EGED, one of the participants of the BİRLİKTE Corporate Support Programme, gives voice to the organisations participating in the Programme in its new series of publications. BİRLİKTE organisations working in many different fields from children's rights to the environment, women's rights to cultural rights find a place in the ‘We are Together’ series. We asked EGED member Ümmü Seyrek, who prepared the series, about the new series.
How did the ‘We are together’ series start?
During BİRLİKTE meetings, the idea of collaborating with other organisations that are beneficiaries of the Programme emerged. Together with the team, we thought that we could realise this idea with a podcast. We were going to talk about disability, introduce EGED to other organisations and get to know other organisations. This made me enthusiastic not only as a member of EGED but also as Ümmü.
The first part was with Zehra Tosun from Among Us Gender Research Association and STGM. Because EGED had recently published the Gender Equality Policy Document and I was one of those who took responsibility for the preparation of the document. We had worked with our BİRLİKTE team and Zehra Tosun while preparing EGED's Gender Equality Policy Document. With this publication, we discussed the dissemination of the Gender Equality Policy Document.
In the second part, we recorded with Özlem Işıl from Altyazı Cinema Association. In this broadcast, we talked about accessible cinema techniques. In the third episode, Pelin Erdoğan and Tolga Kızılay from the Nonviolence Education and Research Association talked about nonviolent organisation, nonviolent campaigning and well-being within organisations. In the fourth episode, our guests were Fatih Fethi Aksoy and Meliha Bilge from Çiğdemim Association. In this meeting, we talked about the disability contacts of Çiğdemim Association and EGED Environment and Zero Waste Policy Document. The fifth and so far the last episode was hosted by Nejat Taştan from the Association for Monitoring Equal Rights. In this conversation, we talked about the Association for Monitoring Equal Rights and the monitoring activities of the association on the basis of disability.
You can listen to all the episodes published so far on Spotify and Apple Podcast and on the YouTube channel of the Association of the Visually Impaired in Education as ‘Birlikte ’yiz series.
Which topics will you discuss in the coming days?
We are planning an episode with the International Children's Centre Association. I had originally planned six episodes, but we are planning to continue with new organisations. We have archived good episodes, we hope we have produced a permanent content.