Raindrop Turkish House is a non-profit educational, charitable, social and cultural organisation founded by Turkish-Americans in Houston in 2000 and now operating in six states: Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and New Mexico. Next to being a home to Turkish-Americans, Raindrop Turkish House addresses their social and cultural needs and helps them integrate into this multicultural society better. The mission of Raindrop is to introduce Turkish culture into American society and cultivate friendship and promote the understanding of diverse cultures through its unique services to the community, through dialog and cooperation. There is an annual Turkic Cultures and Children’s Festival and a Turkish Language and Culture Olympiad with participating communities from Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, The Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan as well as Turkey.