Mission & Activities
AD.DAR, which means home in Arabic, is a community initiative for Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Turkey.
As a volunteer-based community center, AD.DAR helps Syrian and Palestinian families, young adults and students to rebuild their lives here in Turkey.
Currently, AD.DAR runs a therapeutic workshop for children, Turkish and English language classes for adults, children and teen's art classes, film nights, yoga and a theater group for young adults.
Some kind of support we offer:
- Therapeutic workshop for children (5-12) on Saturdays and Sundays
- Turkish, English and Toefl classes
- Frequent trainings and workshops such as storytelling, art workshops, team buildings, photo journalism, cv writing...all aimed to help the young adults find work and/or enter into university
- Helping the children enroll in the Turkish school system and providing support with tutoring, homework, and parent/teacher relations.
- Turkish for women
- Frequent free cultural events such as art exhibition, concerts and poetry readings
- Journal project with young adults- boys and girls
We have close to 15 people coming to each of our classes and have 40 classes a week. We are also supporting families with whatever needs they have
We are also providing arabic classes to whoever is interested.
Check here the video of our Indigo campaign
Main figures & Metrics
| # Classes by week | Avg # of attendees by week | Amount of funds raised (TL) | |
| 2015 | 40 | 300 | 300.000 |
Source of funds
All our funds are coming from our fundraising effort and are mainly provided by individual donation (in cash or in kind). We do have some regular assistance from Christian charity in the USA and in Lebanon, by a small swedish NGO and our Indigogo campains.
20% is going to food and supply, around 25% for our rent and the rest to support the children/families.