Seminar titled “Remove Barriers, Make a Difference in Life” held

Director of Tomurcuk Foundation Rehabilitation Center Öznur Şen and Psychologist Ayça Tezerişir attended the seminar as a speaker. The speakers talked about “What is the mental obstacle?”, “How and in what way is the education of individuals with this disability?”, “How do we communicate with mentally handicapped individuals?”, and about the aim of establishing of Tomurcuk Foundation, the activities of the foundation and how to volunteer for the foundation.

Before the seminar, a painting workshop was established at the Tomurcuk Foundation Rehabilitation Center, and finger paint and booklets with plain painting were made with the students with disabilities. The book separators were presented to the participants after the seminar. In the campus green field seedlings donated by the Avcılar Municipality Directorate of Parks and Gardens were planted by disabled students together with the project group.

Within the scope of the project, a survey was conducted with the 1st and 2nd grades of the School of Applied Sciences, Public Relations and Advertising Department, and the 1st and 2nd grades of the Vocational School, Public Relations and Publicity Department. The survey was conducted by Public Relations and Advertising Students: Mevlüt Mertcan Ödemiş, Yasemin Güler, Yaşar Yıldız, Yaren Kocaman and Mustafa Çalğın under the leadership of the Head of Public Relations and Advertising Asst. Prof. Emel Tozlu Öztay, Research Assistant Nevra Üçler and Istanbul Gelisim University Vocational School Department of Marketing and Advertising Lect. Fulya Beteş.

At the end of the event, Asst. Prof. Emel Tozlu Öztay, Head of the Department of Public Relations and Advertising presented plaques of appreciation to Öznur Şen and Ayça Tezerişir for their participation.