| Short profile: | Tepebaşı District Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation was founded in January 2009.
Tepebaşı Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundation supported the uninsured, poor, dependent, orphan, aged and disabled citizens, as well as fulfilling the social responsibilities of the state with opportunities for unemployed and uneducated citizens, by giving occupational employment-oriented trainings.
In the same way our foundation supports citizens of the Turkish Republic, we support people who cannot utilize the protection of their home countries and people who are exposed to persecution or are afraid of persecution because of their race, religion, citizenship, membership of a particular social group or political opinions.
Recently, for various reasons, the numbers of people who have to leave their home countries increase every day. In our country, more than 25 thousand asylum seekers are reported. Turkey doesn’t provide the asylum seekers, who are not from Europe, the right to settle on a long term basis, but give them temporary status and rights of an asylum seeker. The majority of the asylum seekers, who try to handle various problems such as accommodation, health, language, cultural differences live in the central regions of Turkey.
Asylum seekers - who don’t have financial support from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have troubles finding a job and have to pay resident fee to have temporary asylum seeker status – they sustain their lives with only the help from the social solidarity funds.
Our association help more than 800 refugees and asylum seekers in Turkey with food, fuel, accommodation, education and health. Also we run projects to help refugees and asylum seekers with adaptation, language, cultural differences and social exclusion.
Our association - which serves our domestic citizens with language, religion, race discrimination – values cultural, sportive and educational activities for our refugee and asylum seeker citizens. We prevent them from feeling abandoned and lonely during the time they stay in our country.
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