HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION(SEV)

“The acronym of our Foundation is SEV meaning “love” in Turkish.
This love includes “love for humanity and love of service to human kind.”

The Health and Education Foundation was founded in 1968 by the graduates of the American Board Schools, namely, the American Colleagiate Institute in İzmir, the Tarsus American College and the Üsküdar American Academy. As an institution that takes strength in striving to make Turkey a modern and developing country Atatürk aimed to create, SEV aims to maintain high-quality health and education services that are rooted in more than one hundred years of experience.

SEV is administered by a Board of Trustees  and by a Board of Directors appointed by the Board of Trustees. The members of both boards serve on a voluntary basis.

The enterprises of SEV are the Üsküdar American Academy, the American Collegiate Institute in İzmir, the Tarsus American College, the Üsküdar SEV Elementary School, the İzmir SEV Elementary School, the Tarsus SEV Elementary School, the SEV Printing, Publishing and Education Trading Company, Inc. (SEV-YAY), and the Gaziantep American Hospital.

In 1997, when the new Elementary Education Law was enacted, SEV established the SEV Elementary Schools to carry on at elementary level the more than one hundred years worth of successful educational tradition and service of the American Board High-Schools. The founder of the American Board Schools in İstanbul, İzmir and Tarsus is the American Board (ABH).

The Redhouse Press was restructured as an affiliation of the Health and Education Foundation (SEV) and in 1996, the company acquired the name SEV Printing, Publishing and Education Trading Company, Inc. (SEV-YAY). As the inheritor of the Redhouse dictionaries, SEV-YAY’s primary field of activity is the production of quality Turkish-English and English-Turkish dictionaries.

Established in 1997, the SEV Gaziantep American Hospital is the first modern hospital in the region. In addition to diagnosis and medical treatment, the hospital provides health check-ups, organizes medical training seminars, and maintains service for the betterment of public health. Today, as a non-profit health service facility, the hospital’s sole aim is to provide total health care.