Every year, April through October, thousands of seasonal agricultural workers are migrating to various regions of Turkey. Children who go with their families, have to live in unsafe conditions without basic facilities such as clean water, hot food and hygiene. In addition to poor living and working conditions, children in seasonal agricultural work lose a third of their school year, and many have to drop out of school altogether.

FROM 720,000 CHILD LABORERS IN TURKEY, 30.8% ARE WORKING IN AGRICULTURE

IN 5-14 AGE GROUP, 64.1% OF CHILDREN WORK IN AGRICULTURE

THE RATE OF DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL INCREASES FROM CHILDHOOD TO YOUTH!

*TÜİK, 2019

OUR WORKS IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS!

2014
Our journey started in Düzce with "In A Nutshell" project! We visited houses, tents, barracks; we knocked on doors and said "Children belong in our summer schools, not in fields.". We have worked to keep children away from harvest fields and provide them an alternative to support their development.
2014
2015
Families, teachers, muhtars, garden owners, agricultural business intermediaries, public and private sectors... We said "Everyone is part of the solution" and we proceeded together!
2015
2016
It was a long journey for the children, from their homes to the cities where the harvests started; cotton, onion, apple, hazelnut ... This time we were welcoming them in more cities; We were with them in Düzce, Sakarya and Ordu.
2016
2017
We said "If only children never had to leave where they live."; we went to Şanlıurfa, one of the cities with most immigrants . We worked to support children's education and wanted them to learn while having fun. Most of all, we produced solutions for youth employment by preventing school drop outs.
2017
2018
We published awareness films and documents with our field experience, and offered suggestions and contributions to national and international committees.
2018
2019
By including Syrian refugees in seasonal agriculture, we started our work in Eskişehir.
2019
2020
We continue to take project and resource development steps for more inclusive and sustainable works. We are working for the best interests of children to improve the conditions that are getting harder due to the pandemic.
2020

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