Health education to refugee women in İzmir

Hatice Aktay, 25 January 2018 Reyhan Gümüşkaya Kaplan, instructor of women’s health, shared her opinions on women’s health seminars held in the Association for Solidarity with Syrian Refugees with the cooperation of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and Turkish Family Health Foundation. Which topics did you talk on during the seminars? The seminars in the Association for […]

Hatice Aktay, 25 January 2018

Reyhan Gümüşkaya Kaplan, instructor of women’s health, shared her opinions on women’s health seminars held in the Association for Solidarity with Syrian Refugees with the cooperation of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality and Turkish Family Health Foundation.

Which topics did you talk on during the seminars?

The seminars in the Association for Solidarity with Syrian Refugees lasted for six weeks. There were sessions on women’s health, discovering female body, safe motherhood, birth control methods, sexual education of children and adolescents, sanitation and nutrition.

What problems did the refugee women mention the most?

We talked mostly about gynaecological diseases, birth control methods, sanitation and nutrition. Actually, the participants were interested in each topic. Over all, we can say it was a successful educational programme as participating women expressed themselves openly, shared experiences and information on many issues.