SABANCI empowering women in Turkey

The Sabanci Foundation and the Sabanci University work closely with The United Nations Joint Program (UNJP). Their goal is to achieve long-lasting results with reference to gender equality and women’s rights.

Local Equality Action Plans:  Created by the local partners of the UNJP in the 6 program cities in Turkey which work towards ensuring the adoption of gender as a local administration philosophy.  These Action Plans are in a sense the equality roadmaps of the program cities, and include strategies that enable women to take part in local decision-making processes and improve their living conditions, in addition to local service models that bring these strategies to life. Of the total amount of USD 2.8 million in the Joint Program budget, the Sabanci Foundation provided for 1.6 million

Sabanci has already awarded 1313 high school teachers with the Purple Certificate. The goal of this training program, which takes place at Sabanci University Campus, is to:

Making gender studies the core of high school education while focusing on the sensibility of the issue, the principle of ‘learning how to learn’, and to empower and support high school teachers to develop strategies about education with gender awareness.

The “Community Service Bus” was designed collaboratively by the Sabanci Foundation and TEMSA, a leading bus and coach brand, in order to provide education, individual development and cultural services to citizens in remote areas and targets women and girls.