“Add a Brick Campaign!” - Help Hrant Dink Foundation Move to New Premises
Dear Friend,
As you are aware, the Hrant Dink Foundation was established in 2007 after the painful event on January 19th in order to avoid similar pains and to continue Hrant Dink’s legacy, his language and his dream of a world that is more free and just. Democracy and human rights for everyone regardless of their ethnic, religious or cultural origin or gender is the foundation’s main principle. We are working for a future where a culture of dialogue, peace and empathy prevails.
The expanding fields of activity, the archive, the library and various project teams’ working space requirements of our Foundation compelled us to search for a bigger place. We eventually came to an agreement with AnaratHığutyun Armenian Primary School’s Foundation and signed the contract after finalizing the bureaucratic procedures to hire the building of the school, which had no students since 2004.
The 800-m² building is located just across Harbiye Military Museum, in Papa Roncalli Street situated at the first lower parallel of Cumhuriyet Avenue, and is easily accessible by public transportation. We believe that this venue will offer new opportunities for the future endeavours of our Foundation and will be beneficial for the society at large.
Please find attached the plans of our building which - besides offering wide working spaces, will have a library, an archive, a multi-purpose hall and an exhibition space. Thanks to the facilities of this new venue, we would like to expand our activities in the fields of minority rights, history, culture and arts, Turkey-Armenia relations; organise trainings and workshops that honours the history of the building; organise cultural events; expand the existing archives and make the new library available for all researchers studying Armenian culture and history; and through these efforts we would like to contribute to the democratisation of the country, its coming to terms with the past and its building of a healthy future.
As the school building itself is very old and has not being used for a long time, a tailor-made restoration project is necessary. Some of the working spaces will be hired to Agos Newspaper and our main aim is to create a place equipped with young, modern and new technologies that reflect Hrant Dink’s and the Foundation’s inclusive and sharing spirit… Within this concept frame, we are launching the “Add a Brick!” campaign for the financing of the project by adopting a method of participation.
We believe that the project will expand along with your contributions and will become a shared project of tens and hundreds of supporters. If they deem it appropriate– the names of the supporters will displayed on the wall sculpture to be designed by our dear friend ErdağAksel, the designer of the Hrant Dink Award statuette.
Dear Friend,
We kindly ask your generous support to accomplish the restoration and furnishing Project with attached details, which is estimated to cost approximately 1.500.000, - million TL (USD $800,000, - /Euro €600,000).So far, we have been able to raise USD 100,000, - thanks to the donations made by the friends and associates of our Foundation.
We are grateful to our friends HasanKarabey, LoryZakar, HayriyeSözen, EmreSavga, Mehmet Erkök and EylemEfe for their efforts to design a place that befits our Foundation.
Please inform us the names of your friends that would like to take part in this campaign. We would also appreciate if you could help us to reach to a wider supporter group.
With respect, love and amity
The persons who contributed the first bricks:
DenizCihatAksel, ErdağAksel, CengizAktar, Ayşe GülAltınay, AlaeddinAsna, MuratcanZincirciAsna, SibelAsna, TatyosBebek, İbrahim Betil, Mehmet Betil, AyferBartuCandan, CüneytCebenoyan, Tuba Çandar, Dink Ailesi, FarukEczacıbaşı, FüsunEczacıbaşı, EdhemEldem, Mehmet Erbudak, MelihFereli, Ayşe Gözen, Ahmetİnsel, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, FuatKeyman, Ali Nesin, Harry Parsekian/Friends of Hrant Dink, AlperÖktem, HermineSayan, Ayşe Soysal, BetülTanbay, GörgünTaner, TosunTerzioğlu, HidayetŞefkatliTuksal, TarıkTüten, CemalUşak, Serra Yılmaz, NadyaZincirci.
We kindly ask you to use below information for wire transfers via the bank:
(The bank transfer receipts may be used as voucher.)
Account Name: Hrant Dink Foundation
TL Account IBAN : TR58 0001 5001 5800 7301 1112 98
USDollar Account IBAN: TR34 0001 5001 5804 8014 0612 43
Euro Account IBAN : TR94 0001 5001 5804 8014 0612 30
Bankers:Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası / Osmanbey Branch / Branch Code: 6
Halaskargazi Cad. Yasan Ishani No. 243
Osmanbey / Istanbul
Tel.: 0212 232 1301
Fax: 0212 248 9709
Swift Code: TVBATR2A
For any questions and further information, please contact us:
Hermine Sayan
Tel: + 90 212 240 33 61 – 62
Fax: + 90 212 240 33 94
Zeynep Taşkın
Mobile: 0532 381 13 48
Sibel Asna
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