The birth of fitbuddha
fitbuddha was founded in December 2017 in a Turkish village called Alacati. It is a cozy beautiful small town on the Aegean coast opposite Greece near the Turkish city of Izmir. The founder of fitbuddha is Senada Sokollu. A German journalist who lived in Turkey from 2013-2020. Senada was a Turkey correspondent for Deutsche Welle and a reporter for Euronews. Senada reported from the Turkish-Syrian border and from refugee camps in Turkey and Greece. During her reporting, she met refugees fleeing war-torn Syria to Turkey. A time when the European Union decided to keep its doors closed to Syrian refugees.