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Turkey launches İyilik Var volunteering platform
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Turkey launch of launches İyilik Var volunteering platform
The Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services announced plans to launch has launched ‘İyilik Var’, Var’ (There is Goodness), a digital volunteering platform intended designed to increase foster social solidarity and sustain expand volunteer contributions to social services. The initiative was designed initiative, which includes a website and mobile application, aims to connect reach 86 million citizens across 81 provinces by connecting individual and corporate volunteers with specific needs identified by provincial directorates, targeting directorates. Targeting demographics such as youth in residential care, the elderly, women, and individuals with disabilities. The platform, which includes a website and mobile application, officially launched in Istanbul. A central feature is disabilities, the platform features ‘İyilik Kapısı’ (Gate of Kindness), which Kindness). This component integrates tradespeople and freelancers—such as freelancers—including dentists, tailors, and barbers—into the volunteering ecosystem. ecosystem to offer expertise and services to those in need. At the launch event in Istanbul, attended by Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş stated and other high-profile officials, Necmeddin Bilal Erdoğan, Board Chairman of the project aims İlim Yayma Foundation, emphasized the importance of institutionalizing kindness. Erdoğan stated that as ‘evil becomes more prominent through various media,’ there is a pressing need to reach 86 million citizens and supports ‘advertise’ goodness, suggesting Turkey could serve as a social state global model by digitizing utilizing its cultural heritage to promote compassion through digital and expanding volunteering efforts across 81 provinces. institutional efforts.
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