The women of the Biga Women and Children's Center are continuing their hard work! This week the center was fitted with ceramic tiles in the bathroom and kitchen. Additionally, the future teachers and and volunteers (the lifeblood of the center!) will this week have completed 500 surveys of local families to find out how they might best use the center. In the meantime they are anxiously awaiting an answer from a local firm that might supply some state-of-the-art siding for the outside of the center.
In other news, I am once again fundraising...this time to get myself over to Turkey for the opening ceremony the first week in November! This ceremony will represent the culmination of all of the work done up to this point, as well as the financial resources invested in this worthy project. It will function as a symbol and public showing of our support for these women's work, and for the right of each child in the Biga community to have early childhood education. Our hope is that this ceremony will earn the center respect and legitimacy in the community, as well as spark the interested and earn the trust of potential patrons of the center.
I will be using facebook causes (where this all started!) birthday application to try to raise the additional $500 needed to get me to Turkey and back. Please spread the word!
all my best and thanks for reading,
Jill
Pictures:
1. Center volunteers sorting through piles of donated items for the center:
2. Center volunteers in what will be one of two children's classrooms:
3. Men at work on the center:
4. Ayfer ablam and Omer Kucuk meeting about the building plans:
4. Ayfer ablam and Omer Kucuk meeting about the building plans:
Wonderful to see the progress!
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