Projects in education, dialogue, social responsibility and humanitarian aid from Türkiye to Africa, along with travel notes and book summaries.https://akifcevik.com/enAkif Çevik60https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/varsayilan.jpghttps://akifcevik.com/en/https://akifcevik.com/en/living-together-and-dialogue-on-noahs-ark-in-maastricht/https://akifcevik.com/en/living-together-and-dialogue-on-noahs-ark-in-maastricht/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/avrupa-birliginin-dogdugu-maastrichtte-nuhun-gemisinde-birlikte-yasama-ve-diyalog.jpg" alt="Two guests in conversation aboard Noah's Ark" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>On the evening of Thursday 9 July 2026, in Maastricht, capital of the Dutch province of Limburg, I joined our Dutch friends aboard the symbolic Noah's Ark (Ark van Noach) sailing on the Maas, for a gathering organised for the first time by Stichting...</p>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTEducation & DialogueAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/from-education-to-humanitarian-aid-a-journey-in-tanzania/https://akifcevik.com/en/from-education-to-humanitarian-aid-a-journey-in-tanzania/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/tanzanyada-egitimle-baslayan-yolculugun-insani-yardimla-devam-eden-hikayesi.jpg" alt="A hall filling up for the documentary screening" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Some journeys in life keep the warmth of their first day in your heart no matter how many years pass. And some memories do more than recall the past; years later they come back to you and show how the good you did has grown...</p>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/a-journey-through-history-and-memory-in-tirana-albania/https://akifcevik.com/en/a-journey-through-history-and-memory-in-tirana-albania/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/arnavutluk-tiranada-tarih-hafiza-ve-gonul.jpg" alt="Tirana's main square with the Albanian flag" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>The Balkans are not simply a place on the map. They are a deep basin of civilisation where memory, faith and human values are woven into one another. Between 17 and 19 April 2026 my road led me...</p>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTravelAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/the-global-value-of-food-and-the-conscience-of-humanity/https://akifcevik.com/en/the-global-value-of-food-and-the-conscience-of-humanity/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/gidanin-kuresel-degeri-ve-insanligin-vicdani.jpg" alt="People posing with the produce in their hands" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>World Food Day is a global day of awareness marked every year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945.</p>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/a-bicycle-that-became-hope/https://akifcevik.com/en/a-bicycle-that-became-hope/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/yasatma-idealiyle-umut-olan-bir-bisiklet.jpg" alt="Bicycles decorated with ribbons beneath a Bicycle Project banner" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Ubuntu, one of Africa's deep rooted values, puts human interdependence, empathy, respect and solidarity at the centre of life. "I am because we are"...</p>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifeAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/a-drop-of-water-growing-hope-through-ubuntu/https://akifcevik.com/en/a-drop-of-water-growing-hope-through-ubuntu/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/bir-damla-su-yasatma-ideali-ve-ubuntu-dusuncesiyle-umudlari-yesertmek.jpg" alt="A child carrying water containers" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>This article was written about the importance of touching the lives of people who need clean drinking water, in the spirit of Ubuntu and the ideal of keeping others alive. Thank you to every volunteer.</p>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/the-ubuntu-project-from-new-zealand-to-africa/https://akifcevik.com/en/the-ubuntu-project-from-new-zealand-to-africa/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/yeni-zellandadan-afrikaya-ubuntu-projesi.jpg" alt="Ubuntu: I am because we are" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Today, with the means of communication and travel that draw time and place together, what the old phrase calls "the nearness of time, the nearness of place", results can come quickly. With a sense of social responsibility...</p>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTLifeAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/an-entrepreneurship-competition-in-uganda/https://akifcevik.com/en/an-entrepreneurship-competition-in-uganda/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/ugandada-girisimcilik-proje-yarismasi.jpg" alt="Group photograph of the participants in the Light Academy Alumni Association Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2022" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Organised by the alumni community of Uganda Light Academy, in line with the "Uganda Vision 2040" policy that sets out a perspective for the country's future...</p>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTEducation & DialogueAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/orphans-and-orphan-education-in-uganda/https://akifcevik.com/en/orphans-and-orphan-education-in-uganda/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/ugandada-yetimler-ve-yetim-egitimi.jpg" alt="Children holding out their bowls at a meal distribution" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>🌹 In our projects and work with orphans in Uganda, if we can ease the sorrow in a single orphan's eyes we count ourselves fortunate...</p>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTEducation & DialogueAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/a-few-words-on-social-responsibility/https://akifcevik.com/en/a-few-words-on-social-responsibility/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/sosyal-sorumluluk-bilinci-uzerine-birkac-kelam.jpg" alt="Children queuing with their bowls" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Responsibility is the most important value of being alive.</p>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/clean-drinking-water-project-in-uganda/https://akifcevik.com/en/clean-drinking-water-project-in-uganda/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/ugandada-temiz-icme-suyuna-ulasma-projesi.jpg" alt="A young man filling a container from the water beside a field" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>Through the Nile Humanitarian Aid Foundation's well drilling project in Uganda, we are working to bring people hope and health. As the Uganda Nile Humanitarian Development Agency...</p>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/a-visit-to-nakivale-refugee-settlement-uganda/https://akifcevik.com/en/a-visit-to-nakivale-refugee-settlement-uganda/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/uganda-nakivale-multeci-kampi-ziyareti.jpg" alt="Project signs at the roadside" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>According to 2022 figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of people forced to leave their homes worldwide has passed 100 million.</p>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTSocial ResponsibilityAkif Çevikhttps://akifcevik.com/en/an-african-proverb/https://akifcevik.com/en/an-african-proverb/<p><img src="https://akifcevik.com/assets/og/bir-afrika-atasozu.jpg" alt="Three African women wearing traditional beaded jewellery" width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>An African proverb says:</p>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTLifeAkif Çevik