Social Cohesion is at the focal point of the services provided by the Refugees Association. This department, which was established to contribute to the culture of coexistence of local people and asylum seekers living in Sultanbeyli, carries out activities for social cohesion.
The main purpose of the activities we carry out as the department; It is to increase the interaction between the host society living in Sultanbeyli and the Syrians who have started to participate in the common life in this district, to enable intercultural communication and to support social cohesion, based on the belief that the differences of two peoples sharing the same place enrich us.
WHY IS SOCIAL COHESION IMPORTANT?
It is very important for the welfare of that society that the members of the society we live in or various groups live together respectfully for each other’s differences, within the framework of human rights.
STRONG COMMUNICATION
It is necessary to support the existence of a society which is in dialogue and a strong communication in order to prevent the groups that live in isolation from each other.
COOPERATION
It is very important to carry out poltics which aim to keep different parts of society in dialogue and cooperation.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Activites of Social Cohesion Unit can be counted in 7 main headlines.
Field Researches
Child Studies
Women Studies
Seminars - Interviews
Activities
Refugee Councils
Educations
Field Researches
In the civil society, field researches have a big role to carry out the activities for the needs of target groups effectively. We care the field researches which will be done before the activities very much to increase the positive social effect which the activities we build up will make. From that point of view, the study fields below are shaping the general framework which we carry out locally.
Child Studies
As being RASAS, we carry out different inclusive activities for local community and refugees in Sultanbeyli. One of important actors of those activities is children. While carrying out the Child Studies, generalizing the protector and preventive studies is important as much as solving the problem encountered.
Women Studies
Women are at home, school, work, street; in every area of life and they should be more visible. In the studies we carry out in Sultanbeyli and whose target group is women, the steps are taken for a women group which became to prefer being more visible and strong in public and private areas and also having an important role for the cohesion of two communities.
Seminars - Interviews
These are the activities which is carried out for target beneficiary groups with the people who have interests about migration and refugee area. This scope of work sometimes we inform people with experts and sometimes we share success stories and good examples.
Activities
It is like a collection of activities which is structured on themes that bring two communities together. In this way it gives an opportunity to break the prejudice between local people and refugees which is there and also possible in the future, to correct the well known mistakes. The social cohesion activities which carry out on this target are below;
Awareness Studies
Art & Culture Activities
Workshops
Sportive Activites
Meetings
Travels
Idea Club
Official Day Activities
Refugee Councils
Refugee Council become by sessions which refugees and asylum seekers can say their own emotions and thougts, detect their problems and find solutions to them, give advices or suggestions to increase the quality of RASAS’s activities and studies. It is council’s main work area to make social cohesion between local people and refugees stronger and also support common life.
Educations
1 full day dissemination educations has been prepared which includes different applications abut human rights, refugee rights, social cohesion and common life etc. for Turkish citizens who is in touch with refugees;
Employees of RASAS
Employees of Sultanbeyli Municipality
Employees of Sultanbeyli Governorship
Employees of Sultanbeyli Public Education Center
NGO employees who are working in Sultanbeyli
Managers and teachers who is working in schools that refugee children and Turkish children study in together
Volunteers of RASAS
Students who are studying in the universities which are study in the universities which are our partner.
OUR ACTIVITIES
Activities which carried out within the scope of social cohesion…
As of 2011, in the light of issues taking place in Syria, the world experienced a migration movement that it has never lived before. In the past years, Turkey hosted a massive refugee population with the migration movements from different countries and it became the country which has the biggest refugee populatin in the world after arrival of Syrian refugees.
