Today we were at the Youth Services and Sports center, in
Kayseri.
The director received us with great enthusiasm, and invited us for a
short conversation about our cultural differences and personal beliefs about
religion. I think this is the most common discussion topic, especially with
foreigners, and especially during Ramadan.
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| View from the director's office |
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| Me with Kevser Kaplan (EVS coordinator) |
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| Mr. Murat Eskici (youth center director) and IYACA turkish volunteers (Büşra Akkaş and Bülent Yozgat) |
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| Look at all of these awards. Wow! |
We expressed out interest for the activities they are
holding there and the youth center director, Mr. Murat Eskici, was very kind
and invited us to take part in some activities, in return for conversing and interviewing
(in English) the athletes from the center.
After leaving Mr. Murat Eskici office, the youth leader of
the Youth Center Syed Burhanuddin, gave us the tour of the center. Because it’s
summer time, most the the young people that usually go there to take science
courses, or ebru painting lessons, are in holiday.
So the center was full of
children around 10 years old, who were there to learn to read the Koran - The Quran literally meaning "the
recitation" (Qurʾan or
Koran) is the central religious
text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله, Allah).
Here is one of the teachers, reading the Quran:
There
were some children playing in the center’s yard:
We are grateful for the valuable time allocated by
Murat Eskici, Kayseri Provincial Director of Youth Services and Sports and
Youth Leader, Mr. Ali KARADELİ. We hope to meet with them again on future
projects and activities.
PS: Me and Miriam in the Tram
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