Jun
07
2024
Healing Through Sewing: Defne Özyeğin Sewing Workshop
One of the best ways to recover after a disaster is by overcoming trauma through solidarity and unity. Sharing experiences, talking to each other, and lightening the burden through conversation help in healing. Learning together, gaining new experiences together, and producing together speed up the psychological healing process. In Hatay, one of the cities that suffered the most destruction and loss in the February 6th Earthquakes, we have...
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May
06
2024
A Survivor Girl Against Violence
Our priority is to support everyone against gender-based violence. We work to ensure that women know their rights and receive legal aid. Nineteen-year-old Elvin, who was married twice as a child and survived violence, is one of the beneficiaries of our legal aid program.
Elvin* migrated to Hatay, Türkiye from Syria with her family when she was ten years old. Elvin, the eldest of the six children, does not remember anything about Syria, she...
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May
02
2024
On The Fault Line: Yaylakonak
This year, winter was milder than last year in all parts of Türkiye. Especially those living in temporary shelters in the earthquake zone are grateful for this situation. Because even the mild winter was a very difficult period for these families. In late March and early April, as STL's communication team, we visited Adıyaman and Kahramanmaraş, two of the provinces that suffered the most damage in the 6 February Earthquakes. Our aim was to...
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Mar
19
2024
"I Would Not Be Able To Buy My Needs Without This Support"
Our voucher card project, which we carry out to respond to the hygiene needs that still exist in the earthquake zone, continues. Hafza, a mother of 5 children living in a container city in Hatay, told us about her story of survival after the earthquake and the impact of our voucher card project on her life.
Hafza* came to Türkiye from Syria in 2011 when the war started. When they fled, her first child had been born 11 days before and she...
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Feb
15
2024
“We Are In Dire Need Of Cleaning Supplies, Support Is Important”
How does the voucher card project for hygiene needs we implemented in Hatay work? Aya, Rana, Ali and Omar living in temporary shelters tell their experience.
In Hatay, one of the provinces most affected by the February 6 earthquakes, access to clean water and hygiene supplies remains limited, especially for those living in informal shelters. The lack of access to hygiene brings with it the risk of epidemics, particularly scabies cases in...
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Sep
07
2023
Supporting Women in Hatay After the Earthquake Disaster
Mine Çelik Çökmez, who has been working as a field worker in the Support to Life Hatay outreach team for 4 years, explains the changes in the support to women after the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye on February 6.
Seven months have passed since the February earthquakes that affected the lives of more than nine million people. Before the earthquakes, the main goal of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC)’s and humanitarian project in...
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Apr
17
2023
Rebuilding Life in Hatay
We are continuing our emergency efforts in Hatay that is one of the most gravely affected provinces from the earthquake; support lives of people affected from the earthquake prominently by meeting hygiene needs and improving shelter conditions*. The future is still unclear, life is still difficult, but the deep connection people of Hatay establish with each other and their provinces is sufficient for a gleam of hope.
It is estimated that 2...
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