| Accreditation to: |
Conference of States Parties
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| Affiliation with other organizations: |
World Disability Union (WDU), Turkey Disabled Confederation (TSK), Turkey Disabled Association (TSD), Association of Spinal Cord Paralysis (OFD), Federation of Hearing-impaired (IEF), Six Points Foundation for the Blind (AKV), World Council of Aging (DÜNYAK), Federation of Mentally Handicapped (ZEF) and Bahçesehir University (BÜ). |
| Publications: |
2010, The World Union of Handicapped organizations National Platform. |
| Purpose of the organization: |
To contribute to the educational, cultural, social, health and sportive development of people with disabilities in the world and in Turkey and to encourage the whole public to solidarity and to contribute to their solidarity and development in individual, social institutional dimensions, to assist and invest in the education, health, and social fields of people with disabilities, to raise awareness, to raise the level of education, to accelerate its development, to enlighten all segments of society on these issues by ensuring solidarity, to help them acquire professions by opening vocational courses and schools, to make all kinds of investments in the technical field to ensure their benefit, to help their education. To contribute to their education, in line with this purpose, to open and operate kindergartens, nurseries, Primary Schools, vocational and technical schools, colleges, high schools, colleges, institutes, academis and universities, to operate by participating in those already opened, to make all kinds of medical investments and research in the fields of health. To open hospitals, health centers, dispensaries, and rehabilitation centers, to participate in and operate or have operated those already opened, to establish and operate nursing homes and rest homes for the elderly and people in need of care in order to provide the treatment of disabled people by importing or developing medicine and medical technologies. |
| Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
Our delegates have attended (COSP15) |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
Our foundation founded a global and inclusive
organisation, the World Disability Union -
WDU, centred in Istanbul and Sharjah with 300
organisations from 75 countries.
We prepared the Universal Standards
Guide for Disabled People.
Our foundation officially
registered the USTAD Universal
Standards for Disability Certification
as a Turkish brand
We organised Employment-guaranteed
Training Courses and Personal
Development Courses for disabled
persons.
We initiated the creation of the World
Report on Disability Perception.
We hosted the Awareness Concert
featuring Metin Şentürk and the Cinema
Symphony Orchestra, a world first. |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Members of Board of Directors
Cihan Ekşioğlu - Türkiye
Nuray Yılmaz - Türkiye
Ruşen Muhitdinoğlu - Türkiye
Gündüz Memişoğlu - Türkiye
Mustafa Herdem - Türkiye |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
The foundation has no common members. The board of trustees consists of 26 members who elect the board of directors. |
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