Refugee Children

Helping Syrian refugees to build a new life in Turkey

With more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees seeking shelter in neighbouring Turkey, one of the main challenges is overcoming the language barrier. Turkcell’s Hello Hope app helps refugee children and their families to learn Turkish so they can integrate into their new communities.

Hello Hope contains Turkish vocabulary cards, instant speech translation between Turkish and Arabic, guidance on registration, schools, pharmacies and other essential services, daily news in Arabic, education videos and access to Turkcell’s Arabic language call centre – all available from a mobile device.

Around half of Syrian refugees believe Turkey will be their home for the next five years and over 500,000 young Syrians remain out of education. Turkcell’s Hello Hope app is already helping more than one million people as they set up home in a new country, with 550 million Turkish vocabulary cards viewed and 15 million uses of the speech translation feature.

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