Ahiska Turkish Project

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The community in Louisville, KY, hosted the first Ahiska / Meskhetian Turk Conference in the States. The community members were able to meet face to face with the community leaders and express their concerns and issues they would like to see addressed.

Nationalities Service Center has conducted Community Assessment in Philadelphia.

The community gathered at Nationalities Service Center to discuss and brainstorm about the vision of the community's future. The issues of youth leadership development and improving organizational capacity were brought up as one of the important ones for the community.

Welcome to the weblog of Ahiska Turks Project!

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On September 30th, 2006, Nationalities Service Center together with International Rescue Committee's project for Strengthening Organizations Assisting Refugees, conducted a Conflict Resolution and Negotion Skills Workshop for the Meskhetian Turkish Community.
At the end of the event, President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Mr. Jack DuVall, spoke about the efforts of the world struggling communities to fight for their rights in a nonviolent way, recognizing the efforts of the Meskhetian Turks in Russia during hunger strike in June 2002. The leader and organizer of the strike, Mr. Mukayil Latibov, on behalf of the whole community received a recognition award from ICNC.

The event concluded activites done under the Meskhetian Turkish Social Adjustment and Community Building Project. You can see the pictures from the event on our blog.

June 21, 2002. Hunger strike in Krasnodar, Russia. 67 Meskhetian Turks with the support of the rest of the community are fighting for their rights in a hunger strike. Read more...

Pictures of the Meskhetian gatherings in New York for Turkish parade.

Arrival to Philadelphia. Family reunited

World Refugee Day, June 20, 2006

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On June 20th, 2006 the dancing group of Meskhetian girls, under the supervision of Nargiza Karimova, performed the traditional Ahiskan dance at the World Refugee Day celebration in Philadelphia.

Project Update June

2006-06-23T09:31:00.000-05:00

Dear all,

Another update for the Ahiska Turkish Community Building Project is available on the blog. The technical assistance for the project is being available upon request, and NSC is working with partnering organizations and the community to meet the needs for technical assistance. NSC is looking to extend the project services, however, please note that the project is getting to its end by the end of the month of June 2006. Also, please have a look at the pictures of events held on the blog.

We would like to make an announcement that NSC together with IRC project SOAR and Turkish American Multicultural Family Services is holding a workshop provided by project that will address the conflict issues within the community, leadership building, issues of cultural preservation, negotiation, building the self-help structure within the Meskhetian Turkish community in greater Philadelphia and Lancaster area. The workshop is going to be held on July 22nd, the place and exact times will be reported once the logistics and agenda are confirmed. We are hoping to get leaders as well as potential leaders of the community together for a day of discussion about the community leadership trends, acquiring negotiation skills and talking about self-help and cultural preservation. Women and young people who are involved in the community are encouraged to attend. We are hoping to get a diverse group of people from the community who could play roles of leaders in the community. Please contact Leyla Dursunova at (215) 893-8400 for more information, or if any member of the community you are working with is interested in attending, they would need to RSVP in advance. The community leader, Mikael Latipov, arrived to Philadelphia from Krasnodar recently, who was an organizer of the hunger strike in 2002 together with human rights activists that caught attention of the international community. We are excited to have Mr. Latipov on board with the project. We appreciate the opportunity of having project SOAR's input into the project and value the established collaboration between the two agencies and we are looking forward to continue accessing the resources and assistance provided by IRC.

NSC project coordinator went to Vermont in order to provide technical assitance to the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program there. On the 29th of March the coordinator met with staff and service providers (health, education, social serivces) working with the Meskhetian Turkish population. The presentation included the cultural and historical background of the refugee population, lessons learned from the resettlement program in Philadelphia, informational session on NSC’s community building efforts, as well as questions and answers. On the 30th of March the project coordinator will meet with the ethnic community in Vermont for a questions and answers session, as well as together with the staff to identify most pressing needs of the community. The general information about the resettlement program in the U.S. and about issues that were of an interest to the community were discussed, as well as resettlement experiences and stories of Meskhetians in Philadelphia were shared with the community.

ORR regional workshop
The NSC coordinator and Director of Social Services department attended a workshop organized by ORR by the IRC’s project SOAR. The valuable information on the work and issues of ethnic CBOs, leadership trends within ethnic communities, and community building and development was gathered at the conference, and it also offered a great opportunity to network with the ethnic CBOs nationwide and learn from their experiences.

On May 27th NSC together with Turkish American Multicultural Family Services organized the financial literacy and home ownership workshop for community in Lancaster. The training focused on building credit history strategies as well as home ownership. The workshop was conducted in Turkish by volunteer professionals in the field, thanks to the Turkish American Multicultural Family Services. We also value and acknowledge great collaborative efforts from Lutheran Children and Family Services and Church World Services offices in Lancaster for all their support in putting a workshop together and outreaching to the community.

Please check out the pictures from the trip to Please Touch museum, World Refugee Day dance by the Ahiska Turkish dancing group organized by Nargiza Karimova, as well as pictures from the picnic on June 17th.

The photo documentary project was introduced to the youth at the picnic where they were asked to document their lives in the U.S. using photography. The photos will be developed and posted on the web log.

Please contact us with any question or concerns.

Picnic pictures, June 17th

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Please Touch museum trip, April 24

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Home Ownership workshop, May 27

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February Update

2006-03-08T22:42:00.000-05:00

Dear all,
Another update for the Meskhetian Turkish Collaborative Project from Nationalities Service Center is ready for your attention. Please find below the list of activities held during the past two months, as well as activities planned. Thank you.
On December 30th NSC held the New Year’s celebration evening for the Meskhetian Turkish community. It was a great gathering of the community with ethnic food, live ethnic music (from Lancaster, PA), dancing, games, and prizes. It was a great family fun, and people had a chance to enjoy the celebration among the community. People arrived from Northeast Philadelphia, Broomall, Upper Darby, and Lancaster. You can look at pictures on our weblog: www.ahiskaturks.blogspot.com. Some important issues about community organizing were raised, like unification and not the division of the Meskhetian Turkish community should be happening and few of the guests from the community spoke about the future hopes in the United States.
On Januray the 8th we held the financial education and home ownership workshop conducted in Turkish by two professionals at NSC. They were speaking about the importance and ways of keeping up good credit history and how this plays out in the future. Participants were able to ask questions about home ownership and mortgage, credit history and credit score.
We continue to get inquiries about the adjustment of status application process. Information about the adjustment of status is available in Russian and is mailed out upon request to the families.
We are planning a Citizenship workshop combined with the celebration of the International Women’s Day (March 8th) on the 11th of March, at NSC. The workshop will talk about the benefits, requirements and the process of obtaining the U.S. citizenship. It will also talk about the process of adjustment of status that many in the community are facing now. The workshop will be done in a very interactive and playful way by NSC’s Americorps VISTA volunteer, Kristina Koenig. The celebration after the workshop will be dedicated to the International Women’s Day that is celebrated by the community, and will have games, charades, dances, and hopefully some great ethnic food. The flyer in Russian for the event is attached.
On March 18th we’re planning to conduct a financial education/homeownership workshop for the community in Lancaster. The workshop will be similar to the one conducted in Philadelphia and will be conducted by the same Turkish speaking professionals.
We are receiving requests for technical assistance from the agencies, and the interagency collaboration is working great. NSC project coordinator is receiving a number of calls from agencies, volunteers and members of the ethnic community in different states with requests for information and various forms of assistance. Project coordinator is planning a trip to another resettlement site for Meskhetian Turks in Vermont in order to provide technical assistance to the agency and ethnic community there.
NSC is working with IRC, New York in obtaining the technical assistance on the project’s leadership development part and the collaboration’s been working great.
For the school spring break we’re planning to have the teen youth outing to Lancaster, children’s trip to “Please Touch” museum, and a community picnic.
The idea about obtaining marriage licenses has proved to be hard to logistically arrange with working families, however, we’re keeping the invitation open for assisting available couples in obtaining their marriage licenses in the future.
As always please feel free to share this information with anyone who you think would be interested, and please get back to us with your questions or comments.
Thank you.
Leyla Dursunova

First pictures

2006-02-26T17:15:00.000-05:00

Juliane Ramic, Khamdi Karimov, Saliya Seytajieva, NSC's first Meskhetian Turks arrivals at the first community gathering September 2004.

2006 New Year's Celebration

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October, November, December Project Update

2005-12-24T00:54:00.000-05:00

Dear all,

After a long break here comes yet another update for the Meskhetian Turkish Collaborative Project from Nationalities Service Center. Please find below the list of the activities held during the past two months, as well as activities planned. Thank you.

Meskhetian Turkish Community Building Collaborative Project is wishing you all a happy holiday season and all the best wishes in the New Year!

October 30th
Apple-picking trip to the farm
12 children and 10 adults from Meskhetian Turkish families joined the trip to the Snipes farm in Morrisville. Exciting trip in the eve of Halloween was a great fun adventure for children and for adults. There was apple and pumpkin picking, hayrides, corn maze, and a feast with pumpkin pies and apple cider afterwards on that beautiful fall day. You can find pictures from the event on www.ahiskaturks.blogspot.com. We had families from Chester, Philadelphia, Upper Darby present at the outing.

November 3rd
Eid celebration
The end of the holy month of Ramadan celebration was held by NSC at the Foundation for Islamic Education in Villanova. Families from Philadelphia, Chester Hill, Upper Darby, Lancaster, and Villanova were joined the gathering together with NSC staff. Traditional food was brought by the invitees and people were able to share the fun with their community. The celebration was a fun event where people of different ages in the community had a chance to interact with each other, play musical chairs, dance, and celebrate the end of the Ramadan, fist for most of them in the United States. You can find pictures from the event on www.ahiskaturks.blogspot.com. Each family left with a bunch of financial literacy brochures from Fanny Mae foundation in Russian on the following topics ” Borrowing Basics”, “Knowing and Understanding Your Credit”, “Opening a Door to a Home of Your Own”, and “Choosing the Mortgage That’s Right for You”.

Change of status application process
Many of the families are not yet ready to apply for their change of status or are being referred to other resources. So far NSC is working with 3 families processing their LPR applications. As soon as we have later arrived families ready to apply, the process will continue with those. The fees for the MT LPR applications are: $250 per person, however, households with more that 3 people do not pay the amount exceeding $750. Seniors are going to be processed pro bono.

Obtaining marriage licenses
The first family will be taken to the Philadelphia City Hall to apply for a marriage license last week of December. The process is going to be given the priority in the months of January and February, and the couples would gather for the celebration of their marriages possibly around the 8th of March – International Women’s Day. However, the date selected is very flexible and might be changed since it’s the event that is more important for the families. We are planning to work with the Foundation for Islamic Education, and Dr. Mustafa, who is able to register couples in the state of Pennsylvania, and agreed to assist the project in this matter. We will also be working closely with volunteers, churches and relatives of the young couples to make sure that community is aware of the process of obtaining marriage licenses and certificates for the future arrivals.

Collaboration with JEVS
NSC coordinator met staff of Jewish Employment and Vocational Services to introduce the project, since many Meskhetian Turkish families are being provided employment services by the organization. The possibilities of the project assisting the work of employment counselors through technical assistance were discussed.

Financial Literacy Workshop
NSC together with students from Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania conducted a financial literacy workshop in Russian that included the basics of banking, managing the credit history, family budgeting and money spending. We are planning to continue working with the families in the area on the issues of financial literacy since it seems to be one of the main concerns for them.

As always please feel free to share this information with anyone who you think would be interested, and please get back to us with your questions or comments.

Thank you.

Leyla

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Leyla N. Dursunova
Nationalities Service Center
1300 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 893-8400, ext. 124
ldursunova@nationalitiesservice.org

… And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!"
--Nelson Mandela

Eid Celebration, November 3rd, 05

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Trip to the farm

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September Project Update

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Update to Meskhetian Turks collaborative project, September, 2005

Adjustment of status
NSC lawyers together with two legal interns at the agency are working on preparation of the documentation for the application procedures for eligible Meskhetian Turks. The information about the application requirements has been previously distributed to the families in Russian. There are 4 families currently ready for the application. The process is planned to start the first week of October. Should you have any requests regarding the project, please contact Leyla Dursunova.

September 7 -8, the Project Coordinator attended a workshop organized by the IRC Project for Strengthening Organizations Assisting Refugees (SOAR). The workshop participants represented ethnic CBOs from NYC area. The experienced shared by the participants, presenters and IRC staff was very useful and is planned to be passed to the leadership group of the MT community. The connections with the CBOs were made and their experiences could be used to introduce the building process of the CBO to the MTs. Important issues like conflict resolution within the ethnic community, creating relations with media, organizational structure were discussed.

September 12, a women’s committee meeting was organized. Two NSC employment counselors and a staff person from JEVS were in attendance to discuss concerns around employment brought up by the women. Issues of adjustment of status, the future of the women’s committee, and the community wedding were other topics discussed.

September 17, a community meeting was held in Lancaster. Project activities were introduced and surveys were collected. The event was co-sponsored with PRIME and was held at the Red Rose foundation facility. Those in attendance requested future meetings to discuss educational opportunities, financial literacy, home ownership, legal rights, and career development. Representatives of the PRIME Lancaster, LCFS Lancaster were present at the meeting. Issues of the collaboration with the leadership group in Lancaster were discussed with the community and with representatives of the agencies.

September 26, Meskhetian Turks requested assistance in being reinstated at their places of employment. They were fired because their EADs had expired. NSC staff are assisting the families in this matter and will work with other employers to assure that others are not wrongfully terminated.

Activities Planned

A trip to a local family farm is being planned for the fall. Meskhetian Turk families will go apple or pumpkin picking. Additional updates will be sent out regarding this event to the interested parties.

Next women’s committee meeting will be scheduled for mid October. Issues of employment, green card application and possibilities of creating a women association were proposed as topics of interest for the next meeting. We hope to hold a job and service referral fair in the coming months.

On October 1, Red Rose Foundation together with Ahiska Turkish Association in Lancaster are organizing the festival in Longs park in Lancaster. Many of the families from Philadelphia, Lancaster and even other states are planning to attend the event.

Photo documentary project
NSC is planning to distribute cameras to the children and youth who will be asked to document their lives in the U.S. using photography. The photos will be developed and posted on the web log and presented in an exhibition open to the ethnic community and others interested. Should you have any ideas or comments to the project please contact us.

Web Log (blog)
NSC is currently working on developing a web log with the updates about the project. The draft blog could be viewed at http://www.ahiskaturks.blogspot.com/. Please send us pictures, stories, or any other information or comments you would want to appear in the blog.

The separate trips to Philadelphia City Hall will be planned for the period from October till the end of January. Since many couples are interested in obtaining marriage licenses we will assist them in obtaining marriage licenses. We plan to host a reception tentatively scheduled for February 14. Thanks to all of you who expressed interest in this activity, we’ll keep you updated on the project progresses.

Other planned activities

We are working in organizing a series of workshops that would include the following topics: parenting, financial literacy, and homeownership. Together with the Senior Law Center NSC plans to provide information to the families on advanced planning, wills, and medical directives. Field trips to SEPTA (local transportation authority), 911 call center, and a local police station are being planned. Community gathering will be hosted at NSC allowing the community to come together to celebrate the end of Ramadan. A spring celebration – Navruz – is planned to be hosted and coordinated with the community.

Please help us spread the word and as always, let me know if you are interested in joining us for any of these activities.

Thank you.

Leyla

The story of the Ahiska Turks in Krasnodar

2005-09-16T11:24:00.000-05:00

In June, 2002 Ahiska/Meskhetian Turks living in Krasnodar, Russia started a hunger strike that brought much needed international attention to their problems.
The community leader Mikael Latibov, in Stanitsa Kievskaya of Krasnodar region, together with the support of human rights group in Novorossiysk initiated the strike having about 37 people from Kievsakaya participating in the protest and many people from other areas coming to support the strikers.
Read more about the issue of Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in Krasnodar, Russia:

Action against infringement of Turks-Meskhetians' rights in Krasnodar Territory
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/617470.html - Caucasian Knot

Krasnodar Immigrants Fear Expulsion http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=160352&apc_state=henicrs2002 - Institute for Was and Peace Reporting

The Condition of Meskhetian Turks in the Krasnodar Territory and the Territorial Government Migration Policy http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/analyticstext/enganalytics/id/627469.html - Caucasian Knot

http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/news/?srch_section1=engnews&srch_section2=engfilMeshTurk - Caucasian Knot

Pictures from the picnic

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August Project Update

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Picture from the trip to Art Museum.

Update to Meskhetian Turks collaborative project, August 2005

July 27th: Seniors trip to the NSC’s Senior Center
Four senior Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks were taken to visit NSC’s Senior Center. They were shown the activities organized at the Senior Center, such as ESL classes, cooking lessons, physical exercises and others. It was a great interaction between the Ahiska Elders and elder people from other ethnic background. The experience was lit up by the ethnic Chinese client of the Senior Center who taught Russian as a second language in China years ago. The trip concluded by sightseeing around the city and picture taking by the museum of Art of Philadelphia. The general concern of the senior Ahiskalys was the issuance of Green Cards, therefore, the possibility of visiting their children in other countries.

July 27: Women’s group gathering in North East Philadelphia
The issues like assisting newly arrived families at their initial staged of their new lives, organizing employment preparedness workshop, as well as issues and stages of social adjustment for refugees were discussed at the gathering. The idea of creating a women’s committee group was discussed and supported by the women and it was decided to make the meeting on the regular basis. The women are working to organize another meeting and interested in having speakers come to talk about employment.

Filing for Legal Permanent Residency
Green Card Application process
Translated into Russian, a one-pager of the list of requirements to file for Legal Permanent Residency was mailed out to the families that arrived to the U.S. during summer 2004. The list of civil surgeons will follow up in early September. A legal intern will be assisting the families and the project with compiling the paperwork for the application process starting mid September. The adjustment of status workshop will be organized together with the legal assistant.

August 4th: Children’s trip to Art Museum.
10 children ages 5-12 from North East Philadelphia, Upper Darby and Broomall participated in a trip, which included 1 hour of architecture workshop. It was an educational trip where besides visiting the museum, children were able to learn about different architecture styles, and at the end of the workshop design and make their own building - from paper!

August 20th: Moscow Circus in town!
13 children from Broomall, North East Philadelphia and 6 adults visited Moscow Circus fun performance at Liacouras Center.

Online Project Blogg
Once it’s ready, NSC plans to share the online blogg designated for the project. The blogg will include project updates, pictures from the events, stories, discussions. Should you have any ideas, please feel free to suggest.

Agency collaboration activities
New World Association has been working closely with Meskhetian Turks living in North East Philadelphia. The celebration of the first year since the first arrival of Meskhetian Turks was organized by NWA on August 19th. NSC’s Director of Social Services and Project Coordinator joined the event to congratulate people they’ve been working with for the last year. The collaboration between the two organizations has been beneficial for this group and further cooperation agreement on working with this group was agreed upon.

NSC met with PRIME Lancaster to discuss further possible ways of cooperation and expanding the project services to Lancaster area. A Lancaster community meeting is currently being tentatively planned for September 17th.

NSC’s Project Coordinator Provides services to the community and to the resettlement agencies under the technical assistance of the project. Please refer your possible request by phone or email.

Other planned activities:

The community leadership development meeting and next women’s gathering both will be scheduled later in September in Philadelphia. The issues to be addressed at womenss committee meeting will be: employment, assisting newly-arrived families, social support to each other and application for Legal Permanent Residency.

Financial Literacy workshop in Lancaster dates and topics are to be determined and will be sent as a separate update later in September.

Community Wedding is to be scheduled and you will be informed on the further progress on this matter.

Thank you.

Leyla

July Project Update

2005-07-31T15:25:00.000-05:00

Update to the MT collaborative project

On 6/20/2005 NSC held an initial community leadership development meeting with the representatives of the families from various sites MTs are currently living at: Lancaster, North East Philadelphia, Upper Darby, Villanova, King of Prussia. The meeting was hosted at NSC’s office and there were 28 people present at the meeting. Savas Can and Leyla Dursunova were facilitating the meeting. The issues discussed were some of the following:

- The introduction to the project, it’s goals, activities, objectives
- The creation of the self help organization: how it works, what it is, and the possible way for the community to do it
The large part of the discussion consisted of the in-community brain storming about the leadership part. The issues with the current, so-called leadership were raised from the discussion and it was obvious that there are quite a few disagreements on the current way things are organized. Lancaster representatives had a clear idea and vision about what the leadership should be like, what it should be doing and how it should operate in the current flow of things. The biggest part of the refugee resettlement is concentrated in the North East Philadelphia area and the opinions on the leadership roles and functions were different within the group.

We hope to be able to openly discuss the rest of the issues on the next meeting in August.

Youth activities
NSC organized youth picnic on July 3rd and group youth outing on July 4th to the art museum area for Independence Day festivities and celebration.

27 Meskhetian Turkish teenagers (from North east Philadelphia, Telford, and Springfield, MA), children and young adults gathered at the picnic at Penny pack Park in North East Philadelphia. Various activities and games were provided and organized by NSC’s project coordinator and volunteers. The picnic was aimed to foster the interaction between the children.

On July 4th, 10 MT teenagers together were introduced to their first 4th of July celebration around Art Museum in Philadelphia. It was their first introduction to the Independence Day in the United States and the history of the holiday was beautifully told by NSC’s volunteer. The activity was aimed to share the American Holiday experience and foster civic participation mentality in youth.

Plans for the upcoming month

July 27th: Seniors trip to the NSC’s Senior Center
July 27th: Trip to the gardening store for elders to choose the plants they would like to grow as part of the gardening activity for elders
July 27: Women’s group gathering in North East Philadelphia: the issues like assisting new families in their new life, organizing employment preparedness workshop, social adjustment issues for refugees and families, creating a women’s committee group
By July 30: Distribution of the need assessment survey in Russian to all MT families. The results of the survey will provide information on the topics of interests for organizing workshops, training sessions for MT families.
By July 30: Together with the survey NSC will mail out the translated into Russian requirements to file for Legal Permanent Residency for the families that arrived to the U.S. during summer 2004
August 4th: Children’s trip to Art Museum, includes a 1 hour architecture workshop, for children ages 6-12 years old (please let us know if you have any MT children in mind for this)
August 4th: Art Museum trip will be followed by a trip to a Public Library

Other upcoming events:
NSC plans to organize the financial literacy workshop, initially for the group in Lancaster, using an experienced volunteer in the area of finance with the experience of providing similar training to refugees resettled by IRC, NY. The successful implementation would lead to the expanding the workshop to other areas of Meskhetian Turkish resettlement.

August gathering to follow up on the community leadership development

In September, NSC is planning to organize a “group wedding” for young MT families that were not able to get officially married in Russia but are willing to legalize their relationships in the U.S..

Adjustment of Status workshop is planned for early fall 2005

Introdiction to the Project

2005-06-05T20:04:00.000-05:00

September 5, 2005

To Whom It May Concern:
We are pleased to inform you that the Nationalities Services Center has received a grant from Office of Refugee Resettlement to launch the Meskhetian Turk Social Adjustment and Community Building Collaborative Project.
NSC plans to support and encourage development of the existing ethnic community leadership in hopes of creating an ethnic community based organization. Activities will aim to foster civic participation and encourage civic engagement: given the ethnic community’s desire to feel a sense of belonging after being denied this in Russia.

We are also planning to implement a series of community orientation sessions to meet the information needs of the ethnic community’s elders and adults, young adults, and youth. Within the activities of the project NSC will provide technical assistance and support to members of the refugee community, resettlement agencies, social service providers, the general community and the State Refugee Coordinator where needed.

NSC’s dedicated project coordinator, a Meskhetian Turk social worker, Leyla Dursunova, will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services and technical assistance. The assistance will be provided through the telephone line, by email, and in person. Turkish American Multicultural Family Services is a subcontractor in the project, and Savas Can will be involved in leadership development activities in the project.

We are looking forward for a rewarding collaborative initiative to provide improvement of services for the resettlement agencies working with Meskhetian Turks. Please contact Leyla Dursunova should you have any further questions about the project.

Sincerely,
Juliane Ramic
Director of Social Services