The Web of Deep Poverty: 2025 Solidarity Calendar

Open Space Association has prepared the 2025 Solidarity Calendar this year to increase the spirit of solidarity. Just click on the link for the calendar.

What is deep poverty?

Deep poverty is not a temporary problem of today, but a cycle that expands from generation to generation and affects the whole society. From the moment one is born into deep poverty.....

• not getting enough food
• not being able to live in a safe house,
• not getting an education,
• not being able to get treatment,
• being stigmatized and ostracized,
• not being able to dream,
• losing your voice,
• not having a choice
• not having opportunities,
• is to lose self-confidence.

What do they aim for?

• To create a society where everyone has access to basic rights such as food, shelter, education and health,
• To make visible all these problems of people living in deep poverty,
• Empowering people living in deep poverty by supporting them
• and break the cycle of poverty into which they were born,
• Demonstrate that deep poverty causes social exclusion and take actions to eliminate exclusion,
• They aim to influence politicians to take political decisions to eradicate deep poverty

What do they do?

• They provide regular grocery support, hot meal support, baby food and diaper support, periodic clothing and stationery support, medical/medical support, rent support, invoice support, scholarship support, digital support, toy/educational material, hygienic product support, furniture support and other household-specific support to people who cannot access their most basic rights due to deep poverty conditions.
• In line with the principles of solidarity, they provide social service support, legal support and employment access support.
• In line with the principle of sustainability, they provide the most reliable and detailed data on poverty in Turkey.
• Deep poverty is an issue for all of us, a cycle that can be broken with solidarity.