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.
Middle to low income women with better
meetings and during credit disbursement
education and income levels than those in
and collection.
absolute poverty also became eligible for microcredit since it was felt that they have
.
and in May the number of women who
motivated to start their own businesses.
obtained credit had reached 90.
The Self employment for Gecekondu the other existing activities of the
microentrepreneurs was finalised. A proposal
Foundation, and meetings were organised
was submitted to UNDP for funds for
with women who benefit from the
publication.
.
The media’s interest in the Project and
natural food centre, the handcrafts centre,
in FSWW has continued, with the benefit
the toy making and sewing courses. The
of creating public awareness on
number of applicants increased as a result
self-employment and microcredit. The
of these meetings.
Project has appeared many times on public and private TV and radio channels,
Meetings continued to be organised with
and in magazines which has resulted in an
the private sector in order to identify the
increase in applications for credit inside
services and goods they demand in order
and outside Istanbul.
about the market.
.
Documents continued to be collected, and the outline of The handbook for women
to provide women with more information
.
.
women Project became well connected to
childcare centres, the women’s rooms, the
.
More than 200 women applied for credit,
clearer business ideas and are more
Gecekondu children Project through the
.
.
.
Meetings were held with governmental agencies and projects in order to increase
Stalls in the neighbourhood markets were
the credit fund of the Project and the
acquired in order to increase marketing
possibility of implementing the Project
facilities for the women.
outside Istanbul.
The previous year’s draft training programme
.
For the continuation of the Project a search
was improved with the inclusion of new
for funds started, and new project proposals
issues demanded by the women.
based on the experiences of the pilot project, were submitted to the EU and UNDP. As a
Training activities and exchange of
result, FSWW was among four NGOs selected
information and experience between the
to implement the UNDP’s Micro-Start
participants continued through monthly
Programme in Turkey.