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1. Social Services
Provincial Social Directorate, being structured as a provincial organization of the Turkish Social Service and Child Protection Institute Directorate General, carries on its activities regarding social services pursuant to the Law no: 2828. The aim of the service is; to prevent the spiritual, material and social deprivation of children, disabled, aged and other persons who are dependent and meeting the needs of them and preventing and resolving the social problems which might occur regarding those people.
In the basic service approach of the Social Services, cooperation and activation of social dynamics oriented understanding is predominant. This cooperation compasses all the related institutions, Ngo’s and voluntary contributions and participations from every segment of the society. The social dynamics refer to the activation of the potential that is available in our society for generating solutions regarding the existing problems.
We have 11 institutions appertained to Samsun Provincial Directorate of Social Services.
1.1. Süleyman Yançatoral Kindergarten
Our institution has a capacity of 250 children and we give service to dependent children between 0-12 age group. The number of actual children whose care is taken is 223. And 17 more children are to come
1.2. Yaşar Doğu Boys’ Orphanage
This institution has a capacity of 120 for teenagers between 13+18 age group and 144 children and teenagers are nursed and under protection. Moreover we have 18 more teenagers to come.
1.3. Samsun Girls’ Orphanage
Our institution has a capacity of 50. It gives service to 73 dependent girls from between 13+18 age group. There are 10 girls to come.
1.4. Havza Rest Home and Rehabilitation Centre
Our institution has a capacity of 100. 30 of this capacity are reserved to aged person and 70 to disabled. Our institution currently has 31 aged persons and 68 disabled. There isn’t any aged person in queue. There are 6 disabled persons to come.
1.5. 75. Yıl Bafra Rest Home
Our institution that has a capacity of 46 is completely full. It serves to aged persons over the age of 60 and who have social and economic deprivation. Now we have 46 aged persons and 5 are to come.
1.6. Women’s Guest House
Our institution who has a capacity of 24 persons, serves as a shelter for women and, if any, their children who were violated physically, emotionally, psycho-socially and economically, to meet their needs where they can stay temporarily during the resolution of their problems. Currently, 9 women and 3 children benefits from this service.
1.7. Children and Youth Centre
In this centre, that operates in the 19 Mayıs neighbourhood, Saadet Street in our Province, works on projects for children that are living and working in the streets are done. The institutions primary goal is to ensure that the street-kids, that are starting to be a big problem in our city, complete their education and return to their families. Samsun governorship has made a protocol with 19 Mayıs University and Directorate of Metropolitan Municipality in the level of the management of services in the Centre. 269 children and teenagers benefit from the service in the Centre
1.8. Samsun and Gaziosmanpaşa Community Centres
One of the two community services attained to the Directorate carries on its activities in Yaşar Doğu neighbourhood, and the other in Gaziosmanpaşa. In the community centre that is established in the Yaşar Doğu Neighbourhood gave service to 366 persons this year, and Gaziosmanpaşa Community Centre gave service to 377 persons.
1.9. Community Centres
These are institutions that are commissioned to and responsible from providing in completeness, the protective, preventive, educational, developmental guidance and rehabilitation services for creating sociable, productive and independent individuals, that can deal with the problems that occur as a result of rapid social changes, urbanization and migration, and do this in coordination and cooperation with public institutions and organizations, public authorities, universities, non-governmental organizations.
Because our province is regarded as a Metropolitan City and because economic problems have a negative effect on the social life, there is a need for more Community Centres.
What is aimed at the first stage is to increase the number of Community Centres to five. Community Centres that will surround Samsun from west to east are respectively; (Canik) Yaşar Doğu, (Gazi) Çatalarmut, (İlkadım) Hastanebaşı (İlkadım) ve Atakum. One of these Community Centres that is in the Yaşar Doğu Neighbourhood has been completed in 2001, and the one in the Gaziosmanpaşa Neighbourhood in 2002. Community Centres in the other places require for completion; personnel (social worker, psychologist) sufficient in quantity to be appointed.
1.10. Family Counselling Centre
The Family Counselling Centre that were opened in January 2003, gives protective, preventive, educational, developmental guidance and rehabilitation services as well as counselling and guidance services, with an aim to help protect, support the family life and help in the solutions of problems in it.
From the opening to this day, there have been 280 applications. In addition, events concerning; 8 March International Women’s Day, Family Week and women’s problems are actualized intensively with the initiation of our institution.
1.11. Samsun Rest Home, Care and Rehabilitation Centre
Our institution’s rest home section, being opened to service on 09 June 2006, has a capacity of 60, and the disabled section has a capacity of 50. The acceptation is still continuing and currently we have 62 aged persons and 39 disabled persons.
2. Other Services
2.1. Adoption
As of 2007, 62 families are in the line for adoption and the queue period can change according to the gender and the age that is required by the family, of the child that is going to be adopted. According to the data from the year 2006, the period of queue is 4,5 (four and a half) years.
In the year 2004, 11 children consisting of 6 girls and 5 boys were adopted.
In the year 2005, 16 children consisting of 8 girls and 8 boys were adopted.
In the year 2004, 11 children consisting of 6 girls, 5 boys were adopted.
In the year 2006, 18 children consisting of 9 girls, 9 boys were adopted.
2.2. Foster Parents
Currently 36 children is getting foster parents service by 34 families. And this is a waged service.
2.3. Relief Goods and Financial Aid
As of 2007 March, 204 children were given financial aid. Moreover in the same year, 150 children were given the relief goods aid consisting of clothing and stationery.
3. Private Institutions Subject to Supervision
3.1. Private Kindergarten and Day-Care Homes
We have 25 Private Kindergarten and Day-Care Homes, 24 in our province that are subject to the supervision of our Directorate and 1 in Bafra District.
4. New Formations
4.1. Protection, Care and Rehabilitation Centre
Pursuant to the Law no. 5395 regarding the Child Protection, the execution of the measures concerning counselling and care is appointed to the Society for the Protection of the Children. According to the mentioned Law, the children who need protection and the children, dragged into crime without any penalty, should be housed to the boarding care institutions attained to the Society for the Protection of the Children Directorate General. In a situation where the housing of the above mentioned children to the day care centres and dormitories attained to Turkish Social Service and Children Protection Institution, the other children that were not dragged into the crime started to behave in a negative way and may sometimes be directed towards crime.
In addition, it is observed that such children don’t stay in the kindergartens and dormitories and they usually have intention towards escape. Opening Centres for Protection, Care and Rehabilitation of such children is planned by the Ministry which Society for the Protection of the Children and our Directorate is attained to. A commission about this subject was established in our Province, and the works towards opening the institution is in progress.
4.2. Affection Home
A healthy child development is only possible when the child is near a family and acting according to this principle, our Directorate has adopted in principle that the children who need protection should primarily benefit from the Foster Parents, Adoption and Relief Goods and Financial Aid. However, if neither of these measures, does not produce a solution, as a last resort, institutional care is preferred. Institutional Care is a congregate care model in our country where many children are collected under the same roof. Although these institutions are furnished close to the home environment, they are not sufficient. Recently, our Directorate have plans towards going through new models and opening to service new institutions in that direction. Between these projects, we have a project called Compassion Houses instead of institutional care where in this model the child care is provided in small units different than institution and structures more similar to that of a family environment and there are small buildings in a kind of a housing complex. For establishing institutions like this in this aim our Province needs a terrain.
4.3. Construction of a New Girls’ Orphanage
There are some problems in the formation of the 0-12 age group children that grow in Süleyman Yançatoral Kindergarten to Samsun Girls’ Orphanage when they grew up because it works over its capacity and they are queued for this reason. Therefore these girls stay until the age of 15 in the kindergarten, and this may give rise to some problems in terms capacity and the difference of age between children and teenagers. The construction and the opening to service of the new Girls’ Orphanage will help diminish the problems regarding this issue.
4.4. Community Centres
With Gaziosmanpaşa and Samsun (Yaşar Doğu) Community Centres who continue their works regarding Community Centres, we are working on expanding the Community Centres in Çatalarmut, Cedit and Atakum.
5. Labour
Labour force participation rate on the age of 12 or above, in the Samsun Province, is 59%, and it varies depending on the gender. Labour force participation rate for male population being 71%, is 48% for female population.
Rate of the labour force participation of the male population being 83%, in the Province centre is 61%, in the District centres 58%. In the Arsacık Province labour force participation rate for male population is in its maximum level with 67% and in Kavak it is in its minimum level with 51%.
Labour force participation rate for women varies according to the locality. In villages, every 84 woman out of 100 is in the labour power however, this rate becomes 18% in Province, and 13% in the districts.
The age and gender structure of the population is a factor that has effects on the labour force participation level. Labour force participation rates of women and men population actualize in different levels depending on the age factor.
According to the data taken in 2000 by State Institute of Statistics, the population and the Labour force condition is such;
The civil population that are not corporate 344.000,
• The population aged 15 or less 255.000,
• Labour power condition 103.000
• Employed personnel 93.000
• Unemployed 10.000 persons.
For the ones that are not in the labour power,
• The ones that look for a job but do not use job search channels 4000,
• The ones that do not look for a job but are ready to work 2000,
• The ones that work seasonal 1000 persons.
When men and women are distinguished;
• Workable non-corporate civil male population 122.000,
• Employed ones 73.000,
• Unemployed ones 6000 persons.
• Workable non-corporate civil female population 133.000,
• Employed ones 20.000,
• Unemployed ones 4.000 persons.
In the period between the years 1980-2000, labour force participation rate in the Province of Samsun was decreased continuously. Labour force participation rate of the male population is more than female labour-force participation.
While in the year 1980 male labour force participation rate was 82,8%, this rate diminished to 70,5% in the year 2000. In the same period female labour force participation rate diminished from 61,6% to 48%.
6. Employment
The ratio of the employed population to the labour force of the population is 93% for men and 94% for women.
The structure according to economic activity of the population that is employed varies depending o the locality and the economic activity. This ratio is more than the ratios in Villages with 73% in Provincial Centre, 62% in the Districts. This ratio, while the male population that is employed in the field of agriculture is 46% in the general Province, is higher in Villages with 78%.
The distribution of the employed female population according to the economic activities shows a different structure than male population. 86% of the employed female population is in agriculture sector. While nearly all the employed female population in Villages work in the agriculture sector, most of the employed female population in the city work in the services sector.
46% of the employed population, work as unsalaried family employee. This ratio being 81% for women is 19% for men. 41% of male population and13 % of female population work as a salaried employee.
The female population ratio that works for their own account is very low with 5% however, 36% of the male population work for their own account.
The quantity of the persons that were employed in the Province of Samsun was continuously increasing in the 1980-1990 period however in the 1990-2000 period it decreased. The annual acceleration of the employed population in this period is 3,8 per thousand. The acceleration that is seen in the employed population can change according to the gender. The acceleration of the male population in the employment is 5,4 per thousand, while this ratio for female population is 1,8 per thousand.
In the period between the years 1980–2000, the share of the persons within the agriculture sector that has the highest portion in the total employment has decreased continuously. The share of the services sector, that has the second highest portion in the total employment, has shown a continuous growth in the same period. While there have been a little acceleration in the ratio of the employments in the construction sector, there haven’t been an important change in the industry sector.
In the period between the years 1980-2000, the population that was employed in the construction and industry sector accelerated respectively 90,2% and 25,7% and 3,8%, the population employed in the agriculture was decreased by 8,1%.
The sectoral dispersion of the employed people in the period between the years 1980-2000 showed discrepancies related to gender and a continuous decrease in both genders’ share in the agriculture sector can be observed. However, in both genders an important increase can be observed in the rate of the employment in the services sector, this increase is more visible in women. The women and men that were employed in the year 2000 worked intensively in the agriculture sector; women with a rate of 86,4% and men with 45,9%.
If the work of the employed people in the period between the years 1980-2000 is to be analysed, it can be observed that a decrease in both genders’ rate in an agricultural job had occurred however, the rate of all the other occupational groups had been increased.
While in the year 1980 the rate of the people working in an agricultural job was 74,2% this rate got down to 63,4% in the year 2000. In this period the rate of the administrative personnel was increased such as; in the year 1980 it was 2,1%, in the year 200 it increased to 4,2%.
In the year 2000, 46% of the employed people were unwaged family employees, 28,9% waged and 23,1% work for their own account and 2% as employers. The dispersion of the employees as per to their condition in work shows important discrepancies depending on the gender. 81% of the women work as unwaged family employees however, the rate of the men working for their own account is much more than the rate of the women.
7. Unemployment
In the one week before the population census in the year 2000, the people that doesn’t work in a place or doesn’t have any relation with a job and the people who attempted to have a job at least once in the last 3 months, in other words the rate of unemployment is 6,6%. This rate in male population is 7,2% and in female population 5,9%.
Unemployment rate is higher in Districts than in Provincial Centres. This rate is 20,5% in the Districts and 17% in Provincial Centres and 0,6% in Villages.
The unemployment rate of female population is higher than the ones of the male population in the districts and Provincial Centres however; in the Villages the unemployment rate of male population is higher than the same rates of female population. The unemployment rate in the Provincial Centres for women is 30,8%, for men 12,8%, in the Districts the same rate for women is 36%, for men 16,9%, in the villages the same rate for women is 0,4%, for men 0,8%. The majority of the unemployed population is constituted from young population. 64% of the unemployed population is under the age of 30.
In the population census in the year of 2000, unemployment data was collected based on international definitions. According to this, the unemployment rate in the Province of Samsun is 6,6%. This rate shows that every 7 person out of 100 in labour power is unemployed.
In the period between the years 1980-2000, the ratio of the population in the Province of Samsun that is not included in the labour power, to the population that is in the workable age has increased continuously, and in this period the annual acceleration rate of the population that is excluded from the labour power has been 32,3 per thousand.
In the year 2000, the women constitute 66% of the population that is excluded from the labour power.
The rate of the housewives, who have the biggest share in the total unemployed female population, has decreased in the period between the years 1980-2000, however this ratio is still high with a rate of %63,8.
The rate of the retired people in the population that is not involved in the labour force in the period between the years 1980-2000, an increase can be seen in both genders. In this period, the increase in the retired female population is higher than the increase in the rate of retired male population.
8. Works of Turkish Employment Agency Provincial Directorate
As of the 2007 January, 473 persons have been recruited to the Turkish Employment Agency Provincial Directorate of Samsun; 406 persons to public section, 67 persons to private sector.
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