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Young AKUT Volunteers
This project is intended to demonstrate the values defined as the “AKUT
Spirit” to the children of primary education at the ages between 9 and 12.
The aim is to develop the cognitive, perceptional and psychomotor behaviors
of these children through the course programs prepared by the expert
trainers. The young people attending this project are expected and aimed to
be individuals having a volunteer notion, self-confidence, capability of
making initiatives, with problem solving ability, determination and courage,
with environmental consciousness and culture. Children participated in this
study are entitled to obtain a certificate of participation. The
professional trainers gave support during the project design and execution
and AKUT volunteers are implementing this project at the weekends.
AKUT Hand in Hand with Anatolia
As one of our projects with a different content; we have been carrying on
our various aid and support activities comprehensively, organized and by
huge participation under our project named “AKUT Hand in Hand with Anatolia”
for the needy whom we contact or get to know through various incidents in
socially, culturally and economically less developed regions of our country.
Each and every product provided to our association to be delivered to those
in need by national and international producers and benefactors as a result
of their confidence and courtesy; are evaluated within the frame of “AKUT
Hand in Hand with Anatolia” and all aid distribution studies are grouped
under this title.
AKUT Anatolian Truck
For a breath… this is how we call this project.
Equipped as a mobile training facility and accompanied by an ambulance to
make respiratory tests, our friends at the truck displayed a natural
disaster photo show, gave earthquake seminars, and distributed “Preparedness
Against Disasters” book, and a training cd prepared written by AKUT
Trainers.
Number of Participants: This project covered 81 cities and reached more than
1 million people.
Beginning and Completion Date: 8 April 2004 – 17 August 2004
This project has been organized by AKUT volunteers and sponsored by
ASTRAZENECA and TURKSPED.
Patient Transportation by Snowmobiles - Bingöl
Heavy weather conditions during winter season in Eastern and Southeastern
Anatolia region drastically affect the living standards of our people living
in these districts. Heavy snowfall closes most of the roads between many
residential areas sometimes even for months. Nonsuitability of the
geographical structure and climatic conditions sometimes makes construction
equipments and manpower incapable of opening the closed roads. This
situation causes serious problems especially for the people who are deprived
of general hospital facilities.
Considering bringing forward its available resources in such difficult
situations to the service of our people, AKUT started a pilot study in
Bingöl. Starting its operations in 10 November 2002 officially, and
regardless of the toughness of the winter conditions, AKUT Bingöl team upon
receipt of help calls, reaches the related region immediately by two
snowmobiles available and transports our people in need of help, who are
pregnant, kidney patient, wounded or injured, to the closest health facility
by fixing them to stretchers connected to snowmobiles.
AKUT BTC Project
AKUT Search and Rescue Association is well known by its voluntary rescue
operations performed in the natural disasters in our country and abroad and
as a result of the experience in winter and open field conditions, during
Baku-Tiflis-Ceyhan pipeline filling, AKUT supports the BOTAŞ teams, who are
in charge along the pipeline, in winter months. AKUT also gave “Survival”
and “Wilderness First Aid” trainings to the related BOTAŞ teams. During the
project, this team is ready for search and rescue operations along the line.
Kerman Province Disaster Preparedness Improvement Project – IRAN
After Bam earthquake, AKUT implemented “Disaster Preparedness Improvement”
project in Iran’s Kerman Province and gave “Crisis Management” trainings.
AKUT 1st International Disaster Symposium
Due to the 10th anniversary of its establishment, AKUT Search and Rescue
Organization organized the AKUT 1st International Disaster Symposium with
the kind support of the Bosphorus University at the University Campus in
Istanbul on March 23-24, 2006.
At the AKUT 1st International Disaster Symposium, 30 speakers from different
disciplines and from 6 countries made presentations in their own expertise.
AKUT University Communities
AKUT has signed cooperation protocols with many universities such as
Boğaziçi, İTÜ, Kocaeli and Uludag and worked together with these
universities in various projects. Supporting studies such as volunteerism,
blood donation, organ donation among univeristy students and community
awareness-raising, performs various knowledge sharing projects inside and
outside the universities as Uludag University, İzzet Baysal University and
Haliç University AKUT Student Communities formed together by the students.
Those university students who would like to start a similar study with AKUT,
may contact for more information.
“Communication is Life, Let’s Save Our Future Together” Earthquake
Training Truck
This Project has been carried out together by AKUT Search and Rescue
Association and Turkey Vodafone Foundation. Starting on 21 June 2008, Truck
visited 81 cities in 130 days and completed its route on 28 October 2008;
the project aimed to enhance public awareness and preparedness with regard
to earthquake.
The activities within the scope of the Project
• “Earthquake Training Photograph Exhibition” prepared for parents, children
and handicapped
• Distribution of 1 MILLION Earthquake Training Handbooks
• Earthquake Training Seminars
• Documentaries and Training movies prepared by the contribution of artists
and celebrities
• A play performed by Bunlar Onlar Theater Company
Focused on what must be done and must not be done before, during and after
an earthquake.
Campaigns and Projects Supported by AKUT
Blood Donation Campaigns / Since 1996
Every AKUT Volunteer knows that giving life to others is his or her duty
when joining this noble structure, so they start by donating their valuable
blood. The meaning of this symbol is very clear for us; anyone who sees it
his or her duty to save lives, firstly starts to help saving lives by
his/her own clean blood. The valuable bloods of our volunteer candidates
give life to somebody somewhere far away, even before they join AKUT
structure, then, our volunteers become a part of AKUT, and AKUT itself. AKUT
volunteers keep supporting the emergency blood needs while working in AKUT.
Mount Ağrı (Ararat) Climb for World Peace Together With Everest
Climbers / 2001
Together with two mountaineers of AKUT that climbed Mount Everest (1995 Ali
Nasuh Mahruki and 2001 Tunç Fındık), American, Colombian, Mexican and
Singaporean mountaineers invited by AKUT climbed Mount Ağrı (Ararat) for
world peace. At that time, world mountaineering community paid a lot of
attention to this sympathetic project and followed it through the internet
day by day.
Sarıkamış Martyrs Memorials on 89. and 90. Anniversaries / Since
2003
During the Sarıkamış Operation that took place between 22 December 1914 – 15
January 1915, 90% of the experienced 3. Army, pride source of the Ottomans,
froze on snowy icy mountains without even taking a bullet shot due to wrong
decisions and extremely greedy understanding and according to some
resources, 90.000 soldiers became martyrs in this bitter event. AKUT
volunteers have thought that this catastrophe that is one of the most bitter
events of our war history has not been acknowledged well enough and the
martyrs have not been commemorated as they deserved. In December 2003, on
the 89. anniversary of the Sarıkamış Tragedy, AKUT volunteers together with
Prof. Dr. Bingür Sönmez went to the region in order to march the same route
on Allahuekber Mountains and realized this pioneer project with the
participation of other non-governmental organizations that adopted the
project. In 2004, whole Turkey adopted the memorial activity that AKUT also
had a part in the idea pioneering and since then Sarıkamış Martyrs are
commemorated just like the Gallipoli Martyrs as they deserve.
Mountaineers That Had Undergone By Pass Operation on Mount Ağrı
(Ararat) / 2003
The main goal of the project that was carried out through the leadership of
Professor Dr. Bingür Sönmez was to give a message in making the patients
that had undergone coronary bypass operation to overcome as soon as possible
the psychological depression they went through naturally in the period after
the operation, by preventing them to feel in need of help, incomplete,
deficient, bound to their houses in the period after the operation. We
wanted to show that if the people that had undergone coronary bypass
operation, paid attention to their nutrition intake, their exercises, and
the advices of the doctors, they could have healthier, more balanced lives
with more quality than before, and both they and their families could
benefit socially and economically from this lifestyle to a great extent. It
was shown as a symbol in this climb that even the people that had undergone
the bypass surgery could be on top of Mount Ağrı (Ararat), the highest
mountain in Turkey.
Organ Donation Campaigns / Since 2005
We, the AKUT Volunteers, would like to serve the holiness of life, after our
existence in this beautiful world ends, just as we do when we are alive.
Aiming this, the AKUT Volunteers donate their organs. We hope that the
project that we started with the slogan “WE SAVE LIVES AS WE ARE LIVING AND
AFTER WE DIE” will benefit our nation and will set an example and in the
near future, we wish to achieve a society culture much more interconnected
with people caring more for each other’s problems, respecting each other,
just like it was in the past.
Mount Ağrı (Ararat) Winter Climb In Order To Point To Global Warming
/ 2007
We climbed Mount Ağrı (Ararat) in February 2007 with a team of 10 consisting
of Turkish and Chinese mountaineers. The aim was to point to the issues
related to the biggest problem of the world for today, the global warming.
The message was that there are always some measures that each country, each
individual can take and that we could overcome this problem with less damage
only if each one of us does his/her part of duty. We selected the slogan “WE
MUST PROTECT OUR WORLD, OUR ONLY HOME IN THE UNIVERSE” for this climb.
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