Youth NGOs

Our association was established in 2010 in Sakarya as Youth and Sports Association by volunteer teachers. Our association, which was active in local activities until 2014, started to focus on international activities after this date. In this context, international studies that started with youth projects have progressed to sports projects with the increasing capacity of our association. During this period, the number of volunteers increased significantly. Initially, our volunteers consisted of high school and university students. After starting sports projects, our organization has been enriched with especially trainers, teachers and academicians. We are also members of local youth networks that enable us to reach more young people in our country.

Our target audience ranges from 7 to 70 years old. We have strong relations with stakeholders such as District Governorship, Directorate of National Education, District Youth and Sports Director in the region. For this reason, our activities are diversed as they are aimed at families, young people, children, students and people with disabilities.

Some of the work carried out by our organization:

- Basketball course for children aged 8-12,

- Bocce team for rural areas,

- Volleyball team (local)

- Beach sports organization in Karasu,

- Traditional game sharing days,

- Folk dances,

- Swimming courses for disabled children

- Concerts and street festivals

- Trekking and hiking activities,

- Meal days where traditional healthy meals are introduced,

- Environmental cleaning activities,

- Giving information about climate change,

Objectives of our organization:

- To direct young people to healthy eating alternatives and healthy life activities,

- To encourage both young people and adults to lead a physically active life through different sports activities.

- Developing alternatives that will keep young people away from harmful habits,

- Encouraging the participation of young people in decision-making processes, (We have cooperation with official institutions in our province)

- Involving not only young people but also rural people (especially women) into social life through sports activities.

- Including disabled children in social life, enabling them to be active in their social life,

- Developing attitude against hate speech among young people,

- To work for young people to do sports regularly or to do sports actively,

- Fighting with marginalization and prejudices in every field,

- To draw attention to climate change and take an active role in combating climate change,

- To direct talented children to art activities and to open new courses.

- To create an environment where young people can feel creative, free and satisfied, avoid environments full of bad examples, and support young people to discover their own talents.

- Raising awareness on gender equality and organizing some sports events (especially in rural areas) for this awareness.

As Kargenç Club, we try to create an environment that encourages young people to do sports, and we want them to gain natural eating habits, since healthy nutrition and regular exercise are important for people of all ages to lead a quality life. For this purpose, we organize beach volleyball and beach football tournaments with Karasu Municipality every year. We also encourage young people to lead a healthy life with trekking events, traditional meal days, village visits, traditional game sharing days and awareness activities. We organize offline days to prevent excessive use of technological devices (especially mobile phones), which is the main cause of inactivity.

We also carry out environmental cleaning activities in health walks on the Karasu coast. For trekking activities, we support the programs of Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality in addition to the trekking activities we do in Acarlar Longozu in Karasu. We also come together with young people and organize Sapanca Lake cleaning events. They come together with middle and high school students and provide training on environment and climate change. These efforts to raise awareness about climate are of great importance for young people to step into the environment. In addition, we are carrying out a detailed capacity building project on climate gas, climate recycling, climate forests, climate energy and climate water in the field of climate change, in partnership with organizations from Africa, South America, Asia and Europe.

In order to draw attention to gender equality, we involve women in Korfball and Bocce sports events in the countryside, especially in rural areas. For these activities, we engage with schools in rural areas and involve teachers, students and local people in these areas.

We also attach great importance to the socialization of our disabled children and organize swimming activities and courses for them. We have links with schools for children with disabilities and we organize sports and arts events for them in cooperation with teachers and schools.

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