The members of the youth initiative groups of the Fund "Sukhumi" gathered in the conference hall of Tskaltubo Municipality City Hall.

The participants summarized the results of the projects implemented within the sub-grants and shared their evaluations with each other.

"Our small project laid the foundation for a new initiative in Tskaltubo municipality. The e-petition will give the citizens living in Tskaltubo an opportunity to cooperate with the authorities and present their problems" - this is the assessment of the youth group based in the City Council.

During the presentation of the project, the members of the youth group of the public school No 4 highlighted the main achievements.

According to them, with this small project it will become possible to have a positive impact on the awareness raising of young people and this will help to support women and create a gender-balanced society in the future.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

It can be said that during almost 40 years of journalistic and pedagogical activity, I continuously worked on myself, I read a lot, I studied, I systematically improved my writing culture, I enriched my vocabulary, I worked on the forms of depiction and genre specificity, I followed the development of media and new technologies. It can be said, that I have never demanded to implement the obligations to anyone as strictly as to myself. A journalist, in addition to professional knowledge, is responsible for the protection of ethical standards and constant support of public interests.

My path in the urban and regional press is as follows: at different times I was a correspondent and literary worker of "Kutaisi" newspaper, editor of "Imereti Moambe" department, deputy editor of "Akhali Kutaisi", editor of "P.S.", editor of thematic magazines-newspapers. At the same time, I worked with the youth: in addition to that, I raised generations of young journalists, I was the head of the circle of young journalists of the Student - Youth Palace, I gave lectures at the state and private higher education institutions. Among my students, there are many well-known journalists, editors, or are successfully working in the scientific, creative, pedagogical, public area, in non-governmental organizations, up to 15 of them are the professors, two of them are laureates of "Saba" award for literary achievements, many of them are engaged in successful scientific-creative activities abroad.

Public School of the village Didinedzi. The holidays started, but the members of the youth initiative group came to the school for training.

What is the reason of conflict? What types of conflicts are most common? What is needed for conflict analysis? How to manage conflict? During the training, these questions were answered. There were exercises, games, discussions, examples... in order to make it more interesting, useful and memorable.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

Information meetings, round tables, discussions, research, drawing and essay contests, training on the topic of conflict management were held in the framework of the project. Children arranged a friendship alley in the yard of Koki public school... This is an incomplete list of the activities carried out by the young people.

The project helped to raise awareness of the conflict in the community, helped young people to look at the issue from a different side and deepen their knowledge.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

The projects of the youth initiative groups are coming to an end.

The group members carried out more than 30 interesting and useful activities:

Cleaning and greening actions, information meetings, sport competitions and games, essay contests, workshops and trainings. This is a small list of our active carried out on the initiative of our active children.

The youth clubs of 6 target municipalities: Senaki, Zugdidi, Tsalenjikha, Tskaltubo, Kutaisi and Khoni were involved in the activities:.

Special thanks from the side of the Fund “Sukhumi” to the teachers and administration, who were also actively involved in the implementation of the activities.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

The youth group of Tskaltubo Municipality City Council implemented a new initiative with the support of the mini-project announced within the sub-grants of the Fund "Sukhumi".

The "Online Petition" window is already operating on the website of the municipality.

Using the online petition, the citizens, from the age of 18, living in Tskaltubo can address the self-government and remind about their needs. The first petition has already been registered. The youth group members are the initiators.

It is symbolic that the petition calls for a youth initiative and provides 300 GEL assistance to successful students living in Tskaltubo municipality.

The petition was preceded by meetings with the representatives of the self-government, with the support of which it became possible to activate the mentioned platform.

The project envisaged meetings with the population, various groups of the community. The young people informed the population about the importance and benefits of the online petition.

With their support, it will become possible to establish this initiative in Tskaltubo municipality.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

Meetings with successful women...

Members of the initiative groups met successful women who shared their stories, experience or knowledge with the participants.

Nanuli Tskhvediani, Natalia Khubua, Khatuna Maglakelidze - this is a list of women who have passes a long and difficult way to success and today want to help others.

The project aims to present successful women in municipalities.

The portraits of active women in economics, business, and public activities aroused positive emotions in the participants and created a positive mood, which creates a basis for increasing their motivation.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

This is Matsatso Khakhubia, from Senaki.

He says that each person creates his own success formula. The amount of this formula depends of the amount of people. She created her own success, wrote it with the life she passed.

 She is interested in everything that happens around her. She always has one goal: to change her life for the better until she can!

She says that anyone can become successful. The main thing for this is for people to leave the comfort zone and pass the way, that will lead to success.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. If you want to keep the balance, do not stop, the mistake is precious, because it shows you new opportunities".

She loves handicrafts. She makes necklaces, brooches, felt paintings and other beautiful accessories. She makes everything with love, so these things are exclusive and original. "When I make something, I put my whole soul into it. At first I did not even think about selling it, I just enjoyed it".

"When I presented one of my friends with the necklace I made, at one of the meetings I found out that many people liked it: “where did you buy it”?, “It is so good”, “I would buy it”...

I am Sofiko Kukhalashvili, born in 1992, an IDP from Abkhazia. I live in Khoni. I want to briefly tell you about my small business, which I have done myself. In 2017 I visited the village and my grandmother gave me one small pig, thus my small business started. This little pig, that I had to raise and then kill, was female. When it grew up to 7 months and it was very good, I changed my mind to kill it and decided to breed it…so I did. I made cross-breeding. I had small pigs 4 months after breeding. I was very happy. Somehow their care and patronage became very interesting and enjoyable for me.

Then I decided to start farm business. I was able to make a small building where I housed the pigs. I needed my parents'financial assistance. After arranging this building my success in the farm business started. There was not only one mother pig in this building, but at least 10. Then I started to find out where I could find good pigs to be a successful farmer and get the best results. In addition I had to learn their food ration as well as suitable medicines. I found everything on the internet and learned from farmers, who had more experience in this field.

Periodically we all need psychological relief.

With this reason, Fund "Sukhumi" organized a training with the teachers of Didinedzi school.

Art therapy, role games and tests. This is a small list presented by the psychologist of the Fund "Sukhumi" Manana Gotsiridze.

The women were very pleased and noted that such activities are necessary to feel energy and work with more enthusiasm.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID