Askıda Ne Var Says "#BizdenOlsun" with a Target of 1 Million Meals

Askıda Ne Var Says "#BizdenOlsun" with a Target of 1 Million Meals Offered to Students

Askıda Ne Var, the social initiative that has been providing university students with free products and services such as meals, clothing, computers, books, courses, and theater tickets for 13 years, launched a major goodwill movement with the #BizdenOlsun campaign!

Askıda Ne Var integrated into the cafeteria systems of 37 state universities across Turkey as part of the #BizdenOlsun Project. This allows individuals and organizations to offer a meal for a student at university cafeterias by paying an average of 30 TL. After registering on the Askıda Ne Var website or mobile app, university students can load the meal onto their student IDs and have it for free by scanning their IDs at the university cafeteria turnstiles.

The project, which ensures that students receive the relevant support in complete confidentiality, operates on a system rooted in our social culture — one where "the hand that gives does not see the hand that receives."

While the system ensures that the support a student receives remains confidential, it is designed so that only 1 meal per day can be taken from the tab. Additionally, students who take a meal but do not consume it cannot take another meal until they get new meal credit. This way, the aim is to ensure that meals are distributed equally and fairly.

51.4% of Students Face the Risk of Poor Nutrition During Their Studies
According to research conducted in 2023 by the Turkey Youth NGOs Platform (TGSP), 76.2% of youth in Turkey struggle with financial hardship, and 51.4% believe they have not been able to eat healthily throughout their education.

Askıda Ne Var aims to make a positive contribution to the lives of the youth and to alleviate, to some extent, the financial difficulties they face through the #BizdenOlsun campaign they has launched. Thanks to the project, if a university student takes one meal per day from the tab, they will save an average of 1,000 TL per month. This will both reduce the stress on students and increase their access to opportunities such as attending cultural and arts events, taking courses, and buying more books with the budget they save.

Target: 1 Million Meals
The ultimate goal of the project is to ensure that 1 million meals reach university students free of charge by the end of 2025. On the very first day the widely supported campaign was announced, 200,000 meals were donated.

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To support this great solidarity movement, you can visit www.askidanevar.com and donate as many meals as you wish.

Together, we can build a more equal future for university students — it is within our power!

The #BizdenOlsun fundraising campaign was launched with the permission of the Istanbul Governorship of the Republic of Turkey, dated 17.01.2025, numbered E-87385697-477.99-814349.