📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We will organize this camp in cooperation with Mersin-Mezitli Municipality and this year will be the
third year of our cooperation. For more information about our partner, please visit
https://www.mezitli.bel.tr
💼 What the programme involves
In this camp, Volunteers will work at the Aged-care Center of Mersin-Mezitli Municipality for the
social needs of the elderly in elderly nursing homes and in their own homes in need of care.
Volunteers who visit the elderly and support their socialization processes will also work with them in
handicraft workshops to improve the mobility of the elderly due to aging.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will accommodate in the cute guesthouse of the Happy Life Village of the Municipality.
The guesthouse has a shower, toilet and air conditioning, and has bunk beds. Volunteers will eat their food at Down Café where individuals with Down Syndrome work. The dishes will be prepared by the chefs of Down Café. Thus, the food needs of the volunteers will be met, and the employment and socialization processes of individuals with Down Syndrome will be supported.
📍 About the location
The mezitli, a Mediterranean district, is one of the biggest and most beautiful districts of the Mersin
which is one of the Turkey's most beautiful touristic city. Mersin and Mezitli are among the provinces
and districts preferred for accommodation by the refugees from Syria who camed to Turkey due to
the civil war. In this region, which has a Mediterranean coast full of palm trees, many cultures and
communities coexist and there are many natural and cultural heritages from the Ancient Roman and
Hellenistic Periods.
"Women Producer Markets" project implemented by Mersin Mezitli Municipality, came first in the
"International Guangzhou Urban Innovation Awards" held in China. Mersin-Mezitli Municipality, the
one of the most successful municipalities of Turkey with its intense efforts on social innovation and
urban studies, hosts this camp. Mersin Mezitli Municipality, which stands out with its social and
economic supports and sustainable environmental projects that it provides to socially disadvantaged
individuals such as people with disabilities, Down syndrome, individuals with autism, children, the
elderly, asylum seekers, is one of the factors that make this region attractive.