Welcome To DayMer
Day-Mer was
established in 1989 to work with and on behalf of Turkish and
Kurdish people living and working in London, to enable them to
address their problems and promote their cultural, economic,
social and democratic rights.
Day-Mer aims
to:
provide quality controlled relevant direct services to the
community; enable refugees to reach their full potential; ensure
the service is accessible to all; constantly respond to the
changing needs of the community; encourage integration with the
local community; increase understanding in the wider community
about refugees; develop co-operation between Refugee Community
Organisations
Objectives:
Provide a drop-in centre with direct services 5 days per week
10.00am - 7.00pm; Provide well-trained staff, available when
needed, offering a range of services; Provide clear written
information about services; Provide a wide range of resources
for users; Provide clear monitoring and evaluation of services
that influence service provision; Provide effective management
of the centre; Develop links with other voluntary agencies and
service providers.
Day-Mer provides a
comprehensive advice and welfare service, business advice
service, co-educators to secondary schools and other educational
services such as centre based supplementary school sessions and
ESOL lessons, a diverse youth group and services, sports club,
women’s outreach service and a range of cultural activities.
Added to these are the Drugs Awareness project funded by the
local DAT and the recycling project supported by the local
authority. In the course of last year, Day-Mer completed a 2
year long ERF Open Learning Centre project based in the centre
and provided co-educators to primary schools under the SRB
Woodberry Down programme. Funding received from Hackney College
to run two Turkish literacy classes for women also came to an
end in the course of last year.
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Day-Mer (Turkish and Kurdish Community Solidarity
Centre) is a community organisation established in 1989 to work with
and on behalf of Turkish and Kurdish people living and working in
London, to enable them to address their problems and promote their
cultural, economic, social and democratic rights. Since its
establishment, Day-Mer has concentrated and based the emphasis of
its work especially on issues the Turkish and Kurdish people
encounter as people who live and work in London.
In the early period of its establishment, when
the largest influx of Turkish and Kurdish people to Britain was
taking place, Day-Mer concentrated on the problems of Turkish and
Kurdish people of immigration, settlement and formation as an ethnic
community. As well as providing the community with services, which
are still ongoing, aimed at their concrete problems, it brought
significant sections of the community together to discuss and act
upon its problems and needs related to being an ethnic community and
the issue of the relationship with the rest of the society, through
the range of cultural and social activities provided. In doing this,
through the wide of range of means and mediums used over the years
such as centre based services, information and awareness sessions,
health, education, human rights and pro-democracy campaigns, regular
arts and culture activity and festivals, the work of its local
groups, youth and women’s commissions and its football federation,
Day-Mer always aimed
the empowerment of the community as an organised entity, aware of
its problems, needs and social and democratic rights as well as
emphasising the need for a harmonious interaction between the
Turkish and Kurdish community and the rest of the society and the
creation of conditions for the migrant communities and the rest of
the society to work and live together.
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