Snowflakes Women's Initiative Production and Business Cooperative Hosted Guests

The delegation headed by World Academy for Local Government and Democracy (WALD) Chairman of the Executive Board Dr. Mehmet Duman, Mayor of Gaziosmanpaşa Hasan Tahsin Usta and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Turkiye Representative Philippe Leclerc visited the Snowflakes Women's Initiative Production and Business Cooperative.

In the visit, protection and access to livelihoods policies were discussed and the Social Protection Project was evaluated. After the meetings, UNHCR Turkiye Representative Philippe Leclerc, UNHCR Senior Deputy Field Manager Mohammad Fateh Alkadah and WALD Chairman of the Executive Board Dr. Mehmet Duman visited Gaziosmanpaşa Social Protection Desk and take information about the services provided there.

Afterwards, the delegation visited the area where the products produced by the “Snowflakes Women's Initiative Production and Business Cooperative”, established in cooperation with WALD, Gaziosmanpaşa Municipality and UNHCR are exhibited. Gaziosmapaşa Mayor Hasan Tahsin Usta gave information about the production and sales of the products in the cooperative. Leclerc, who visited the work in place, drew attention to the importance of cooperatives in the presentation of products to national and international markets emphasized that they would provide the necessary support for women to find more production and marketing opportunities and that these supports should be increased and continued in the following processes.