Our association, founded in 2021, focuses on supporting disadvantaged groups, particularly persons with disabilities and their families. Its main objectives are to foster social integration, encourage participation in cultural and social activities, and provide education through interactive and practical methods. The organization carries out various activities such as advisory services, cultural and educational programs, rehabilitation and recreational events, and interest-based group activities like literature and dance. It also promotes lifelong learning, organizes visits to historical and cultural sites, and teaches handicraft skills to empower its target groups.

SAMDER aims to conduct multifaceted research on the rapid changes brought by the new era to social life, develop and implement original projects to enhance the use of practical sociology in Türkiye, and provide sociological data to social policy makers, academic circles, and other stakeholders. Its main fields of study include disability and the challenges faced by relatives of the disabled, the importance of sociology and sociologist employment, protective law and mediation, migration, violence and crime, victim rights, children at risk, human rights and children’s rights promotion, rehabilitation services in the penal system, the impact of globalization on the family, domestic violence, and issues in education such as risk, violence, and equal opportunity.