LAVENDER, A SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENTS, WAS HARVESTED – MUĞLA TURNUSOL NEWSPAPER

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Muğla Turnusol Newspaper

The Education, Geriatrics Ecological Agriculture and Tourism (EGET) Foundation, which has realized the first lavender production of the coastal regions, has completed the lavender harvest for the fifth time in Armutçuk Agricultural Enterprise. Lavender seedlings were harvested with sickles so that their oil would be pure and of high quality preventing them to be affected by exhaust gas. Thus, a higher quality lavender oil will be obtained from the lavender to be distilled. Beyond proving that lavender can be grown in coastal cities, EGET Foundation also contributes to awareness in this field by producing lavender oil locally, which is among the products imported by Turkey.

“Muğla has a cosmetics brand and gives hope to low-income students”

Safai Özer, one of the founders of the EGET Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, reminded that the EGET Foundation allocates all its revenues to scholarships for low-income university students, and said, “We utilize the lavender we grow in our Armutçuk Agricultural Enterprise in many ways. In our activity, which we started with the sale of lavender seedlings, our main goal was to produce higher value-added products. We had lavender oil produced in the distillation facilities established by Muğla Metropolitan Municipality. Our country is an importer of almost all plant oils, especially lavender. While thinking about how to utilize lavender oil, we developed lavender-based cosmetic products. This is how the EGETTEN brand was born. Muğla is not only a tourism and agriculture city. Mugla also has a cosmetics brand, which gives hope to low-income students and provides a benefit that Mugla residents can be proud of: Like EGET’s income from other activities, it provides scholarships to low-income students.”

“The pandemic has hit people hard, we will see the effects of this”

Özlem Uzman, one of the Founders of the Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Directors, underlined that all the income of the Foundation is transformed into educational scholarships and said:

“For the fifth time, we have harvested lavender together with good and sensitive people. Thank you very much everyone. The EGET Foundation is a foundation devoted to providing scholarships to low-income students. We are only a 6-year-old foundation; but we were able to provide scholarships to 111 students as of 2020, faster than foundations with a much older history. We sell our lavender as seedlings and in pots, wholesale and retail. In addition, we produce lavender-based cosmetic products from shampoo to tonic, from solid and liquid soap to cream, from cologne to face wash gel with the lavender oil and water we obtain. All of these products are produced under the supervision of the Turkish Ministry of Health. Our initiatives set an example for our country’s companies, farmers, cooperatives and local governments. The epidemic has caused many households to lose income in our country. More students than ever before are at risk of being cut off from education or unable to attend the schools they earn due to lack of income. We are working to reach more students. In this context, the young people of our country need the donations of sensitive citizens even more.”

–EGET Foundation Scholarships: Scholarship applications for a foundation in Turkey are being evaluated on the computer for the first time. EGET Foundation has started a scholarship program with its own capital since its establishment and without any income yet. With the funding of the foundation’s founders, a computer program was created for the first time in Turkey to evaluate and rank scholarship applications completely objectively. The Foundation selects the young people to whom it will grant scholarships through this program, and they are asked to document their statements during the application phase.