Dear Imece Volunteer, here you find all the basic information you need​​about our work.

Imece Inisiyatifi is a small association, originally founded as a initiative in 2014 with the aim to support
underprivileged locals who are impacted by the social, economic, and political consequences of capitalism.
Nowadays, we have several projects ongoing.

Two days a week we leave Cesme for activities in Izmir province. The mobile education project aims for
teaching Turkish and the latin alphabet as well as the basics in maths to refugee children in inofficial camp
areas. ​Volunteers give a hand to the teachers, play with the children and try to make sure the kids stay
within their age group. But the main job is to play with the children :) Furthermore, we distribute hygiene
and baby supplies to those refugee families with the most need. ​The volunteers´ job here is to help
distributing the goods to the families.

Currently, we are building up our ​Imece Education Village for 4 days a week on a piece of land in Cesme
with a size of around 20 000 m2. We will offer courses for refugee women and children. The topics we will
teach are Turkish language, handcrafts, information about legal issues concerning refugees in Turkey and
other topics. ​The volunteers´ job here is to help building the volunteers´houses and to help in agriculture
(weeding, planting, watering the plants etc) and helping out to the trainers about the children and their
safety. ​We are already living in the village and also you will stay there, if you do not want to stay in a hotel.
It is part of our philosophy that together with everyone, whether staying long-term or short-term, we will
create the village as place where it is nice to live.

If you would like to volunteer with us please send us a short CV (1-2 pages as Word-doc or PDF) stating your
profession or skills and if, where and how long you worked with refugees before, and where you are
planning to go after volunteering with us. You can send it per e-mail to
contact@imeceinisiyatifidernegi.com . ​You can also state the period in which you are able to come, it
should be no less than 1 week,​the longer the more helpful for us.

Imece policy

1. We welcome new volunteers only on thursdays and introduce them to our work. Please arrange your
arrival dates according to this schedule and ​please send a screenshot of your ticket to Elif.
2. Imece Village is a place to live and a safe space. ​We are also working on a ​child safeguarding policy
and expecting from volunteers to have general knowledge about the topics.
3. We ask you to pay ​€ 5 a day ​for accommodation and consumption of water, electricity and food. The
money will be collected of you by ​Berit.​
4. Alcohol ​is not allowed on any of the Imece premises. Also, alcohol consumption outside the Imece
premises is ​only tolerated the nights before off days​. ​Smoking is restricted to the designated area
next to the kitchen.
5. Ladies and gents sleep in separate rooms. The rooms are shared and the toilets are outside of the
rooms.
6. As we are trying to “​do no harm​” we are using eco-friendly hygiene products in the village. We will
provide it to you, but you are also welcome to bring your own eco-friendly products.
7. While spending time with refugees clothing should always be appropriate, no matter how hot it is, i.e.
the legs should be covered down to the knees and, for ladies, please no belly free tops or tops which
show much decollete.
8. Imece lives from the exchange of ideas and suggestions everybody makes, and there will be many
opportunities to talk about ideas. On the field, however, ​while working, please listen to the Imece
staff and follow to what they ask you to do​. We have more than 2 years of experience in this field and
in certain situations might have more factors in mind than you can overlook in a few weeks. Please

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 respect that.
9. The working hours can get long on some days, but you will regularly have ​one day off per week
together with the rest of the crew.
10. Please make sure to clean after you​, be it tools in the village, the plates and cuttlery you use or in the
van after one days´ trip.
11. Imece will decide in which of the projects you are most suitable and needed, altough we will try to
make sure you get to see all of our projects.
12. There will be an informative session when you arrive to the village, any earlier questions are also
welcome.

Address of the Imece Headquarter (café):

16 Eylül Mahallesi 3052 sokak no: 22, 35930 Cesme

Google link:
https://goo.gl/maps/MtzQn1EQd5B2

The best way to come to Cesme is to fly to İstanbul or Ankara and then have a flight to İzmir. From Izmir
airport you can take a Havas bus to Cesme for 26 TL (1 hour drive). The Havas bus stop is when you exit the
terminal at your right hand side.
http://www.havas.net/en/OurServices/BusServicesAndCarParkingFacilities/Pages/default.aspx

Contacts
Mazhar:​+90 506 507 6993
Elif:​+90 555 712 84 58

As we finance ourselves entirely through donations and even our full-time staff earns no money,
donations are not mandatory but always welcome.

Thank you for volunteering with us!​:)

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