Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk – İngiliz Derneği
THE ANGLO TURKISH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
P.K. 627 GIRNE – KKTC PO BOX 627 KYRENIA – MERSIN 10 TURKEY
www.angloturkishassociation.com treasurer.ata.trnc@gmail.com
ATA Special causes 2024
Our focus in 2024 is a step up from previous years as we are now in receipt of significantly larger monetary inflows both in terms of sponsorship and donations from members. On that basis we propose to direct our main activities as follows:
Lefkoşa Ҫaǧlayan Ҫocuk Yuvası. This is a home that cares for children who for various reasons cannot be cared for by parents or other family members e.g. ill health of parents, unsuitable home conditions, carer parent remarrying, abuse etc. These children obviously find it difficult to easily integrate into society. 2023 saw us refit bathrooms, toilets, washing areas and bedrooms as well as donating goods and 2 individual presents per child at Christmas. This year will see a continuing relationship and expenditure on repairing a large number of settees and chairs that the children use in the common areas that are badly worn.
Lefkoşa Special Needs school. This is a Ministry of Education run school that looks after 80 children with special needs, who then return home in the evenings. There is one main playground where all the children go many times a day which is uncovered. The result of this is when it is either raining or very hot the playground cannot be properly utilised. We have established that a metal framed roof 14m x 10m would greatly enhance the facility to one that is usable all year round to great benefit of the children and teachers.
Girne Special Needs school. This is also a Ministry of Education run school which looks after 64 children with special needs. This differs quite significantly form the Lefkoşa equivalent as it is in an ex-Red Cross building that is far from ideal in terms of layout with lots of small rooms making logistics much harder than normal. The school has identified three projects that would greatly enhance the environment for the children as follows:
* Small outdoor basketball court for the older children who are regularly bumping into the younger children and causing distress in the one outdoor playground. The new court would be approximately 12m x 10m and adjacent to the playground but allow segregation of the children which is one of the main aims.Technology room (like a chemistry laboratory) to be equipped such that products can be made on site for learning purposes and then sold to the public to help raise funds for the school. These skills could also be used when the children leave the school at age 18 in large or small scale production lines. Products are items such as candles, cologne spray, silicon dishes etc
* Sensory room. This would be a new construction rather than using existing infrastructure and would be particularly aimed at autistic children where calming is often required. An example of such a facility has been seen at the Arno Fuchs School in Berlin.
* Lefkoşa Orthopaedic Association. This is an organisation run entirely from donations from individuals, companies and associations. It provides mobility aids to individuals in TRNC who needs them free of charge. This includes items such as wheelchairs, walking frames and walking sticks etc. In addition, they make prosthetic limbs from scratch to individually fit an individual who may have such a need following an incident and additionally there are 3 well equipped rooms where fully qualified physiotherapists provide their services for a fraction of normal charge-out rates. We have a history of supporting this organisation through the bottle top collection scheme which provides enough funds to purchase about 5 wheelchairs a year. However, the association actually donates between 3 and 4 wheelchairs a week on average at an average cost of 125 US Dollars each.
We propose to fund as many of these projects as possible by (i) raising funds and (ii) working in tandem with sponsor organisations who we would promote as part of this initiative.
We will of course also consider smaller projects during the year that meet our criteria for help.
Any ideas or help you are able to give will be greatly appreciated. In this regard, please speak in the first instance to the ATA Treasurer, Tim Morgan,
on: 0533 864 9192 or email: treasurer.ata.trnc@gmail.com
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