ÇANKAYA IS PARTICIPATING IN THE HEALTHY CITIES COMPETITION WITH 5 PROJECTS

15 June 2021 Tuesday 14:03

Çankaya Municipality is participating in the Healthy Cities Best Practices Competition with 5 projects this year, which is organized every year by the Healthy Cities Association to encourage the production of healthy city projects.

Çankaya Municipality, which will compete in the categories of Social Responsibility, Healthy Life and Healthy Environment, will participate with the projects entitled Tohumum Askıda (Eng:My Seed is Hanging), Elimin Emeği Evimin Ekmeği (Eng: My Hand's Labor is My Home's Bread), Sağlıklı Gelecek Çocuklarla Gelecek (Eng:The  Healthy Future will come with Children), Dayanışma Filesi (Eng: Solidarity Net) and Yeni Sistem Çöp Ekipmanları (Eng:New System Garbage Equipment).

HEALTHY LIFE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN

Çankaya Municipality, which started to implement the "Healthy Future will come with Children Project" in its kindergartens in order to provide children with the right attitudes in the pre-school period in the fight against childhood obesity and to raise the necessary awareness for their families; aims to raise awareness about obesity with sports and dance and healthy nutrition. On the other hand, “My Seed is Hanging” project raises environmental awareness among preschoolers through pot planting, recycling organic waste, planting fruit trees in the day care center gardens, making birdhouses and bee-tubs with seed exchange method.

SOLIDARITY WITH PRODUCERS AND WOMEN

Çankaya Municipality, which focused on social assistance during the pandemic process, distributed 40 tons of fruit from the producer to those in need. The municipality purchased nets, which are the products of women's handicraft in order to provide financial support to women in cooperation with women's cooperatives. The fruits were distributed in nets knitted by women; by supporting both farmers and women who make a living with hand labor, it has contributed to the healthy nutrition of those in need during the pandemic process.

MY HAND'S LABOR IS MY HOME'S BREAD

Since the women's handicraft sales stands, which Çankaya Municipality has opened free of charge since 2017, that could not be established due to the pandemic, income support was given to women who continue their production from home. By organizing An online survey that was conducted with 1200 women who benefited from the free stands , net, cloth mask, mask bag, felt wallet, amigurumi toy and cloth bag swere purchased and used in municipal services that purchased from 333 women who produced at their homes.

CLEAN ÇANKAYA

A cleaner Çankaya is aimed with the underground containers where household wastes are disposed of and the composite garbage bins used in areas with high mobility in the city. Among the New System Garbage Equipment used in public health that used in public health, urban aesthetics, security, needs and ergonomically used in the city; 500 underground containers and 5000 composite garbage bins were placed at various points in Çankaya.

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