gaining local contribution and public support for girls’ education

We established a steering commitee in Milliyet from various disciplines and for two years had weekly meetings.

We worked with Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) such as ÇYDD, TUKD, AÇEV, TAP.

ÇYDD was our strategic partner in this project that we had a mutual steering commitee with them and organized monthly meetings.

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How we have done it?

* Established strong relationships with NPOs

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What have we done so far?

1) Financial aid

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What have we done so far?

List of the Dormitories and Schools:

*: One dormitory in Ağrı, and other dormitories in Konya, Trabzon and Uşak , total for dormitories, will be opened in September 2011.

CITY # of SCHOOLS CONSTRUCTED

AĞRI 1İSTANBUL 1MARDİN 1MUŞ 6ŞANLIURFA 2TOTAL: 11

CITY# of DORMITORIES

CONSTRUCTEDTOTAL CAPACİTY of

DORMITORIES

AĞRI * 3 300

ARTVİN 1 75

BARTIN 1 200

DENİZLİ 1 100

ERZURUM 2 300

GÜMÜŞHANE 4 400

IĞDIR 1 120

İSTANBUL 1 100

KAHRAMANMARAŞ 2 100

KARS 4 520

KONYA * 1 100

MARDİN 2 200

MUĞLA 1 50

MUŞ 1 100

OSMANİYE 1 250

SİİRT 1 100

TEKİRDAĞ 1 150

TOKAT 1 100

TRABZON * 1 100

UŞAK * 1 100

VAN 1 100

YALOVA 1 120

TOTAL: 33 3685

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What have we done so far?

Photos with the students staying in BBOG dormitories and schools:

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What have we done so far?

Photos with the students staying in BBOG dormitories and schools:

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What have we done so far?

2- Improving the quality of social life

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What have done so far?

3) Enhancing common consciousness

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Istatistics-1

Schooling ratio by educational year and level of education

Educationa

l Year

Primary education Secondary education

Total MalesFemale

sTotal Males

Females

2005/'06 89,77 92,29 87,16 56,63 61,13 51,95             2006/'07 90,13 92,25 87,93 56,51 60,71 52,16             2007/'08 97,37 98,53 96,14 58,56 61,17 55,81             

2008/'09 96,49 96,99 95,97 58,52 60,63 56,30             2009/'10 98,17 98,47 97,84 64,95 67,55 62,21             2010/'11 98,40 98,60 98,20 69,30 72,40 66,10

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Istatistics-2

Schooling rates in respect to the characteristics in the household

Source: Household Labor Force Survey (2008)

2008Male Female

Participation in Primary School

Participation in Secondary School

Participation in Primary School

Participation in Secondary School

Total 99,00% 51,80% 97,30% 48,90%

Residential AreaRural 98,80% 40,20% 95,70% 30,00%

City 99,00% 56,30% 98,00% 58,30%

number of siblings

0-1 99,50% 62,40% 99,20% 66,10%

2-3 99,00% 48,90% 97,90% 47,30%

4 or more 97,50% 31,20% 91,80% 21,10%

Education level of the Head of the Household

Illiterate 96,50% 28,20% 90,60% 15,60%

Literate 96,20% 29,40% 90,50% 20,20%

5 yrs of education in Primary School

99,00% 46,20% 97,30% 44,10%

Grad. from Primary School

99,60% 65,60% 98,90% 63,70%

Grad. from Secondary School

99,70% 82,70% 99,40% 80,70%

Grad. from University & above

99,80% 91,50% 99,80% 94,10%

Working sector of the head of the household

Agriculture 98,70% 37,30% 94,50% 24,00%

Sectors other than aggriculture

99,20% 59,20% 98,30% 60,20%

Single mother parenting households 98,40% 48,30% 96,50% 45,40%

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Istatistics-3

Absenteeism rates in primary schools (source: MEB 2011)

Absenteeism rates in secondary schools (source: MEB 2011)

 

Enrollment Rates

Female/Male % (ages btw 6-13 yrs)

Female/Male % (all ages)

Absenteeism %

 

Total Female Male Total Female Male

2009-2010 98,20% 97,80% 98,50% 94,00% 94,00% 10,40% 8,90% 11,70%

2010-2011 98,40% 98,20% 98,60% 94,50% 94,90% 11,60% 10,30% 12,70%

 

Enrollment Rates Female/Male % Absenteeism % in

Secondary SchoolsAbsenteeism % in Technical

Secondary Schools

 

Total Female MaleTotal Secondary

SchoolsSecondary Schools

Technical Secondary

SchoolsTotal Female Male Total Female Male

2009-2010 65,00% 62,20% 67,60% 84,70% 95,40% 73,10% 44,40% 39,50% 49,10% 49,00% 39,30%56,20%

2010-2011 69,30% 66,10% 72,30% 83,60% 93,60% 73,30% 28,00% 22,60% 33,10% 35,70% 26,60%42,40%

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Istatistics-4

Regional absenteeism rates in education(source: MEB 2011)

2010-2011 Devamsızlık Oranları

% 0,0% 2,0% 4,0% 6,0% 8,0

% 10,0% 12,0% 14,0% 16,0% 18,0% 20,0

Toplam

Kız

Erkek

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Istatistics-5

Drop out rates in secondary schools - in accordance with the type of education (source: MEB 2010)

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Resmi ve örgünortaöğretim

Akademik seçicil iseler (Anadolu

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Genel l iseler Mesleki veteknik l iseler

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Istatistics-6

Regional drop out rates in secondary schools (source: MEB 2010)

2010-2011 Terk Oranları

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Employment rates according to the level of education (source: Household Labor Force Survey (2008))

FEMALE MALE

 

Working % Unemployed % % not in Labor force (inactive) Working % Unemployed % % not in Labor force (inactive)

Literate 15.59 0.75 83.66 37.19 7,75 55.05

5 yrs of education in primary schools 21.48 2,08 76.44 64.04 9,03 26.93

Graduate from primary schools 15.36 3,41 81.22 49.94 10,12 39.94

Graduate from secondary schools 21.53 7,86 70.61 59.06 9,96 30.98

Graduate from technical secondary schools 28.53 9,52 61.94 70.52 9,91 19.57

Graduate from university & above 59.23 11,32 29.45 74.74 7,04 17.86

All male & females 21.79 3,35 74.86 59.48 9,13 31.39

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Our Awards

Doğan Media Group 2005 Creativity Awards, The Most Creative Social Responsibility Project

Capital Magazine Year’s Best Social Responsibility Project in 3 consecutive years

World Children Union Appreciation Award (UNESCO) IPRA UN Special Award Magazine Editors Association Special Award Turkish National Olympic Committee 2005 Public Fair Play Career Award Anadolu Bil Meslek Yüksek Okulu 2nd Traditional Communication Awards, Best

Campaign of the Year İ Medya İnteraktive Media Broadcasting Special Award Lions’ Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Public Leadership Award Kadir Has University Honorary Award Galatasaray University Best of 2006 Awards Best Social Responsibility Project YTU Stars of Year 2006 Most Liked Social Responsibility Project KTU Management and Economy Club 2006 Mediatic Survey, Best Social

Responsibility Project

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What can we do?

To support:

Education of girls who play a primary role in the education of future generations must be a social campaign owned by the public. If we do not take action today, tomorrow might be too late.It is possible to help a girl continue her education for monthly 44 TL (23 euro). Unfortunately, very basic problems of education haven’t been solved yet. Everybody has a responsibility on this matter. We believe problems can be solved easily with common consciousness.

Mobile phone holders can

Write Burs (scholarship) and send to 5414

Write Yurt (dormitory) and send to 5415

With each message one can contribute 10 TL (5 euro)

On bbog.org website one can fill the credit card form to contribute monthly 44 TL (23 euro) to commit a girl’s scholarship.

One can contribute to building of a dormitory by a wire transfer of 525 TL (272 euro) to Türkiye İş Bankası, account no 805805.

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