Turkish Red Crescent Eskisehir City Branch

As the branch of a national association, Eskişehir city branch is running the programs of Turkish Red Crescent, in Eskişehir. Most of the activities are consisting of donation and first aid programs of national association. In addition, there are volunteers under the volunteer groups of women and youth departments, working for the association. Coordination and training of these volunteers are also within branch responsibility area. Besides, in disaster time, international communication and volunteer disaster management services can be called within responsibilities. As Eskisehir City Branch we are working about; Youth studies, Youth exchanges, Youth policies, Being volunteer, Entrepreneurship, Refugees, Disaster and First Aid, Human Rights, Disabled people, Disadvantageous children/women. Our organization; Youth Department was founded under Turkish Red Crescent Eskişehir City Branch, one of the 748 Red Crescent Branches in Turkey, in 2010. Our organization is the first and only youth construction that has accreditation of Evs (European Voluntary Service) and Eurodesk, Habitat Informatics and Entrepreneurship Academy and it is member organization of Executive Council of the National Youth Parliament. We are working in cooperation with students’ clubs in Anadolu and Osmangazi Universities and also students’ clubs in high schools. The aim of the organization; General aim of our organization is to increase the capacity of young people , so youth can affect the decision making mechanism. In accordance with this purpose we try to raise awareness of young people about youth studies, youth exchanges , being volunteer, youth policies, entrepreneurship , refugees, disasters and first aid. We have a youth camp where we carry out our projects. It has a capacity for accommodation of 150 people. We are working in a collaboration with UN (United Nations), EU ( European Union), Microsoft, Intel, UNDP, UNICEF, Sabancı Foundation . Our Project Background; Water Summit ( Youth Policy )- 2010 No Obstacle for Taking a Photo ( Youth Exchange)-2010 Easier Together ( Youth Exchange)- 2010 Food Safety from Youngster to Table ( Youth Exchange)- 2011 Green Together (Youth Exchange)-2012 The Right Technology for Successful Youth ( Youth Exchange) - 2013 Sustainable Disaster and First Aid Collaboration ( Youth Exchange)- 2013 Youth Customer’s Rights Summit (Youth Policy)-2014 Youth Customer’s Rights Summit (Youth Policy)-2014 Volunteer for Dialogue ( European Voluntary Service ) - Hosting -2011 You are not alone (European Voluntary Service ) – Hosting -2013 Learn Save the Life ( European Voluntary Service ) - Hosting - 2013 Learn, Save the Life II (European Voluntary Service) – Hosting -2014