Quality Education
We are not leaving visually impaired children behind in terms of education, the most basic child right. We created a digital library of audiobooks versions of educational books we produced through the AVSES program we launched to enable visually impaired children access education like other children.
Visual impairment is not an obstacle to education in Avcilar.
With a view to a new generation of libraries, we launched our “Oku Avcilar” (Read Avcilar) project which had the privilege of being the first digital library of Türkiye.
Created by the Avcilar Municipality, the first digital library of Türkiye is at service of our citizens 24/7 with its immense archive free of charge.
Thanks to our “Oku Avcilar” application which carried public libraries to a digital platform, our citizens of all ages are now able to access 22,000 books under 28 categories in accordance with the Ministry of National Education from Turkish and Western classics to encyclopedias and dictionaries at all times. The application that includes thousands of e-books from nearly 300 publishers can be accessed from tablets and mobile phones.
We plan to implement “Oku Avcilar” app as an assissting tool in the schools, helping students go beyond the limitations of formal education and improve themselves in all places. Thanks to this app that can be used on tablets and mobile phones, teachers will be able to design specific libraries for their students, assign homeworks for groups and track students’ reading cards.
We also provided tablets to our children to enable them to use this application.
We taught swimming to children who cannot swim or even haven’t even been to a swimming pool in their lives in the swimming pools we set up in the schoolyards in the neighborhoods mostly occupied by low-income families. Our children received swimming lessons in groups by swimming trainers.