Press Centre: Girls’ Education
UNICEF Turkey Press Releases on Girls’ Education:
Photograph by Rana Mullan
© UNICEF Turkey 2004
08 May 2008: The nation–wide telethon broadcast on the 23rd of April raised more than one million lira to fund more pre–schools in the most needy areas of Turkey. Running under the We’re Adding Pre–schools! slogan, the telethon campaign is another remarkable result of the successful partnership between the Turkish National Committee for UNICEF and the national broadcaster NTV.
18 April 2008 (1): The More Schools! campaign was launched last year by the Turkish National Committee for UNICEF and NTV. This year on April 23rd NTV and the Turkish National Committee for UNICEF will add a new stage to the campaign with full–day telethon supported by a host of surprise guests. The aim is raise funds to set up new preschools in 13 provinces. Donations will be accepted via the Turkish National Committee for UNICEF, SMS and live phone–ins to NTV on special hotlines that will run throughout the broadcast.
18 April 2008 (2): As the Turkish National Committee for UNICEF we have made many important contributions to the education system in Turkey, especially in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of chidren who were not previously attending school are enrolled in the education system now thanks to the Haydi Kızlar Okula! girls’ education campaign. During last year’s More Schools! campaign, which we launched with the NTV channel, we promised to build 100 classrooms in the most needy regions of Turkey. Happily, we have exceeded that goal with the current total of 150 classrooms.
08 May 2007 The joint UNICEF–NTV More Schools! campaign has already surpassed the target of 100 new classrooms. The total of contributions raised through SMS and direct donations so far is enough to build 121 new prefabricated classrooms.
12 April 2007 Turkey is in urgent need of new school buildings. UNICEF believes that prefabricated classes would be the quickest and cheapest way and the NTV broadcast channel supports this plan.
13 July 2006 (2) Best friends Nergiz (12) and Hanım (13) have come to school to meet us, willingly interrupting their summer break.
13 May 2005: UNICEF’s Regional Director congratulates Milliyet for the right emphasis in its ‘Daddy send me to school’ campaign.
12 May 2005 (1): UNICEF’s latest Progress for Children report shows the world’s impressive gains towards gender parity in primary education.
12 May 2005 (2): Girls’ education offers the best return on state investment, says the latest Progress for Children report from UNICEF.
26 April 2005: Journalist, Lynn Levine writes about her experience on the road with the Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign for girls’ education.
4 April 2005: The Haydi Kızlar Okula! and 100% Support for Education campaigns have begun to yield results. Since 2003, 9,294 new classrooms have been phased-in and thousands of schools have been restored.
4 September 2004: Head of Religious Affairs, Ali Bardakoğlu calls for imams to include the issue of girls’ education in their sermons.
3 September 2004: The Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign to increase enrolment rates for girls in primary education gains momentum in the eastern and south-eastern regions.
24 August 2004: Governor Temel Koçaklar underlined the success achieved in getting girls into school in Mardin through the Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign.
21 August 2004 (1): In a survey launched under the UNICEF campaign to support girls’ education, it was found that 4,068 girls in İzmir and its vicinity were not enrolled at school for various reasons.
21 August 2004 (2): The Governorate of İzmir launched a campaign to ensure girls’ primary school enrolment by changing the attitude of their parents.
19 August 2004: Twenty-five committed teachers in Bingöl went without their summer holidays in order to meet parents who were not sending their daughters to school and help change their minds.
1 July 2004: Sabah newspaper reports from the province of Siirt where both the education system and the economy are is undergoing revolutionary changes.
2 June 2004 (1): The Haydi Kızlar Okula! campaign was nothing short of a fortunate event for the children of the Toprak family in Altındağ who were out of school for lack of funds.
(Sabah Newspaper)
2 June 2004 (2): Minister of Education, Dr Hüseyin Çelik says that ‘positive discrimination’ in favour of females is necessary in the field of education in order to close the existing gap.
(Posta Newspaper)
1 June 2004 (1): Haydi Kızlar Okula! -- UNICEF and the Ministry of National Education’s campaign to achieve gender parity in primary education -- enters the second phase with a declaration of support from the Governors of the thirty-three provinces where the campaign is currently active.
1 June 2004 (2): Mrs Emine Erdoğan: “Let’s fight the ignorance that sees women as second class citizens!”
(Zaman Newspaper)
1 June 2004 (3): Four female teachers in Van are today no less than ‘angels’ in the eyes of the village they are serving and the children they are teaching.
(Sabah Newspaper)
17 December 2003: UNICEF’s annual report The State of the World’s Children 2004 Girls, Education and Development was introduced to the press on December 16th.
7 October 2003 (2): UNICEF and FIFA join with children to celebrate ‘Global Children’s Football Day’.
17th June 2003 (1): Haydi Kızlar Okula! the campaign for girls’ education launched by UNICEF and The Turkish Ministry of National Education today aims to have every girl in school by 2005.
17th June 2003 (2): Statement by Carol Bellamy on the launch of the Haydi Kızlar Okula! the campaign for girls’ education.
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