Sabancı Foundation Turkey’s Changemakers Program continues to work to make the stories of people who contribute to social development more visible and to raise awareness with the motto "Make a Difference, Change Lives!". Reaching 190 Changemakers in 42 different cities since 2009, the program continues to share inspirational stories of Changemakers through live broadcasts even today, when we have to face with a pandemic. Changemaker Talks, moderated by Sabancı Foundation General Manager Nevgül Bilsel Safkan, attracted great interest from the audience on Instagram. The event, which is planned to be held during the Eid, has turned into a series of conversations after great interest and demand from the audience!
The guests of the Changemaker Talks, the first of which was held on May 25, were Özlem Ceylan, the founder of the Living with Allergy Association; Tolga Öztorun, the animal rights advocate and the founder of the Talking Hands Pelin Baykan. In this delightful conversation in which we discussed current issues regarding social entrepreneurship, we witnessed the inspiring stories of our guests, who continued their projects after they were chosen as Turkey’s Changemakers.
Dilek Livaneli, the former village school teacher who lives in London, and İsmail Bayraktar, the founder of the Elazığ Social Cooperation Sports Club Association, were guests in our second program. In this conversation, we talked about the achievements of our Changemakers in the field of education and sports and experienced the great interest of audience through comments and likes.
In the third program of Conversations with Changemakers that took place on June 10, one of the founders of Belki de Sensin Aykut Kadir Kurt and animal rights defender Fatma Biltekin from Animal Rights Watch Committee (HAKİM) were our guests. In the live broadcast, we talked about the right and wrongs about stem cell donation and animals’ rights’ violation.
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