Description of organisation

Since 1981, As one of the most rooted folk dance foundation, we, Anatolian Folklore Foundation (AFF), can present 22 different folk dances within its dancer network. We have trained approximately 9.340 young people to date. With this sense, we aim to keep this local culture alive and sustain its development and popularity among local people while presenting this culture to international arena with its wealthy content.
Our Foundation continues its activities in order to investigate the sources of folk culture in every stage of Turkish History, to address the traditional cultural values of our people and to ensure that our people build a solid bridge from the past to the future.
With 38 years of experience, we are actively working in all fields under the title of folk culture. At the same time, we play a pioneering role in preserving and transferring folk culture to future generations.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Cultural differences
• Educational difficulties
• Geographical obstacles