Gulberenk Values Education Association is a non-governmental organization which is working for the purpose of keeping our national, moral and spiritual values alive and all its services, activities and educational programs are for free. Gulberenk Production, is the financial operation of Gulberenk Values Education Association. Our finance department operates in order to improve Gulberenk’s services, to meet the expenses of our association and to ensure the continuing growth of our services. We launched Gulberenk Songs in four albums, in October 2015. In doing so, we felt the joy of producing something that would, plus, bring income to our association, as well as, an educational material that would serves our activities and moral values. Moreover, no volunteer had the tendency to claim on this work. In other words, Gulberenk Production does not belong to a person and is not established for personal profit. Therefore, no one experiences any loss or gains profit from the album sales. All profit and loss belongs to the Gulberenk Values Education Association. For this reason, for the benefit of Gulberenk in mind we have opposed from the very beginning, the copying and reproduction of the work and this preference is openly stated on each CD. Everyone, including the members of the board of directors and the chairman of the association, buys the albums on a predefined price.
In this way, more than twenty thousand CDs have been delivered to our children in one and a half years with the efforts of our devoted members. For those who do not have the opportunity, we will always have a serious quota for them, that is, we give away some of our CDs as gifts. Those who believe in the benefits of our work respect our purposes and buy our CDs, this way, our volunteers support our target to access educators and children to work. Thereby, the institution finds the opportunity to regain the capital it has spent for the emergence of the work, to pay its taxes comfortably, to meet its expenses without any need for it, to take action for new projects and to increase the services of the association. Our Board of Directors is not only responsible for merely working for the sake of Allah but also takes over the role to try to protect the rights of the works.
Another important issue is:
From the very beginning, in principle, we do not want our children to listen to these songs with irrelevant images taken from the cartoons, but by closing their eyes. Because for years, we have witnessed how much the imagination of our children, who are exposed to troubling images, have come down to the lower levels, how they are not able to play on their own and create their own works.
The children of Gulberenk can close their eyes and open the eyes of their hearts, feel the words of the songs in their hearts. We want them to be able to imagine all kinds of things far from belligerent scenes. Images freed from limits. If we believed that visually supported video broadcasts were very necessary, we would undoubtedly break away from ourselves and do what was necessary; but we base ourselves on the discoveries of children, their inner realms. Therefore, we focus on audio broadcasts. For the same reason, there are only a few voices that we prepare for children. Our goal is not millions of people to sit and look at us and watch what we do, but we want our believers, to discover themselves, to feel, to comprehend, to be sensitive, kind, vigilant, productive and qualified believers. For this reason, we produce our works not according to the demand of the majority, not according to what they really need. We think that children of our age need not to watch more and more, but they need to listen more and live. We always give this very answer to those who ask why our CDs do not include images. For all these reasons, we ask for the removal of some videos with images and cartoons attached to our songs, which we believe are done with good intentions, these are all prepared and published without any permission, without our permission and information. We would also like to thank those who have fulfilled our demand. As you would appreciate, getting to know and getting acquainted is perhaps the least success people reach in short time in this world. In fact, only Allah knows who wins, who loses. We are all obliged to continue to do what we have accomplished and to continue to take the steps we believe in. We are always open to all those who want to be our partners and wish to discuss with us in terms of consultancy. Consultancy, we believe, is a unique blessing that encourages sisterhood and brings all other beauties.
We greet all those who have devoted their lives to Allah and his path, and wish you happiness in both worlds. Respectfully …
Gulberenk Production and in the name of Gulberenk Values Education Association Board of Directors Educator and Author
Neslihan Nur TURK (UYANIK)