The Women Fund "Sukhumi" held a round table meeting with participation of local referral entities in the conference – hall of Terjola City Council.

The meeting was attended by members of the Gender Equality Council of the City Council, representatives of the City Hall, social services and the police. The participants of the meeting spoke about violence prevention and victim protection, about social partnership. There was a presentation of a Women Fund "Sukhumi" research on monitoring of services for victims of violence. Emphasis was placed on the problem of violence and the prospects for cooperation with local structures.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

On July 14, representatives of the USAID and the US Embassy Mr. Giorgi Khechinashvili - Senior Advisor of Youth Programs and Mr. Anton Cooper, Political Officer of the US Embassy visited the head office of the Fund "Sukhumi" in Kutaisi.

The guests heard information about the activities of the organization and the work carried out by partner organizations, about the activities carried out within the framework of the project so far. The participants also talked about the existing challenges and successes... about positive changes achieved by the initiative groups created by the Fund "Sukhumi" in the municipalities with the support of the USAID.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

Kobuleti Women Support Center held information meetings in the villages. The participants emphasized the need to spread information in the peripheries.

Social problems, women's needs, increased facts of family conflicts - while talking about these topics, new cases of violence were identified at the meetings held in the villages Khurcha, Koki, Kakhati - Zugdidi Municipality.

Kindergartens should become a source of identification of family conflicts, this segment should be fully informed - this opinion was announced at the meeting held by Samtredia Women's Support Center, which was attended by kindergarten educators and teachers.

The work of the women support centers is aimed at prevention of cases of domestic violence and effective management of identified cases..

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

The Fund “Sukhumi” has been cooperating with the public school of the village Koki for a long time. For the given moment, with the support of the USAID and the Fund "Sukhumi", young people implemented a small project "Remember Abkhazia", ​​within the framework of the mentioned project, they have implemented many interesting activities.

It was said much about the benefits this project has brought to the beneficiaries and now we would like to share the emotions of the participants directly...

" It was a new experience for several young people involved in this project.

In general, I have never been active, but after taking this step, everything has changed for the better, I often participate in various types of events and I am very happy to be involved in the implementation of this project.

Khoni public school No 3 has extremely active children...

Their project - "Ecology and healthy lifestyle" was finished.

The youth initiative group held a summary meeting, where they held a project presentation, talked about the obtained results and implemented activities.

Information meetings with students of other schools, a round table with representatives of the city council, a bicycle marathon, greening and cleaning actions were held in the framework of the project...

The project contributed to the dissemination of information about healthy life and ecology in society.

The project is implemented with the support of the USAID

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

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

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.

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