Why Carma…. Here is the answer in the recent interview of Sandrine in Yabangee

C@rma scorecard

  • 59
    NGOs
  • 108
    Projects
  • 324
    volunteers
  • 1,539
    hour volunteered
  • 7
    Companies
  • 8
    CSOs featured

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çöp(m)adam el ürun imalat turizm sanat ve dis ticaret ltd şti (çöp(m)adam)

Date of foundation 2008
Internet site www.copmadam.com
Cause Empowerment, Women
For Profit or Not For Profit For Profit
Contact Tara Hopkins
Auditor Fahrettin Yildiz

Mission & Activities

 

Who Am I? I am Tara, American, I have been in Turkey since 1989, I started Ashoka Turkey, I started the civic involvment program at university level and I now livin in Ayvalik. I have set up Cöp(m)adam in 2008 as a limited company.

What aim I striving to do: empower women, give people hope, provide women with a place where they can call their own, where they feel comfortable

What do we do at Cöp(m)adam: we make mostly useful and always fun items (wallets, bags, apron, pillowcases, etc.) out of throwaway materials and offer women an opportunity to earn their first salary. The women working with us can earn between 30 up to 1.000TL/months

So far we have done

  • Worked with 400 women
  • Produced and sold 20.000 items
  • Worked with Unilever, produced for Ulker and Coca-Cola (we are in the Coca Cola Artisan catalogue)

To be able to respect the efforts of the women who worked with us  by paying them on a regular basis and continue to be an example to others, we need some financial flexibility; for that reason, we will soon launch a crowdfunding campaign. 

 

Main figures & Metrics

  # of women # of items produced and sold XX Revenues (TL) Expenses (TL)  
2013            
2014            
2015            

Source of funds

Sales to individuals, corporate orders from Coca-Cola and from time to time from other companies like Unilever, Ulker and Khiels

Board & staff

FounderTara Hopkins

Bank details

AkBank Ayvalik-Balikesir sb 308
TLTR74 0004 6003 0888 8000 82057
$TR58 0004 6003 0800 1000 102027
TR89 0004 6003 0803 6000 092810

People who have already volunteered