IKADA is a project company focused on EU Projects and Fundings. Recently they are running a project with ILO for the training of Syrian Refugee entrepreneurs. We agreed on working together with IKADA to announce this project to the our contacts and to collaborate on potential projects in the future.
Watan Association recently established organization, aiming to contribute employment of the refugees, similar to us. We agreed to work together with the purpose of placing more refugees to engage in registered jobs in the future.
IDEMA is an organization focused on EU funds and establishes consortiums for the projects eligible for the tenders and auctions of EU. We agreed to work together with IDEMA during the consortium projects in order to reach further available funds.
L’oreal Turkey would like to focus on providing opportunities to refugees for boosting diversity in the workplace as part of their CSR policy. They are hiring 2 new Arabic-speaking sales representatives for their brand Kiehl’s by the assistance of United Work.
Turkish Red Crescent visited UW Office in Şişli and requested information about Syrian Refugees for a search about “The supports for the Syrian Refugees”. They plan to be more active at the livelihood projects instead of directly helping them with humanitarian projects.
ING-Holland and SPARK have cooperation and run a project for the refugees who want to establish his/her own business especially at the border cities. Spark is responsible for educating these entrepreneurs and ING Bank supports them financially. Ms Feride Doğan from ING Bank visited our office to discuss a possible
Turkey Correspondent of the Economist, Piotr Zalewski is working on research on the socio-economic status of Syrian Refugees in Turkey. In that respect, we have been asked our knowledge and opinion on refugee livelihoods and culture. The article is considerably fed by the sharings of UW as Mr Zalewski stated.
On 11 February 2019, International Crisis Group launched their latest report, “Protecting Vulnerable Refugees: Syrian Youth in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa” at the Swedish Consulate General. The report reflects the main risks that young Syrian refugees are exposed to in Şanlıurfa and what measures to cope with the matter. Diplomats, journalists, academicians
We had a meeting with Lasagrada Hotel for an Arabic-speaker receptionist position.
