Dear Friends,
We hope that our message finds you and your family safe, healthy and well during these challenging and unprecedented times.
This week marked one month of shelter-in-place in the State of California. As we are practicing social distancing, juggling work and home-schooling, and simply getting used to a new normal, our connection to our community is becoming even more important. As we further explore and navigate what it means to be a community organization during this COVID 19 Pandemic, our community members are initiating online book discussions, knitting clubs, folk dances, and social gatherings. These gatherings are making it clearer each day, for each one of us, why and how our community matters, and what really matters in life.
So, on this Earth Day, we are reminded of our connectedness to not just our people communities, but also our physical community, our Earth, and how our individual actions and choices today directly impact us and our own environment tomorrow and for generations to come.
Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of International Children’s Day. As the Bay Area Turkish Society, we brought together images of the past 5 years of Children’s Festivals we hosted for our community in the Bay Area with the hopes that they will bring a smile to your faces and a ray of sunshine to your day.
We wish you a happy, fulfilling, and heartfelt International Children’s Day.
Stay well, and please reach out if there’s anything we can do to help support you.
Warmly,
Bay Area Turkish Society, Board Members
Başak Altan, Başak Çakıcı, Yeşim Erim, Alpay Soyoğuz and Erol Çobanoğlu
