MERYEM ABDURRAHIM GIZER ORTA OKULU, Adana, Turkey

The  school is a secondary school  for children aged between 12-15 in Adana, which is the fifth biggest city of Turkey with about over 2.000.000 inhabitants and it  is situated in the south part of Turkey. It is a fabulous and peaceful city that has a great climate all year, but its city centre is always busy, noisy and full of people.

This  school which has got almost 2050 students  and 106 teaching staff is considered to be one of the biggest schools in the city. The pupils belong to different social classes and national minorities. The school is helping them to meet, mix and get united as here they have the opportunity to work together, socialize, cooperate expressing their inner potentialities. One of the ways of ensuring to achieve this goal is involving schoolchildren in non-formal education, especially in project making where individual expression and creativity can operate freely. The school is open to and supports all the initiatives of students' active participation in various kinds of projects.