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Youth Empowerment Program
Empowering Uyghur and Turkic youth to create impactful and sustainable community projects. The Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) is designed to create a supportive platform for youth to address community challenges through sustainable projects. Currently underway with our Turkiye program.
Under the Mulberry Tree
The Contemporary Uyghur Anthology is a collection of Uyghur reflections in diaspora. Volumes I and II are now available for purchase! Keep an eye out next year for call-outs for Volume III.
Our Canvas
An online exhibition dedicated to showcasing the brilliant art, music and literature produced by our own Tarim Network community. Please let us know if you would like to contribute to this project by being featured or by developing a piece on a new artist.
Blog & Forum
Explore our blog and forum for announcements, long form articles, literature from the community, opportunities specific to Uyghur youth, and more!
History Course
A 10-week course briefly covering major time periods in Uyghur history. Classes are discussion-based and informed by weekly readings outlined in the syllabus. We are currently not accepting any students, but feel free to look through our syllabus and complete the readings in your own time.
More projects to support!
Check out the link below to see some amazing projects being carried out by other youth hubs in Turkiye, Kazakhstan and the US.
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Past Projects
Virtual Concerts
We We hosted a number of virtual concerts during Covid lock-downs. Now available on our Youtube channel!
Tarim Seminars
A series of informative seminars by and for the community. Also available to watch on Youtube!
STEM Group
During lockdowns, a group of Uyghur STEM students formed a study group which met for monthly presentations on personal projects or Uyghur-related science.
CESSI Partnership
A collaboration with the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute at the UWM. Volunteers worked as conversation partners for their Uyghur language summer course.
Uyghur Exchange
One of our first initiatives; an online project that allowed people at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels practice their Uyghur language skills with each other and a moderator.
Tarim Connect
A mini project borne from Covid lock-downs. We created five group chats of 15-20 people each so that Uyghur youth across the globe could connect.
Access to Internships (A2I)
A program where we connected with promising Uyghur youth to provide internship opportunities, while aiding them with the application process and throughout the internship, with organisations we partnered with.
Bilingual Book Club
The Tarim Network created a bilingual book club, where each reading had both English and Uyghur translations, and participants could choose to read and discuss in one (or both!) languages.
Standard Uyghur Curriculum
Initially begun to create a comprehensive and standardised Uyghur language curriculum tailored for Uyghur children in the diaspora. However, due to changing demands from the community, we are restructuring our approach to providing language learning materials for the same audience! Please contact us if you would like to provide support.