Within the scope of the 2022-2023 Spring Semester Community Service Practices course, various actions were taken by course lecturer Prof.Dr.Yeşim GÜLEÇ ASLAN and her students from the Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Special Education Teaching for 12 weeks to ensure that individuals has equal access to basic needs and to empower disadvantaged groups.
During this process, students volunteered to work with various NGOs. These activities included services such as packaging food, distribution of food to homeless people and cleaning the environment within the scope of the services of Çorbada Tuzun Olsun Association.
Also, students provided services such as placing books in a public library for 12 weeks in order to provide quality education and increase literacy, and assisting children in choosing books. In order to support ending discrimination in education and inclusive education, they fulfilled the tasks assigned to them (for example, helping students in their activities, supporting teachers) for individuals with special needs during 12 weeks at the Center for the Disabled. Apart from these, awareness raising activities were carried out for the benefit of the society such as preparing and distributing informative brochures and organizing seminars during times such as Autism Month and Down Syndrome Day.
Again in this process, in order to protect biodiversity and natural habitats students worked on issues such as making a food point for stray animals and feeding them regularly, feeding stray cats, taking a stray cat with eye discomfort to the relevant Animal Vaccination and Treatment Unit for treatment, meeting the needs of stray cats such as food, water and shelter, and taking mother cats and kittens to a safe environment.
Under the leadership of one of our students, blood and marrow donations were made for the Turkish Red Crescent Society, and food was distributed in the Society’s iftar tent.
