Sema Foundation Activity Report Oct 18- Jun 19

SEMA FOUNDATION

9 MONTH REPORT Oct 18’ – June ‘19

INDEX • Within Our Community • Outreach • Representations

WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY

PARENTING SEMINARS

EARLY EDUCATION & MENTORSHIP

EARLY EDUCATION & MENTORSHIP

OBSERVATIONS OF IMPORTANT DAYS Our community is strongly committed to celebrate important days and holy nights with our community such as Observation of Holy Nights, Celebration of Eid as well as important days in our calendars such as mother’s day, Thanksgiving and so forth.

HOMELAND RELIEF EFFORTS Our community is deeply saddened with the human right violations occurring in Turkey and trying to raise awareness for those human right violations as much as they can. Besides, we are continuously working with human relief organizations such as Embrace Relief, Helping Hand for Relief and local organizations such as Tempe Community Action Agency and Feed My Children to reach out to the people in need.

FIRESIDE CHAT SERIES • 2 Guests • Resit Haylamaz • Emine Eroglu • 2 Day Seminars

RETREAT PROGRAMS Our committee initiated one day retreat program for SEMA members to increase social and spiritual awareness. Everyone enjoyed with grilled fish as the meal of the day!

OTHER SERVICES ADULTS CV Assistance Settlements in Conflicts Announcements New Baby Death In Need of Emergency

YOUNGSTERS • Saturday Math classes for Middle school • Wednesday Quran and Coding program • Winter program in San Francisco (15 teenagers joined) • Tucson Visits • Summer Camps for Boy and Girls (HighSchool) • Summer day camp for K to 5 grade

OUTREACH

• Avg Guest : 100 • Some Feedbacks

19 IFTAR DINNERS • 4 Iftar in Turkish Language • 4 Custom Iftar Dinners • 5 Partnership Dinners • City of Chandler • Good Tree Institute • Community Christian • Arizona Faith Network • Temple Emanuel • 2 Neighborhood Iftar • 1 Youth Council • 1 Kids Iftar • 1 Charity Iftar • 1 Eid Al Fitr Program

TEA & TALK • 4 Season l 15 Episodes • Organized 2 Tea & Talk since last 6 Month

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKFASTS CDC initiated a community breakfast for friends and community members to engage and enjoy with delicious food. Thank you for SEMA members for helping and supporting this event.

NOAH’S PUDDING Members of our community shared Noah’s pudding with neighbors and friends.

BOOK CLUB • 10 Seasons • Longest Streak for an event in Sema History • 6 times since last 6 Month

COOKING CLUB • Largest Cooking Meetup in The Valley • 5 Seasons • ~30 Meetups • Published Their FIRST COOKBOOK • New Season in August

CONVERSATION CLUB • Ladies & Gentlemen Separately • Weekly Program

LANGUAGE CENTER • Offer 4 Different Languages with Different Levels • Very Affordable

REPRESENTATION

REPRESENTATION Tempe Interfaith Fellowship • 1st Thursday of Each Month • Partner since 2010 • 23 Interfaith Organization

AFN / Next Step • 2nd Week of Each Month • Partner since 2016 • 45 Religious Organization

City of Chandler • Neighborhood Meetings Every 2 months

Arizona Muslim Alliance • Every 2 months • Unvoting Partner • 17 Mosques

FESTIVALS • Tucson Meet Yourself • Chandler Multicultural Festival • Global Village Festival • VIP Vendor for over 10 Years • Over 100.000 attendees + 600 Volunteers + More than 50 Food Vendors • Over $13000 Income

TURKISH FESTIVAL(S) Over 2000 Guests $3000 Income An Authentic way of Gathering and Refreshment

PARTNERSHIP WITH TEMPE INTERFAITH FELLOWSHIP

PARTNERSHIP WITH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

PARTNERSHIP WITH SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS CHURCH

GRANT RECEIPENT ($10,000) FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ATTENDEE @ADVANCING JUSTICE CONFERENCE

SOME EVENTS WE ATTEND

Some Church & Synagogue Events ASU Events And Many More….

YOU MAY OUTREACH ANY DAY; EVERYDAY Mon

• Conversation Group (Ladies)

Tue

• Interfaith Conversation + Next Step Meetings

Wed

• Conversation Group (Gents)

Thu

• Tempe Interfaith Fellowship Meetings

Fri Sat

• Cooking Club + Book Club

Sun

• Soccer Games + Breakfasts

SOME NUMBERS FOR 9 MONTHS

Within Community • 112 Events • Fridays Prayers • Social Events

Outreach

Representations

• 47 Events • Iftars • Outreach Events

• 36Representations at Various Occassions