ÇAÇOY (Çankaya Municipality’s Wooden Toy Atelier)

0 312 473 83 00

Aşağı Öveçler 1331. Sokak No:4 Çankaya / ANKARA

ÇAÇOY - Çankaya Municipality Center for Social Projects

ÇAÇOY (Çankaya Municipality’s Wooden Toy Atelier) project ensures mentally and physically disabled person’s full participation in social life and it is one of the steps taken on the path raising their living standards. ÇAÇOY is founded in order to product wooden toys for children with the support and supervision of professional staff (social service experts) and seasoned veterans in sheltered workshops arranged for the physically and mentally disabled individuals and to exhibit those toys at local and national levels, and to promote and sell them. Thus people with disabilities have been bringing to work life with an education intertwined with production.

Our goal is to show that individuals with disabilities can produce outstanding products in international standards when necessary support and supervision provided. Besides those disabled individuals are included in a series of events like sport, cultural activities, trips, etc. to ensure their social rehabilitation as much as for their productivity and motivation. A collaboration has been carried out for sheltered workshops and the production process by building a cooperation protocol with Praunheim Werkstatten Foundation and its company that working in this field for more than 100 years located in Frankfurt, Germany. All technical information for the design and production process of the two products are transferred free of charge to our project in this context.

Wood material information, equipment information, machine information, drawing, surface processing and workshops are technical courses offered to the participants in scope of Çankaya Municipality’s Wooden Toy Workshop Project.

  • ÇAÇOY won “2012 Most Successful Social Project” prize in the field of social responsibility of Turkish Healthy Cities Association.
  • ÇAÇOY – Çankaya Wooden Toys Atelier Project, which is the first in social projects field in Turkey, has been launched in order that people with mental and physical disabilities go out of their homes and participate in social and economic life.
  • 16 trainees among those graduated from the ÇAÇOY Courses have been permanently employed.

ÇAÇOY - Çankaya Municipality Center for Social Projects

  • ÇAÇOY won “2012 Most Successful Social Project” prize in the field of social responsibility of Turkish Healthy Cities Association.
  • ÇAÇOY – Çankaya Wooden Toys Atelier Project, which is the first in social projects field in Turkey, has been launched in order that people with mental and physical disabilities go out of their homes and participate in social and economic life.
  • 16 trainees among those graduated from the ÇAÇOY Courses have been permanently employed.

Objective of Project

  • To ensure social integration of groups with disabilities.
  • To adopt the idea that persons with disabilities are part of the society.
  • To create conditions for co-existence.
  • To enhance the quality of life.
  • To create a healthy and habitable urban environment for all.

Project Partners

  • Çankaya Municipality Center for Social Projects
  • Çankaya Belediyesi Service Unit for Persons with Disabilities
  • Çankaya Belde Inc.
  • Turkish Employment Agency
  • Turkish Republic National Education Ministry
  • Çankaya City Council’s Assembly for Persons with Disabilities
  • Praunheimer Werkstätten

What do we do in ÇAÇOY?

  • In ÇAÇOY 20 trainees are given 1008 hours practical and technical training in 6-month period.
  • Graduates are given Certificate of Wooden Toys Manufacturing Foreman.
  • Students who have accomplished in our trainings are employed for 6 months as interns by Çankaya Belde Inc.
  • After second 6 months those accomplishing start working as Wooden Toys Manufacturer.
  • Our trainees are fetched home by free shuttles and have access to free lunch in our centers.
  • İŞ-KUR (Turkish Employment Agency) pays each trainee pocket money 20 TL per day.
  • All our trainees have work and accident insurance coverage throughout training.
  • Our practical and theoretical vocational training is accompanied by an intense social rehabilitation program for our youngsters with disabilities and their families.
  • As part of therapy program, social activities such as music, yoga, painting, drama are carried out with support of teacher volunteers and socialization opportunities are provided by organizing trips.

How to Apply?

It is possible to apply and talk with social workers in the Center for Social Projects by dialing up this number: (0 312) 473 83 00

Who Can Apply?

Any person with mental and physical disabilities who live in Ankara and over 15 years-old

Scope of Project

  • In ÇAÇOY space designed for persons with mental and physical disabilities (based on internationally recognized standards) manufacturing wooden toys and adult games under supervision and support of professionals and experienced masters.
  • Exhibition, promotion and sale of these manufactured toys at local, metropolitan and national level.
  • Cooperation with all governmental institutions, NGOs, trade-unions working on rights and demands of persons with disabilities, relevant departments of World Health Organization, United Nations and European Commission.

Manufacturing Process

  • Manufacturing wooden toys:Manufacturing wooden toys to be exhibited on shelves and in showcases at high quality and price level under supervision and support of professionals and experienced masters.
  • Manufacturing wooden games for adults: Manufacturing wooden games (for adults) to be exhibited on shelves and in showcases at high quality and price level under supervision and support of professionals and experienced masters.
  • Exhibition, distribution and sale of the manufactured toys and games: High quality manufactured products are promoted and sold with professional standards of marketing at local, metropolitan and national level; we aim at ranking among “top-quality and safest” products in the medium and long term.
  • International standards in manufacturing conditions and product certification:: international certification including informing consumers and public to the extent of all manufacturing process from wood material to workbench, to the extent of specifications of all materials used in manufacture.

Quality and Sale of Toys

  • Toys manufactured less than 12 % humidity rate (in international standards) are more durableas such.
  • They are colored with water-based paints, totally natural, free of chemicals; not including any ingredient harmful for health.
  • Toys are presented to the people in Çankaya Municipality Center for Social Projects at Öveçler Çetin Emeç Boulevard where manufacturing ateliers are located.

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