Hayat Sende Derneği

Hayat Sende Association was founded by a group of idealist careleavers in 2007, in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. Academy’s target group is children and youngsters under legal protection and care leavers. Academy’s main strategies are: ● to increase human resources quality of children and youngsters under legal protection to integrate them into life with equal and strong footing ● to combat negative discrimination affecting these children and youngsters in the media and public ● to defend their rights via lobbying and advocacy efforts. With its works, the Academy was selected as the Turkey’s Changemakers twice in Turkey. It has also been awarded with the Young Social Entrepreneurship Awards four times. The Academy’s founder was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the JCI, the leading youngsters organization in the world. The Academy is also supported by the leading social entrepreneurship network in the world, Ashoka Foundation. Hayat Sende’s founder is also selected one of 24 outstanding young leaders of Asia and supported by Asia21 Society.