“Leaving the house for work— even the feeling of missing my home and my children during work— is exciting for me,” says Halez, a member of the EKİP social cooperative. EKİP brings Syrian and Turkish women together to produce healthy food for the working population in İstanbul’s selected neighbourhoods. Before joining EKİP, Halez had considered the prospect of working to be very unlikely in a large city like İstanbul while taking care of her two small kids.