2018 activit y rep ort
Text Nil Delahaye, Dilek Üstünalan and Cansu Kılınçarslan Design Aysel Kazıcı
İstanbul, April 2019
Images used in infographics collected from The Noun Project Running Girl - Samy Menai • Running - Samy Menai • Dancer - Moriah Rich • Breakdancing - Jasmine Jones • Dance - Erin Gillaspy • Boxing - Adrien Coquet • Guitar - Adrien Coquet • Tree - Guilherme Furtado • Juggler - Isabel Martínez Isabel • Fairy tale - Laymik • Ticket Theatre - Thomas Helbig • Photograph - Chabib Ali Machbubi • Clap - Thilly Coppelmans • Persona - Daryl Vandemont • Woman - Daryl Vandemont • Cauldron - AomAm • Witch Hat - Nathaniel Blackburn • Potion by Sunbzy • Wizard wand - ProSymbols
Table of contents • About BoMoVu 4 What is BoMovu? 5 Acting principles 6 Who are we? 7 BoMoVu’s foreword 9
• Our works 10 Reconciliation Games 11 Your Movement is Free 16 Critical Sports 19 Other activities 22
• Supporters of BoMoVu in 2018 26 • Financial report 28
About BoMoVu
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What is BoMovu? BoMoVu is an association that develops programs to transform sport and body movement into social benefit and combats all kind of discriminations in sports. Thanks to our network of volunteer sport and physical activity practitioners, we come together with various groups such as children, refugees or women, and contribute to their social empowerment in line with their needs. As BoMoVu, we believe that sports programs designed towards social empowerment can contribute to social justice and cater essential life skills to each person. We target the following thematic areas with the aim of supporting the access to rights: Bodily rights (right to access to sports, physical integrity, right to movement) Fight against discriminations (ethnic and gender based)
Social empowerment (to take part in education, work, social life)
Our vision To defend the right to movement through raising solidarity amongst all with a passion for physical activities.
Our mission To defend everyone’s access to sports and their physical rights for social empowerment.
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Acting principles Participatory action BoMoVu is an NGO set up with the aim to provide necessary knowledge and support for sports practitioners and performing artists who want to engage in social work with non-lucrative motivations. For this reason, participation and self-initiative is encouraged. BoMoVu is here to help practitioners elaborate a social program with their sport or art and to bridge them with target communities. People are encouraged to show self-determination for the role they want to play in the society, BoMoVu is a platform for them.
There is no help without help The aim of BoMoVu is to reach out to “vulnerable groups”. However, the “aid” or “humanitarian work” performed through BoMoVu should beware of victimizing the populations served. Well-being is not a tangible value that can be set for good in any person. It is a process that sources from the beneficiary herself; the worker only serves as a push-factor for the discovery of the potential of happiness and joy that each human beholds inherently. On the same note, together with being extremely rewarding, the worker gets satisfaction from the recognition of sharing a passion and skills only herself is able to transmit. For this, both sides are helping each other. Knowledge sharing BoMoVu is a network that avails its members to benefit from all the knowledge shared inside it. The effort is put on creating bridges between people that need each other, and to render this into a pool of active participants. People, groups, and organizations who want to join this pool are offering their knowledge and skills, as much as they feed from it.
Communication and respect As people come together to work, all forms of frustration and conflict should be discussed respectfully, each party having strictly equal positions regardless of age, gender, orientation, race, religion, or political view. Games of power, hierarchy, and different treatment should be annihilated for the sake of a healthy working relationship. If one or several members of BoMoVu feel offended or oppressed by the speech or behaviour of another, this matter should be disclosed and discussed in group. Appreciation Each work is an effort that deserves appreciation and thanking. When working together with BoMoVu, we value thanking and acknowledging all people who participate in the building of something that becomes the achievement of a team, and of an idea too.
Autonomy The political or cultural backgrounds of our beneficiaries do not represent criteria for service providing. BoMoVu does not carry political values and the work performed through BoMoVu can not have a political content. Irrespective of any political pressures, we want to remain transparent and honest about the interests of our target population.
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Who we are? As from the third Ordinary General Assembly gathered on November 11th 2018 Permanent members of the direction board • Nil Lea Delahaye Kılıç • Eleni Diker • Nazlı Durak • Cansu Kılınçarslan Akyol • İlknur Hacısoftaoğlu Közleme
• Gözde Türkkan • Emre Çetin Gürer • Dilek Üstünalan • Talin Diker • Sanem Su Avcı
Permanent members to the auditing board • Ferhat Kılıç • Aslı Dürüst • Selçuk Açıkgöz
Auxiliaries to the direction board
Auxiliaries to the auditing board • Ceren Doğan • Fatih Gençkal • Furat Buzğan
Program coordinators • Alçay Çelik (former worker) • Burcu Ayan
• Cansu Kılınçarslan • Hayk Hakobyan (short-time Hrant Dink Foundation fellow)
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Members of the association • Akgün İlhan • Aslı Ersoy Denizci • Ayşe Merve Kamacı • Aysun Koca • Burcu Ayan • Burcu Becermen • Burcu Yılmaz
• Burkal Efe Sakızlıoğlu • Ceyda Özdemir Ertan • Dilek Üstünalan • Ferdi Kibar • Fikret Levent Şensever • Hamit Levent Evci • Pınar Özer
• Ramazan Cem Avcı
• Saadet Başak Ülgen • Selen Müldür
• Umut Karapeçe • Yağmur Pal
• Zeyneb Gültekin
Solidarity network • Anıl Berkay Vardıoğlu • Aslı Polatdemir • Aykut Alakoç • Baran Uçal • Başak Gürer • Bedran Eşer • Begüm İltüzer • Berivan Saydut • Beyza Öztürk • Çağıl Kayan Widegren • Canan Abeş • Candan Candan • Cansu Balcı • Cebrail Ürtekin • Damla Sezikli • Dilara Çelik • Enzo İkah • Erdinç Habip
• Filiz Türüt • Fırat Akman • Gevher Gündüz • Gizem Balcı • Göker Yıldız • Gülcan Küçük • Haki Turan • Hasan Kızıllar • Helin Kılıç • Heval Elçi • Hüseyin Gökçen • Hüseyin Korkma • İlayda Önal • Kudret Çobanlı • Ladin Avşar • Lider Hepgenç • Medya Güler • Merve Ceyhan
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• Merve Korkmaz • Merve Manap
• Muhammet Ali Akkoyun • Muhsin Üstüner • Özay Topal
• Pelin Zenginobuz • Renk Koçtürk
• Sadiye Kılıç Elik • Sarah Lecolle • Selma Üner • Şinda Barış • Şule Gürle
• Suzan Ertuğrul • Tamar Nalcı
• Tayfun Demircan • Tuğçe Ok
• Zeynep Köprülü
BoMoVu’s Foreword We continue our journey since the day we came together with similar concerns about the discriminatory attitudes inside sports or movement, the borders that are drawn between us and our passions, or the social pressure of the stereotypes we reproduce through the movement of our own bodies. We experience walking together on this road of questioning the body and the movement. Together, we question the reasons that drive us to this road, the direction we want to take; step by step we discover together the rights linked to our bodies and movements; we draw together the route towards claiming these rights. Reckoning our privileges as well as our deprivations, we seek for the ways to touch the discriminated social groups, with the hope to cross our roads and walk together. Inside the very bodily practices we engage in, starting from the very place where we step and touch each other, we believe in our power to transform the past and the future, through inhabiting and rebuilding our present .
As BoMoVu, the Association of Sports and Body Movement for Vulnerable Groups, we created a network of sports people and performers under a message of solidarity; thanks to all these people, we could have an impact on the lives of many children, women and men. Starting from the rights of the uniqueness of each body, we stress out our limbs towards the unifying power of the quest for social justice. We reached the dream we had back in May 2016, when we first founded our NGO, to open a space of our own. From that time on, everyone can come together and perform freely with the aim to find solidarity.
With our first program Reconciliation Games, we opened the doors to transform the prejudices of children living in border areas about the people on the other side of the border and the ethnic diversity inherent to their regions thanks to the liberating power of games. In 2018, we developed further the project, reaching out to regions such as Izmir, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Rize and Artvin with dissemination trainings aiming at enabling the local population to hold the tools for implementation. With Your Movement is Free program, we enabled refugees to have the access to many physical activities through our partnering community centers in Istanbul. With these trainings, we went over the culture of “aid” to reach to sincere relations of empowering each other.
Within the framework established by the Critical Sports program that questions the normative approaches and discriminatory attitudes in sports, we enabled many women to discover the power they behold, to strengthen their self esteem, and to create solidarity among each other through the Woman to Women Muay Thai trainings. Now we take new steps to enrich this program; reaching out to different types of physical activities. We organize our solidarity trainings in our new space.
Recognizing the uniqueness of each individual; we know that each contribution would enrich this struggle infinitely . We invite everyone who shares our concerns and dreams to walk with us on this road.
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Our works
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Reconciliation Games The primary goal of the Reconciliation Games is to use the freedom availed by play and games in order to improve crossborder perceptions of children. While doing so, we use traditional children games which are a component of the local cultural heritage. By taking values such as tolerance, inclusiveness, equal rights, virtue, pleasure, happiness, love and respect that are embedded in sports, we contribute to the development of a peaceful environment based on social inclusion through helping children to recognize and question their prejudices about ethnic or religious groups living in the region, identified as “other” and gender-based power relations.
This project targets children living in border regions in which the history of cities holds the traces of a broad ethnic diversity. We chose to use children’s games as tools to explore and question children’s prejudices arising from their places of residence. In this context, we have implemented the model developed in Kars and Ardahan on the border with Armenia / Georgia and in Edirne on the Greek / Bulgarian borders of Turkey. In 2018, we carried out implementations of the Reconciliation Games in the cities of İzmir and Diyarbakır. This year, we enriched the project with a Dissemination Workshop that supported people from various regions of Turkey to spread and adapt the Reconciliation Games to their own local needs, taking a step to further improve the sustainability of our impact. We went on with the dissemination through providing adapted workshops fed by oral history field researches for teachers and social workers in August-November 2018 in the region of Mardin. Lastly, we started in 2018 the Reconciliation Games in the regions of Artvin and Rize with a project that went on till February 2019. These experiences enriched our project with a sensitivity about matters of ecology and all those contributions were reflected in the content of the workshops.
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A ppl i ed met hods Oral history and alternative resources: past cultural diversity researching old games Physical memory: sensing the past with the means of games Emotional learning: learning/experiencing new emotions
Critical pedagogy: reveal the knowledge embedded in the children
R eco nci li ation Game s in 2018 3 dissemination workshops for teachers and educators:
İstanbul May
Rize November
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Mardin October
Ora l hi sto ry r es e arc hes i n 4 d i fferent r eg i ons
Mardin August
İzmir April
Artvin and Rize October
I m plem entation with childre n i n 3 d i ffe re n t re gion s Rize December
İzmir May
Diyarbakır June
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A d u lt s a n d c h i l d r e n reached out to in 2018 Number of children reached out through implementations
74 girls
68 boys
+ implementation from workshop trainees
263 girls
195 boys
R e c o n c i l i at i o n G a m e s p u b l i c at i o n s i n 2 0 1 8 Reconciliation Games in Thraces March
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Reconciliation Games Dissemination Training Manual July
Number of adults trained to Reconciliation Games method with the workshops
22
8
men
women
Number of adults reached out through oral history interviews
40 women
47 men
+ implementation from workshop trainees
29 women
35 men
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Your Movement is Free Your Movement is Free is a tool we developed to reach out to community centers serving refugees in Istanbul. With a network of sports and performing arts practitioners, refugee children and adults benefiting from services of community centers in Istanbul are offered physical activity programs to accompany their educational and psycho-social support.
With this project, we provided a total of 12 different weekly activities for communities at Ad.dar Community Center (Beyoğlu), Yusra Community Center (Fatih), and Tarlabaşı Community Center (Beyoğlu). We organized contact improvisation, body percussion, music, hip-hop, combat sport, football, creative drama, story telling, nature walks and photography activities for the children, youth and adults that get support from those centers. The project’s impact was enhanced by reflecting on day to day evaluations of the activities and capacity development and solidarity meetings among the activity facilitators. With a field research, we aimed to understand the impact of physical activities on refugees and migrants. The research focused on the effects of participation in physical and creative activities on the definition of body and space in the case of displacement; analysing the impact on bodily changes, everyday lives and social relations on both micro and macro levels. The research exposes the statements made by participants of regular physical activities who define themselves as more “happy”, “strong”, and “skilled for communication”. Besides, people attending the physical activities in a safe space tend to describe their feeling of the practice space as “home”. Moreover, a film was shot in the framework of the project by director Gökçe İnce about two of the activities of the project conducted towards Syrian and Turkish children and young adults attending the activities of football and Hip Hop with our project facilitators Baran Ucal and Göker Yıldız at Ad.dar Center and Tarlabaşı Community Center. The film tells this transmission of a passion from the point of view of the body.
Contact Improvisation activity facilitator Dilek Üstünalan also wrote an article concerning her participant observations during her activities with Syrian women and girls, analysing how the activities strengthened the “sense of home” among participants. The article was printed and published under BoMoVu Articles.
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Applied methods Solidarity: establishing a network of volunteering sports and performing arts practitioners. Body-Space relationship: supporting the process of migration Freedom of movement: rights-based work
Physical activities in community centers Ad.dar Community Center Football: Baran Uçal Hip-hop: Nazlı Durak
Contact improvisation: Dilek Üstünalan
Combat sports: Gizem Balcı ve Talin Diker Music: Enzo İkah
Yusra community center Nature walks: Story telling: Merve Ceyhan and Ladin Avşar Percussion and juggling: Hüseyin Korkma
Tarlabaşı Community Center Hip-hop: Göker Yıldız
Creative drama: Başak Gürer
Body percussion: Hasan Kızıllar Photography: Damla Sezikli
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Number of adults and children reached
8
Volunteers network
4 men
women Activity beneficiaries
169 weekly
participants (women, men, girls and boys)
P u b l i c at i o n s o f Y o u r M o v e m e n t i s Fr e e i n 2 0 1 8 fIlm Your Movement is Free Director: Gökçe İnce
Research Moving Away, Moving Within - Study about the benefits of physical and creative activities in the self-definition of body and space in the context of displacement Doğa Can Atalay
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Article Contact Improvisation and Sense of Home Dilek Üstünalan
Critical Sports With the “Critical sports” program, we defend the right to movement, through promoting a perspective that questions the establishments that create and give practice to sports, and that criticizes the power relations and imbalances that are reproduced in sports. Within this framework, we carry out weekly solidarity trainings in our association, focusing on various activities designed mainly for women and other marginalized groups. The Woman to Women Muay Thai project continued until April 2018 and has started back again in 2019.
In this project, we challenge the long lasting male-dominated tradition of Muay Thai and recognize the struggle that women have given for years in order to claim their right to movement and voice. These trainings avail a space where women can feel comfortable, not judged, and able to experience the freedom of movement and the potential of their own body spreading from their power resources. Thanks to this, Besides supporting the improvement of physical performance and skills, physical power and muscles; and making an introduction to self-defense; Woman to Women Muay Thai trainings support the development of self-confidence, self-esteem, selfcontrol, concentration, constancy and protection of mind-body balance. Woman to Women Muay Thai is open to all women and transgenders from every level of physical skill and performance. With surveys that accompany the trainings, we researched the different dimensions of carrying out a male-dominated sport from a non-sexist perspective.
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Applied methods Anti sexism: Availing a space that affirms the body of women Solidarity: Availing trainings that are reachable, free of charge and non discriminatory. Functional trainings: Targeting the development of physical skills instead of preparing to competition.
Wo r d s fro m the participants Honestly while performing this sport I never thought it was a male dominated sport. I didn’t need to think that. For this reason I am thankful.
It has been very comforting and pleasant to work in a space that would not carry aesthetic worries about my look, that encouraged me to push my limits , and where we could be among us (women to women).
Combat sports give this special satisfaction about feeling powerful, channeling the bad energy that has piled up for a while…
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O n l y f r o m J a n u ar y t i l l April 2018
16 women
attended trainings at least once
9
women attended each training in average
were made
women
trainings
7
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Other activities 8 March 2018
Every year, as BoMoVu, we announce our perspective on sexism concerning the body and sports. This year again, we advocate our right to move our bodies freely, not for the sake of becoming more “beautiful”, but because it is our body, and it is our right to move it the way we want and where we want.
9 March 2018
19 May 2018
Questioning the practices of Yoga: Among other works undertaken by Hayk Hakobyan, fellow of the Hrant Dink Foundation in our NGO, this workshop focused on the ways of practicing Yoga, as a popular practice in countries from India to the USA, and from there to Turkey.
We intervened in a panel on “Empowering Practices in the Civil Society” at the International Alternative Education Symposium, presenting our Reconciliation Games program.
August 2018 We ran workshops with BoMoVu network volunteers Baran Uçal, Başak Gürer and Hüseyin Korkma for Syrian children attending Yuva Association’s Child and Youth Center in Ümraniya district (Istanbul).
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26 September 2018 Traditional European Dances workshop: we shared various dance types from the widespread Balfolk network’s Turkey branch as a cooperation between the two organizations.
31 May 2018
“This Girl’s Story” movie was broadcasted on BluTV, telling the story of Gözde Türkkan, co-founder of BoMoVu, focusing on the Woman to Women Muay Thai experience.
1 June 2018
8 June 2018
Baghiye workshop Dance with Salah: we danced halay in this crowded workshop lead by Salah Bakr who shared his knowledge about the Baghiye dance from his home town Afrin.
Reading on the Pitch workshop on literacy through football: Amani Hanafi, the founder of Reading on the Pitch visited our organization and provided a workshop where she explained her football based method aiming at teaching reading.
18 October 2018 BoMoVu was a guest speaker at the Regional Forum of Peace and Sport which took place in Rhodes. This event gathered 350 major decision-makers and athletes in the struggle for peace through sports from all over the world and especially from the Mediterranean region to address the theme: “Societies in motion: rising up through sport”. This big event was the occasion for us to speak about our NGO’s works and especially the Reconciliation Games.
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Par t i c i p a n t s o f B o M o V u workshops
34 women
13 men
45 45 girls
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boys
People reached out as guest speaker
700 around
people
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Supporters of BoMoVu in 2018
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Organizational support
• Women Win
Project supporters
• Sivil Toplum için Destek Vakfı Çocuk Fonu (STDV)
• Sivil Düşün AB Programı
• Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
• Institut Français de Turquie (IF)
Partners in implementing projects • İzmir Karabağlar Belediyesi • ASAM- Al Farah Çocuk ve Aile Destek Merkezi • Türkiye Eğitim Gönüllüleri Vakfı Balçova şubesi • Diyarbakır’da Göç ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı • Pale Huner Kültür Sanat Evi • Mardin Gençlik ve Kültür Evi
• Ad.dar Toplum Merkezi • Yusra Toplum Merkezi • Tarlabaşı Toplum Merkezi • Çukulit Yeni Hayat Derneği • Rize Kent Gönüllüleri Derneği • Afro-Türk Derneği
Individual donations • Selçuk Açıkgöz
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Financial report
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2018 income table Organizational support 51,250.40 (Women Win)
Reconciliation Games project 120, 475.62 (STDV + IF + CFLI) Your Movement is Free project 42,409.78 (SDC) Donations
295.00
Total income
214.430,80 TRY
Exchange income
22,964.71
Money transferred from previous year 156,468.04
2018 expenses table Taxe and Social Security expenses 25,729.86 General Administrative expenses 3,216.67 Organizational expenses 50,138.11 Reconciliation Games project 97,199.82 Critical Sports project 14,890.72
Your Movement is Free project 97,285.41 288,460.59 TRY Total expense Money transferred to following year 105,402.96
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