ACEV - Mother-Child Education Foundation

Mission

The Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) is a Turkish NGO founded in 1993 with a mission to empower people through family-based education. AÇEV’s main focus area is early childhood education and family literacy programs that aim to provide equal opportunity in education to all by targeting preschool children and their families in disadvantaged communities.

Programs

Mother Child Education Program a home-based ECE and parent program Mother Support Program program for mothers of 3-9 years old Father Support Program program for fathers of 2-10 year olds Preschool Parent Child Program which targets both children attending state run preschools and their parents “Summer Preschools” summer preschool program for most “at risk” group Women's Empowerment and Integrated Literacy Program program for women to impart basic literacy skills

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Empower 1,500 Women through Literacy in Turkey

Preschool Education for Poorest Regions of Turkey

Personnel Overview

Hilal Kuscul - Senior Project Coordinator
Ms. Kuscul is the senior coordinator for ACEV's "Reducing Gender Disparity in Education" project. worked as a program coordinator for the Women's Literacy Program where she developed program materials and training seminars, designed supervision systems and coordinated all program activities related to implementation.

Meltem Canturk - Meltem Canturk is the project coordinator for AÇEV
Meltem Canturk is the project coordinator for AÇEV’s Women’s Empowerment and Functional Literacy program, where she is in charge of the coordination of all program activities.

Prof Aydin Durgunoglu - Academic Consultant/Program Developer
rof. and Dept Chair of Psychology Dept at University of Minnesota Duluth Research project areas: • Literacy development in adults and in children • Literacy development in first and/or second languages • Bilingualism • Knowledge acquisition

Personnel Statistics

Derya Akalin,
General Manager
Founded in 1993
Employees: 113
Volunteers: 2510