The fundamental objective of the project is to build school-centered resilient communities at the local level and to increase the resilience of cities in an era in which multiple crises (climate change, economic crisis, and disasters) and their results are intertissued.
As children compose one of the most vulnerable groups of effects related to climate change, they constitute the primary target audience of the project. Also, with the aim of empowering a local community, different actors at the local level are targeted directly or indirectly. Schools are determined as the center of the spatial transformation and training process as they are the public spaces where different actors (students, teachers, employees, administrative personnel, and parents) are in continuous contact. Based on transformation in schools, it's aimed to reach a resilient local community at the neighborhood level. Other reason to choose schools as the center of the project is to contribute to the well-being of children, to their capacity for critical thinking and finding solutions related to the climate crisis (also defined as a child rights crisis), and to their right to voice related to the spaces that they live in. Also, we know that with the recent economic crisis in Turkey, children's food security has
become a crucial problem that needs an urgent solution. The project aims to take steps for the solution with field works and local cooperation around food.
While choosing the project implementation school and neighborhood, field information and experience of one of our project partners, Derin Yoksulluk A?? will guide us. In this process, one of the most decisive criteria is that the socio-economic circumstances of the neighborhood and the physical requirements of the project implementation school are compatible with the widespread profile. That will facilitate the extension of the project's outputs in other schools and neighborhoods.
The project aims to contribute to the capacity of the community to look at the available resources through different eyesights, find solutions to the problems with an ecological perspective, and build strong connections at the local level. We envisage that the school garden and the small-scale food
forest established within the project, the training program, and the fieldwork realized by the
participation of the neighborhood's residents will allow this aim.