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Fatma Yardimsever Hakalmaz
Who is Fatma?
Fatma Yardimsever Hakalmaz was born in Karaman, Turkey. From the age of five, she has lived in Belgium. She is married and has two boys. She received her secondary e...view moreWho is Fatma?
Fatma Yardimsever Hakalmaz was born in Karaman, Turkey. From the age of five, she has lived in Belgium. She is married and has two boys. She received her secondary education in a Catholic school in Antwerp. After she read a course in Law in the University of Antwerp for three years. While she was studying there, she worked with lawyers as a Sworn Translator of the Court. As a student, she helped in setting up and coordinating diverse associations like the European Association of Turkish Academics, the Association of Turkish and Belgian students, the Turkish Union in Antwerp and the Anatolian Theatre group in Antwerp.
She has coordinated many multi-cultural and multi-religious projects, for this she worked with the City of Antwerp, Province of Antwerp, Unesco, de Acht, Proleron bis , High school in Brussels. Some of the projects were: “ De buren vieren feest” ( 1996), Mano Mundo Festival( 1997), Benefit concert for Turkey(1999), portival 2002, Vasten tradities in Antwerpen ( 1999-2000), Droom van een eigen zaak 2012, Allochtoon ondernemen 2013.
After marriage, she played with her husband for four years in Anatolian Theatre Group. She featured in the plays “Töre 2002”, “Kanli Nigar 2003” and “Gilgamesh” 2004. Since 2004 she has been running a fashion house “The Wo-men Art Gallery”. She has her own designs under this label. With this fashion house, she participated in many Beauty contests, like The Miss African contest in Belgium, Miss Nigeria Belgium, Miss Maghreb and Miss alma. In most of these fashion shows she styled and costumed the mannequins and she was also among the jury.view less