A collaborative study on social transformation: Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey and Oluşum Drama Institute

Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV) was founded with the aim of supporting the primary education provided by the government. One of the main objectives of TEGV is to create and implement educational programmes and extracurricular activities for socially/economically disadvantaged children, so they can acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes to support their development while learning to resist any kind of discrimination. In 2003, considering the aims of the foundation and the outcomes of the drama education, a collaboration was established between TEGV and Oluşum Drama Institute (ODI). A ten-week drama programme was developed with the aim of helping children to acquire basic personal skills such as self-confidence, empathy, self-development and creativity. This ongoing programme is being assessed at the end of every term, and revision is being conducted according to the results and the feedback. The results gathered from different locations reveal that the drama programme is successfully reaching its goals.