Our Foundation’s Newly Built Water Fountain in Africa Entered Into Service

Women in Africa travel an average of 6 kilometers for water. The fate of Kumba, who had to travel every day to bring water to her house, changed with the fountain in front of her house. Kumba is now very happy. She has much more time to spend with her children and family.

As Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, we built a water fountain in Mkwajuni Village of Tanzania in Africa in cooperation with IDEA Universal Association, which carries out innovative and scientific projects to sustainably solve the water, food, energy, and education problems of the world.

Thus, 249 people living in 63 households in Tanzania now have permanent access to clean water. Life in Mkwajuni Village has become easier, equal, and fair.

IDEA Universal Association presented a certificate of appreciation to our Foundation for the donation.

800 Million People in the World Do Not Have Access to Clean Water

Water is vital for every living being. But 800 million people in penurious regions around the world do not have access to clean water. This is a population 10 times the size of Turkey. The vast majority of these people live in rural areas in Asia and Africa and often have to walk for hours for water from streams and lakes that are not even clean.

The journey to carry water, often made by women and children, barefoot, involves dozens of dangers. Attacks by wild animals, the risk of pregnant women losing their babies, and rape are just a few of them. Children cannot build a future for themselves because they have to spend their school time on the water journey. Epidemics afflict these already poor people. Families cannot farm due to a lack of water and cannot produce enough food for themselves. They cannot recover from the cycle of hunger and poverty.

Polluted water takes more lives than all the wars and violence in the world. 43% of these casualties are children under the age of 5. But when we do a water project in a village like this, everything begins to transform. People who access clean water for 12 hours a day from the fountains in front of their houses and schools recover their health, start agriculture, and girls do not have to interrupt their education on special days.

Briefly, water transforms everything.

IDEA Universal (International Development and Environment Association) 

IDEA Universal (International Development and Environment Association) was founded in 2016 by volunteers who dream of a better, fair, egalitarian, and peaceful earth under the leadership of Hayri Dağlı. The IDEA Universal Association, which considers the people living in forgotten geographies struggling with hunger and poverty and the best interests of the environment; has adopted the principles of transparency, participation, accountability, impartiality, and independence as a priority.

It carries out innovative and scientific projects to sustainably solve the world’s water, food, energy, and education problems. It realizes these projects in a need-oriented, permanent, and sustainable manner by acting together with local people. IDEA Universal Association works in cooperation with many international and national non-governmental organizations, including local governments, in its projects and activities. As of 2021, it has provided sustainable clean water, food, energy, education, and income to 200,000 people in Tanzania, Madagascar, Nepal, Senegal, Gambia, and Turkey.
The donations and aid projects mentioned here were made by the founders of our Foundation, Nurten Tatlıcı and her son Uğur Tatlıcı, in memory of the late Salih Tatlıcı, the benevolent person whose name continues to live on through our Foundation and whom they bid farewell in journey to eternity in 2009.

Support to Forgotten Geographies from Salih Tatlıcı Foundation

The Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, founded by deceased businessman Salih Tatlıcı’s wife Nurten Tatlıcı and their son Uğur Tatlıcı, made a donation to IDEA Universal Association, which carries out innovative and scientific projects to solve the world’s water, food, energy and education problems in a sustainable way. Mr. Hayri Dağlı, the founder of the IDEA Universal, presented a certificate of appreciation to our Foundation.

We Will Continue to Support the Journey of Goodness for a Better World

“My late father would have loved establishing a foundation while alive. My mother and I established the Salih Tatlıcı Foundation to fulfill my father’s wish. From now on, we will carry out the aid and support that we personally provide under a more corporate structure through our Foundation. On this occasion, as the Foundation, we wanted to support this journey of kindness that we wish to continue until it touches the last child who cannot access water and food, regardless of language, religion, or race, which produces projects to build a better world and implements these projects in a need-oriented, permanent and sustainable way by acting together with people working locally.” Mr. Uğur Tatlıcı, Executive Board Member of Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, stated regarding the donation.

IDEA Universal (International Association for Development and Environment) 

IDEA Universal (International Association for Development and Environment) was founded in 2016 by volunteers who dream of a better, just, egalitarian and peaceful earth under the leadership of Hayri Dağlı. IDEA Universal Association, which takes care of the people living in forgotten geographies struggling with hunger and poverty, and the high benefit of the environment, has adopted the principles of transparency, participation, accountability, impartiality, and independence as a priority. It carries out innovative and scientific projects to solve the world’s water, food, energy, and education problems in a sustainable way. It implements these projects in a need-oriented, permanent and sustainable way by acting together with the people working locally. IDEA Universal Association cooperates with many international and national non-governmental organizations, including local governments, in its projects and activities. As of 2021, it has provided a total of 200,000 people with sustainable clean water, food, energy, education, and income opportunities in Tanzania, Madagascar, Nepal, Senegal, Gambia, and Turkey.
The donations and aid projects mentioned here were made with the personal income of the founders of our Foundation, Nurten Tatlıcı and her son Uğur Tatlıcı, in memory of the late Salih Tatlıcı, the benevolent person whose name continues to live on through our Foundation and whom they bid farewell in journey to eternity in 2009.