About · Aims and work
Five aims, thirteen years.
The charter lists five aims. Next to each we have written what was done — and what was not. Figures are the confirmed ones; the rest are marked.
Aim — What was done
| Aim in the charter | What was done |
|---|---|
| 1. Reforestation | First site from the Regional Forestry Directorate in 2016; today four memorial forests (2015, 2016, 2017, 2020). The 2020 forest alone: 12,000 saplings on 6 hectares. Reforestation → |
| 2. Supporting students' education | Scholarships: ten years since 2014, from 21 to 60 students; 40 in 2023–24. Scholarship programme → Classes: maths and science from January to May 2014 as an official Public Education Centre course (16 students, teacher Mustafa Sarıhan); a 2014 summer school; Design & Skills Workshops with the district governorate in 2021, with robotics and coding kits. Computers: donated to Çardak High School's language classroom, 2021. Classrooms: not built. |
| 3. Collecting aid after natural disasters | No record on this site. |
| 4. Treatment rooms and equipment for hospitals | Not done. |
| 5. Building and sustaining educational institutions | No school was built; on the "sustaining" side there are the computers for Çardak High School and the joint classes with the Public Education Centre. |
What was left out of the charter
The first draft of 17 June 2013 had three more items: circumcisions for children of families in need, medicine for patients without insurance, a school for a village. At the founding meeting the list was cut to five; circumcisions and medicine went, the school stayed as "building and sustaining educational institutions".
Beyond the aims
- The Çardak history book — A History of Çardak in the Light of Archive Documents (Muzaffer Çetin – İbrahim İmamoğlu), 2023; presented at the Denizli Book Fair. Çardak →
- Çardak Middle School class of 1965 reunion — 50th anniversary, 2018, Kuşadası.
- "Çardak Is Everywhere" — photographs sent by townsfolk from across Turkey and abroad. Gallery →
- Aegean Associations Union membership, December 2014.
The first classes
