This document summarizes the "Daddy, Send Me to School" campaign launched in Turkey in 2005 to increase girls' education. It provides statistics showing girls had lower secondary education rates than boys. The campaign aimed to address this through financial support like scholarships and dormitories, improving social life in dormitories, and raising awareness. Over 10,000 girls received scholarships, 33 dormitories were built, and the campaign fundraised over $17 million USD. It provides updates on progress, including photos of supported students. Statistics demonstrate the campaign's impact in increasing girls' enrollment, attendance and completion of secondary school.

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The Start-Off
It is known that in our country the ratio of girls
continuing their education especially after primary
school is lower than boys. To deal with this
problem the Ministry of Education has accelerated
building dormitories for girls and initiated fund
raising campaigns for girls’ education such as
“Girls, Let’s Go to School” and “Mom & Girl at
School”
In Turkey 15% of the young aged between 15-19
do not have a primary school diploma. Every 7 out
of 10 young without a primary school diploma is
‘girls’1.
%12.3 of women are illiterate.
1 2006 Household Workpower Survey results, conducted by
Dinçer and Kolaşin 2008.

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What do we aim with
the campaign “Daddy,
Send Me to School”
On April 23rd, 2005, we announced our
campaign “Daddy, Send Me to
School”, through newspapers and TV.
We realized from the various studied
conducted, the task of introducing
young girls to the educational system
could be tackled under three main
headings::
1- Financial support
2- Improving the quality of social life
3- Enhancing social consciousness and
structural problems.

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What should be done?
1) Financial support
Constructing
dormitories for girls at
secondary school.
Building schools,
classrooms where
needed.
Giving scholarships
especially to girls at
6th, 7th, and 8th grades

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What should be done?
2- Improving the quality of social life
Constitution of social living spaces in dormitories, and developing
sports facilities
Giving opportunities to girls to meet role models in big cities such as
İstanbul and İzmir
Contributing to girls’ development through collaboration with
universities
Motivating talented girls by organizing competitions in the fields of
painting, poetry and essay writing.
Organizing private seminars on the subjects of hygiene at common
living spaces, body health etc.

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What should be done?
3) Enhancing social consciousness and
structural problems
Enhancing common consciousness by means
of news about the importance of education of
girls and education in general.
Educating parents
Announcing the best practices to public
Gaining local contribution and public support
for girls’ education

8.  We established a steering commitee in Milliyet from
various disciplines and for two years had weekly
meetings.
 We worked with Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) such as
ÇYDD, TUKD, AÇEV, TAP.
 ÇYDD was our strategic partner in this project that we
had a mutual steering commitee with them and
organized monthly meetings.
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How we have done it?
* Established strong relationships with NPOs

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What have we done so far?
1) Financial aid
Education needs were determined for each city and were announced in the
newspaper;
Scholarships have been given to 10, 524 girls for 4-6 years;
11 schools were built, 8 of which were village schools;
Building of 33 dormitories for girls were committed. 29 of them opened. Girls stay in
these dormitories while continuing their education. 4 will be opened by September
2011;
The campaign was introduced through television programs and obtained financial
support;
With European circulation of Milliyet, our European citizens supported the
campaign and with their donations 2 schools were built in Mus;
Up to day, 34 million TL (17 million EUR) fund raised in total in this campaign.

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What have we done so far?
List of the Dormitories and Schools:
*: One dormitory in Ağrı, and other dormitories in
Konya, Trabzon and Uşak , total for dormitories,
will be opened in September 2011.
CITY
# of SCHOOLS
CONSTRUCTED
AĞRI 1
İSTANBUL 1
MARDİN 1
MUŞ 6
ŞANLIURFA 2
TOTAL: 11
CITY
# of DORMITORIES
CONSTRUCTED
TOTAL CAPACİTY of
DORMITORIES
AĞRI * 3 300
ARTVİN 1 75
BARTIN 1 200
DENİZLİ 1 100
ERZURUM 2 300
GÜMÜŞHANE 4 400
IĞDIR 1 120
İSTANBUL 1 100
KAHRAMANMARAŞ 2 100
KARS 4 520
KONYA * 1 100
MARDİN 2 200
MUĞLA 1 50
MUŞ 1 100
OSMANİYE 1 250
SİİRT 1 100
TEKİRDAĞ 1 150
TOKAT 1 100
TRABZON * 1 100
UŞAK * 1 100
VAN 1 100
YALOVA 1 120
TOTAL: 33 3685

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What have we done so far?
Photos with the students staying in BBOG dormitories and schools:

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What have we done so far?
Photos with the students staying in BBOG dormitories and schools:

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What have we done so far?
2- Improving the quality of social life
Worked with university students to add joy and
liveliness to our girls’ lives staying in dormitories;
With Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation
seminars were given in dormitories on subjects such
as hygiene and health in collaboration with Eczacıbaşı
and İpek Kağıt;
With the financial support of Kamil Koç Buses, the
social spaces in dormitories were decorated to develop
girls’ hobbies and music courses started;
60,000 books mostly donated by Milliyet were
distributed to all our dormitory libraries;
A Sport saloon was built at the back yard of dormitory
in Agri Doğu Beyazıt with the support of Saran Holding;
Painting, poetry and composition competitions were held among the “Daddy, Send me to
School” girls who got scholarship and stay in our dormitories. Girls who got top 3 ranks in
competition were invited to Istanbul and were presented their awards in a ceremony.

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What have done so far?
3) Enhancing common consciousness
Seminars entitled “My Child and I” were
given to parents by AÇEV.
On April 9th 2005, April 15th 2006 and
June 7th 2008 3 workshops were
organized with participation of civil
administrators, ministry of education
authorities, and non governmental
organizations.
Seminars were given on the importance of girls’ education to Regional
Boarding Primary School administrators and teachers in İstanbul.
Every year training seminars on adolescence period, hygiene, dormitory
administration are given to dormitory administrators and teachers in İstanbul
for one week.

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Istatistics-1
Schooling ratio by educational year and level of education
Educational
Year
Primary education Secondary education
Total Males Females Total Males Females
2005/'06 89,77 92,29 87,16 56,63 61,13 51,95
2006/'07 90,13 92,25 87,93 56,51 60,71 52,16
2007/'08 97,37 98,53 96,14 58,56 61,17 55,81
2008/'09 96,49 96,99 95,97 58,52 60,63 56,30
2009/'10 98,17 98,47 97,84 64,95 67,55 62,21
2010/'11 98,40 98,60 98,20 69,30 72,40 66,10
80,00%
82,00%
84,00%
86,00%
88,00%
90,00%
92,00%
94,00%
96,00%
98,00%
100,00%
2001-20022002-20032003-20042004-20052005-20062006-20072007-20082008-20092009-20102010-2011
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Istatistics-2
Schooling rates in
respect to the
characteristics in the
household
Source: Household Labor
Force Survey (2008)
2008
Male Female
Participation in
Primary School
Participation in
Secondary School
Participation in
Primary School
Participation in
Secondary School
Total 99,00% 51,80% 97,30% 48,90%
Residential Area
Rural 98,80% 40,20% 95,70% 30,00%
City 99,00% 56,30% 98,00% 58,30%
number of
siblings
0-1 99,50% 62,40% 99,20% 66,10%
2-3 99,00% 48,90% 97,90% 47,30%
4 or more 97,50% 31,20% 91,80% 21,10%
Education level of
the Head of the
Household
Illiterate 96,50% 28,20% 90,60% 15,60%
Literate 96,20% 29,40% 90,50% 20,20%
5 yrs of education
in Primary School
99,00% 46,20% 97,30% 44,10%
Grad. from Primary
School
99,60% 65,60% 98,90% 63,70%
Grad. from
Secondary School
99,70% 82,70% 99,40% 80,70%
Grad. from
University & above
99,80% 91,50% 99,80% 94,10%
Working sector of
the head of the
household
Agriculture 98,70% 37,30% 94,50% 24,00%
Sectors other than
aggriculture
99,20% 59,20% 98,30% 60,20%
Single mother parenting households 98,40% 48,30% 96,50% 45,40%

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Istatistics-3
Absenteeism rates in primary schools (source: MEB 2011)
Absenteeism rates in secondary schools (source: MEB 2011)
Enrollment Rates
Female/Male %
(ages btw 6-13 yrs)
Female/Male %
(all ages)
Absenteeism %
Total Female Male Total Female Male
2009-2010 98,20% 97,80% 98,50% 94,00% 94,00% 10,40% 8,90% 11,70%
2010-2011 98,40% 98,20% 98,60% 94,50% 94,90% 11,60% 10,30% 12,70%
Enrollment Rates Female/Male %
Absenteeism % in
Secondary Schools
Absenteeism % in Technical
Secondary Schools
Total Female Male
Total Secondary
Schools
Secondary Schools
Technical
Secondary
Schools
Total Female Male Total Female Male
2009-2010 65,00% 62,20% 67,60% 84,70% 95,40% 73,10% 44,40% 39,50% 49,10% 49,00% 39,30%
56,20%
2010-2011 69,30% 66,10% 72,30% 83,60% 93,60% 73,30% 28,00% 22,60% 33,10% 35,70% 26,60%
42,40%

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Istatistics-4
Regional absenteeism rates in education
(source: MEB 2011)

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Istatistics-5
Drop out rates in secondary schools - in accordance
with the type of education (source: MEB 2010)
% 0,0
% 5,0
% 10,0
% 15,0
% 20,0
% 25,0
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Kız
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Kız
Erkek
Resmi ve örgün
ortaöğretim
Akademik seçici
liseler (Anadolu
öğretmen
liseleri dahil)
Genel liseler Mesleki ve
teknik liseler
İmam-hatip
liseleri
Özel eğitim
meslek liseleri
2008-2009
2009-2010

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Istatistics-6
Regional drop out rates in secondary schools
(source: MEB 2010)

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Istatistics-7
Employment rates according to the level of education
(source: Household Labor Force Survey (2008))
FEMALE MALE
Working % Unemployed % % not in Labor force (inactive) Working % Unemployed % % not in Labor force (inactive)
Literate 15.59 0.75 83.66 37.19 7,75 55.05
5 yrs of education in primary
schools
21.48 2,08 76.44 64.04 9,03 26.93
Graduate from primary schools 15.36 3,41 81.22 49.94 10,12 39.94
Graduate from secondary
schools 21.53 7,86 70.61 59.06 9,96 30.98
Graduate from technical
secondary schools
28.53 9,52 61.94 70.52 9,91 19.57
Graduate from university &
above 59.23 11,32 29.45 74.74 7,04 17.86
All male & females 21.79 3,35 74.86 59.48 9,13 31.39

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Our Awards
 Doğan Media Group 2005 Creativity Awards, The Most Creative Social
Responsibility Project
 Capital Magazine Year’s Best Social Responsibility Project in 3 consecutive
years
 World Children Union Appreciation Award (UNESCO)
 IPRA UN Special Award
 Magazine Editors Association Special Award
 Turkish National Olympic Committee 2005 Public Fair Play Career Award
 Anadolu Bil Meslek Yüksek Okulu 2nd Traditional Communication Awards, Best
Campaign of the Year
 İ Medya İnteraktive Media Broadcasting Special Award
 Lions’ Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Public Leadership Award
 Kadir Has University Honorary Award
 Galatasaray University Best of 2006 Awards Best Social Responsibility Project
 YTU Stars of Year 2006 Most Liked Social Responsibility Project
 KTU Management and Economy Club 2006 Mediatic Survey, Best Social
Responsibility Project

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What can we do?
To support:
Education of girls who play a primary role in the education of future generations must
be a social campaign owned by the public. If we do not take action today, tomorrow
might be too late.
It is possible to help a girl continue her education for monthly 44 TL (23 euro).
Unfortunately, very basic problems of education haven’t been solved yet. Everybody
has a responsibility on this matter. We believe problems can be solved easily with
common consciousness.
Mobile phone holders can
Write Burs (scholarship) and send to 5414
Write Yurt (dormitory) and send to 5415
With each message one can contribute 10 TL (5 euro)
On bbog.org website one can fill the credit card form to contribute monthly 44 TL
(23 euro) to commit a girl’s scholarship.
One can contribute to building of a dormitory by a wire transfer of 525 TL (272 euro)
to Türkiye İş Bankası, account no 805805.

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