About Peace Station

Peace Station Project

The Peace Station Project aims to assist orphaned children and their mothers in coping with their loss, and to alleviate the psychological impact caused by this loss. The project identifies the needs of its target audience, consisting of orphaned and socially orphaned children and their mothers, through objective methods. It develops programs to address these needs and conducts evaluations post-implementation. These evaluations are used both to assess the effectiveness of the programs and to refine them, ensuring that they align more closely with the goals.

The Peace Station Project, through the development of “intervention” programs, seeks to reduce the risk factors in the lives of the target group while increasing the support factors. The activities carried out under the project aim to encourage the mental, emotional, and social development of the children. Additionally, efforts are made to enhance the academic achievements of the children, and to foster their development in multiple domains based on the theory of multiple intelligences by organizing art and skill workshops. Alongside the children, psychological support programs and educational workshops are also organized for mothers. The aim of these programs is to strengthen women mentally, improve their parenting skills, and reduce the use of negative discipline methods toward their children.

Activities for Orphaned Children and Mothers within the Project:

Individual/Group Psychotherapy Services for children and mothers
Art, Skill, and Play Workshops for children
Cultural and Artistic Excursions
E-Wellbeing Project
Psychoeducational Workshops for mothers and children
Collaboration with Schools

Short-Term Goals of the Project

The short-term objectives of the psychosocial activities aimed at alleviating the psychological issues resulting from parental loss are as follows:

To restore the basic sense of security that has been lost,
To prevent disruptive effects and potential psychological disorders stemming from post-traumatic stress reactions,
To assist women and children in returning to the level of functionality they had before the traumatic experiences,
To help children and women correct distorted views about themselves, their future, and their environment, and to develop more realistic and positive perspectives,
To educate parents and teachers on how to approach children who have experienced trauma, loss, and grief,
To inform the target group about their basic rights (such as school enrollment, available financial support, etc.),
To create a database that will support the academic publication of research on children who have experienced the loss of a parent.

Long-Term Goals of the Project

The long-term objectives of the project are:

To expand institutions and centers providing services to children and mothers who have experienced the loss of a parent,
To make academic publications that enhance the quality of psychosocial work for children and mothers who have experienced parental loss,
To foster a sense of social responsibility among the students working as volunteers in the project.