Ankara: Charity Work
If you would like to join a Charity Association and help the ones who need help, you can join the following groups:
Rotary: Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who come together to make positive, lasting change in communities at home and abroad.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary members have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end".
There is an English speaking Rotary club in Ankara.
The Ankara Refugee Lunch Support Group: is a group of volunteers who help assylum seekers. For their interview, refugees are coming from different provinces and are usually spending all day at the waiting room in UNHCR. We are supplying tea, sugar, lunch, biscuits, baby food and fruit. There are different groups of volunteers for each weekday. Some groups cook or prepare sandwiches; some order meals from a sponsoring restaurant. For more information contact Margherita Eksi .Margherita's phone number is: 0 533 243 8718.
Rotary: Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who come together to make positive, lasting change in communities at home and abroad.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary members have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end".
There is an English speaking Rotary club in Ankara.
The Ankara Refugee Lunch Support Group: is a group of volunteers who help assylum seekers. For their interview, refugees are coming from different provinces and are usually spending all day at the waiting room in UNHCR. We are supplying tea, sugar, lunch, biscuits, baby food and fruit. There are different groups of volunteers for each weekday. Some groups cook or prepare sandwiches; some order meals from a sponsoring restaurant. For more information contact Margherita Eksi .Margherita's phone number is: 0 533 243 8718.
Lösev: (The Foundation for Children with Leukemia) LÖSEV is a non-profit NGO, mainly aiming to provide educational and emotional support, financial assistance and health services for children who have leukemia or chronic blood disorders, in order to help them cope with a life-threatening illness. Other goals are to promote knowledge and provide instruction on an international level regarding acquired and inherited blood diseases, as well as establish and operate research institutions. Reşit Galip Cd. İlkadım Sk. No:14, GOP. Tel: 447 0660.
KADER Jesuit Refugee Service: KADER JRS serves the vulnerable refugee communities of Ankara and Kırıkkale. We accept donations of clothing, shoes, pots, sheets, toys and any other household goods. Donations can be dropped off at Birlik Mahallesi, 428 Cad, no. 35 (the lower gate of the Vatican Embassy). Donations can be dropped off Monday-Saturday between 10 am and 4 pm. Please do not leave donations outside the gate after hours.
>We also run English conversation groups and arts & crafts groups for children at our social centre in Kırıkkale. To get involved, please email kaderjrs.volunteers@gmail.com
>> Please get in contact with them via email or via their Facebook page before wanting to drop items off. There are moments they have not enough space
You can also drop items at UNHCR office: Tiflis Cad. 552. Sok. No:3 Sancak Mah. Tel: (0312) 409 7000 for more information
Flying Broom (Uçan Süpürge): a women’s organization working for the improvement of democracy and civil society. Flying Broom aims to enhance gender equality consciousness, provide information and training to empower women, and contribute to the development of efficient policies for solving women’s problems stemming from inequality. For more information check their website or send an email.
TAIWCCS Bookmobile: The Bookmobile Committee is responsible for going out to needy elementary schools that are pre-selected each year in and around Ankara to distribute reading books, supplies to the schools/classrooms and used clothing to the children. The committee works very hard on a weekly basis to keep the books in good condition and once a month goes out to those chosen schools to deliver a variety of books for the children to read that month, operating as a kind of traveling library. For more information check their website or send an email.
Heart Workers: A small group of people who express their solidarity with the refugees.
TEGV-Educational volunteers foundation of Turkey: They provide educational programs for children. Main office is in Istanbul, but they also are in Ankara.
Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği: Kültür Mahallesi, Mithatpaşa Caddesi Kıvanç apt No:54 D:12, Çankaya. Tel: (0312) 434 1444.
KADER Jesuit Refugee Service: KADER JRS serves the vulnerable refugee communities of Ankara and Kırıkkale. We accept donations of clothing, shoes, pots, sheets, toys and any other household goods. Donations can be dropped off at Birlik Mahallesi, 428 Cad, no. 35 (the lower gate of the Vatican Embassy). Donations can be dropped off Monday-Saturday between 10 am and 4 pm. Please do not leave donations outside the gate after hours.
>We also run English conversation groups and arts & crafts groups for children at our social centre in Kırıkkale. To get involved, please email kaderjrs.volunteers@gmail.com
>> Please get in contact with them via email or via their Facebook page before wanting to drop items off. There are moments they have not enough space
You can also drop items at UNHCR office: Tiflis Cad. 552. Sok. No:3 Sancak Mah. Tel: (0312) 409 7000 for more information
Flying Broom (Uçan Süpürge): a women’s organization working for the improvement of democracy and civil society. Flying Broom aims to enhance gender equality consciousness, provide information and training to empower women, and contribute to the development of efficient policies for solving women’s problems stemming from inequality. For more information check their website or send an email.
TAIWCCS Bookmobile: The Bookmobile Committee is responsible for going out to needy elementary schools that are pre-selected each year in and around Ankara to distribute reading books, supplies to the schools/classrooms and used clothing to the children. The committee works very hard on a weekly basis to keep the books in good condition and once a month goes out to those chosen schools to deliver a variety of books for the children to read that month, operating as a kind of traveling library. For more information check their website or send an email.
Heart Workers: A small group of people who express their solidarity with the refugees.
TEGV-Educational volunteers foundation of Turkey: They provide educational programs for children. Main office is in Istanbul, but they also are in Ankara.
Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği: Kültür Mahallesi, Mithatpaşa Caddesi Kıvanç apt No:54 D:12, Çankaya. Tel: (0312) 434 1444.
Associations & Groups:
There are several associations and groups of all kinds in Ankara:
Facebook Groups:
Google Groups:
You must be a member in order to receive or send emails, ask or share information.
There are several associations and groups of all kinds in Ankara:
- DMEDD (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spouses Association): They also organize trips, Bridge afternoons and many other activities.
- Bonjour Ankara: Association created by French speaking Turkish people about 30 years ago. They organize different activities, cooking, reading clubs, beads,sculpture, French, Turkish and English conversations, walk around Eymir Gölü on Thursdays, etc.... and they welcome everybody willing to socialize (and practice French!). Check their website or send email for more information
- Ankara Accueil: Association for French speakers.
- Turkish British Association: They also provide English classes.
- Turkish-American Association: Cinnah Cadesi 20. They have courses to learn English and Turkish, very professional.
- TAIWCCS (Turkish American International Women's Cultural and Charitable Society): Contact: Meliha Akbay: Tel: 468 3948 or cell: 0532 3001137.
- Ankara Toastmasters: The club meets every Tuesday between 19:00 and 20:30 at Turkish-American Association on Cinnah Cad. No:20. For more information, please send an Email.
- Stage on the run: www.turknet.ws/stageontherun (if you want to act)
- ARIT (American Research Association in Turkey): contact: Dr. Elif Denel, Director, Tel: 427-2222
- Ankara Women's Club (AWC): Mail: ankarawomensclub@yahoo.com
Facebook Groups:
- Ankara Expat Life: A Facebook Group where any foreigner who lives in Ankara can join, post and share Information. (More than 6000 Members)
Google Groups:
You must be a member in order to receive or send emails, ask or share information.
- Ankara Expat Connection: Conversations are all in English
- Ankara Spanish Speakers: Conversations are all in Spanish
- Deutschsprachige in Ankara: Conversations are all in German
- Francophones a Ankara: Conversations are all in French
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