Cooperation Between Alarko Carrier and Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop Taking Aim at Eco-Anxiety

Through cooperation with Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop, events and expert talks will be organized for children and their parents, to facilitate healthy relationships with the nature, and to manage anxieties brought about by the climate crisis.

Alarko Carrier, as the pioneer of the air conditioning industry, introduced a social responsibility project to help cope with the negative consequences of the global climate crisis, and support mitigate the eco-anxieties which hit children hardest. Within the framework of the project to take place in cooperation with the Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop established with pioneering efforts of artist Ceyda Düvenci, workshops for children and expert talks for their parents will be organized for establishing healthy relationships with the nature, and for managing the anxieties caused by the climate crisis. The workshops organized with the slogan “Take good care of the nature, and smile at the future!” will be reaching directly to thousands of children and parents in the first year. For those interested, the detailed program will be announced on the social media accounts of Alarko Carrier and Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop.

Last year Alarko Carrier carried out a study on Climate Literacy levels in Turkey, based on the slogan “Climate is Our Job”. Now, the firm will be implementing a social responsibility project in the light of the data obtained in that study. The study revealed that the global climate crisis caused significant eco-anxiety among children in particular, along with its extensive negative consequences. Based on that finding, Alarko Carried decided to organize workshops for children and expert talks for their parents. The expert talks with parents, to be organized through cooperation with Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop which has Ceyda Düvenci among its founders, will have, on each occasion, an expert from a different field. The primary topics to be covered will include sustainability, better understanding the nature, tips for good and healthy living, recycling of waste materials, and coping with anxiety. the workshops will be held online as well as offline, and will be free for anyone interested.

“We aim to help children translate their anxiety to a positive energy.”

Alarko Carrier’s Chief Executive Officer Cem Akan noted, with reference to the results of the study carried out last year, high levels of anxiety about climate crisis in Turkey. Pointing out substantial levels of “anxiety” in Turkey, in line with the data presented by the scientists, Cem Akan added “more than 85 percent of the participants in the study voiced a number of concerns about the effect of climate change on future generations, drought, increased frequency and effects of pandemics, and the loss of agricultural lands. To boot, more than 70 percent of the participants stated that required measures were not introduced to handle climate-related problems. Perceiving the need for positive energy in terms of accurate management of all these significant concerns and prevention of climate crisis, we opted for cooperation with qualified experts. We are elated to begin a comprehensive project to support the children and their parents in their relationship with the nature, and to help transform their concerns to a source of motivation for action, with the help of the expertise Taş Kağıt Makas Workshop had developed to recognize feelings.

“We have the power to make a difference with our will to positive thinking and our courage.”

Noting her happiness in cooperating with Alarko Carrier in such an extensive project, Ceyda Düvenci underlined their intention to reach out to as many people as possible through workshops for children and expert talks for parents. Düvenci said the workshops and expert talks to be organized on sustainability, better understanding the nature, tips for good and healthy living, recycling of waste materials, and coping with anxiety, with experts from a different field on each occasion, will be free for anyone interested, and will be organized as online as well as offline events.

Düvenci added “we have a point in fearing what we don’t know. We can’t know the future. However, we are well aware of the healing power, force, and beauty of the nature. We also have the ability for achieving change for the better, positive thinking and our courage, to best the fears we have for the future of the nature. Life is beautiful in spite of all, and we have the power to make a difference.”