From Breakfast Table to Helping Campaign

Breakfast is the best meal of the day. It is as important as a refreshing sleep to start the day. If you are alone, you just past over the first meal of the day. But if you have a company for breakfast, breakfast is the reason to wake up happily in the morning.

The Turkish breakfast is more than a meal for Turkish-American women who had discovered the relationship of breakfast with happiness. Turkish breakfast times are special times to strength the friendship, to learn different cultures, to have friendly conversations. For Turkish women and their American friends these are the times to share a smile, to talk about helping organizations while having a cup of Turkish Coffee.

TCC (Turkish Cultural Center) Syracuse Women’s Club members welcomes their American friends each month within the framework of the "meet your neighbors" activity. Women have a chance to see a Turkish family breakfast tradition while having a Turkish tea/coffee and warm conversation.

The friendly atmosphere during these breakfast let these women to talk about helping organizations and campaigns. They had organized a bake sale for the famine victims in Africa, and they had dressed up Burmese families in Syracuse. The next topic in their agenda is helping Sandy victims.

These monthly breakfast activities, allows for the development of friendships.  The participants said that, they had welcomed by Turkish women and had a wonderful time in an sincere environment and they were looking forward to future breakfast.