June & July Issue of the Monthly Bulletin has been released!

With your support, we were able to provide food, baby diapers, and baby formula in 605 households who live in deep poverty and work in day labor without insurance.

May Issue of the Monthly Bulletin has been released!

In May, with your support, we delivered groceries, diapers and baby food to 1,337 people in 386 households who live in deep poverty and work without security in their daily job. Bills from 21 households with a total value of 4275.84 TL were paid.

‘Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ is available in Turkish now!

The document prepared by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been translated into Turkish by Deep Poverty Network with the support of Etkiniz EU Programme. The Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights are the first global policy guidelines focused specifically on the human rights of people living in poverty. They are... 

We will continue to extend solidarity to those living in deep poverty, in a non-discriminatory manner.Throughout this process, we believe it is important that all social aid provided by the government, local authorities or NGOs be rendered in a way that respects human dignity, with the understanding that restrictions on access to basic needs are... 

Campaign: Our Agenda for April is Education and Play Rights

With our campaign named “Our Agenda for April is Education and Play Rights”, we aim to provide stationery and play materials for 100 children who live in poverty in order to support their access to education and play rights. Every support that you provide to this campaign will allow children who live in poverty to... 

According to Müzik-Sen data, at least 100 musicians have committed suicide since the beginning of the pandemic.

As Deep Poverty Network, with Istanbul Music and Performing Artists Association, we met with over 100 performing artists (from violin, keyboard, org, piano, bağlama, guitar, drums, drum, darbuka, zurna, ney, tambourine players to soloists, illusionists, electricians, and actors) who cannot work over a year due to the pandemic. These people cannot receive regular support and... 

We Will Not Give Up Istanbul Convention

 We Will Not Give Up because, When women who struggle with poverty are subject to gender-based violence, the inequality becomes stratified and the women become subject to multi-faceted discrimination. Thus, they cannot access justice and protection. Istanbul Convention indiscriminately protects everyone especially women, children, and LGBTİ+ individuals from gender-based discrimination and violence.

Campaign: Our Agenda is Female Poverty

As Deep Poverty Network, we observe that conditions generated by gender inequality make women carry the burden of poverty more heavily. Therefore, we would like to draw attention to the unsustainable conditions of deepening poverty for women. With the “Our Agenda is Female Poverty” campaign, we aim to provide support to women struggling with deep... 

Deep Poverty Network: A Successful Solidarity Model For Fighting Poverty

In our interview with Derya Kap from Civil Pages, we explained what kind of a solidarity model we created for fighting poverty. Read the interview here.

Call to Public Institutions and Local Governments: Urgent Action Plan for Individuals Experiencing Deep Poverty

This informative annotation involves proposals and urgent action precautions that need to be taken for street animals, households and individuals (the homeless, single parents, students, disabled, elderly, children, refugees, unemployed, small businesses, street vendors, musicians, paper collectors, flower sellers) who have become poorer in the Covid-19 process, took the heaviest burden, and face the dangers...