The bakad LGBTQ+ Support Hotline is looking for its volunteers! Our registration forms and pamphlets were completed over the last week, and we circulated them through bakad’s social media pages today. We are very excited to see what kind of turn out we will get. Information on the hotline will be available permanently on bakad’s website soon as well. We are also in contact with numerous other NGO’s in Turkey to circulate the news for us, on their social media.

This week we also interviewed some social workers, one of whom is a sociologist who was very enthusiastic about helping us, and we made some headway in purchasing the electronics for the community center before I travel to Turkey on June 1st. It is finals week at UChicago so progress is slow right now, but more updates to follow on both accounts!