16 day campaign against gender violence started. In the first day of campaign the action was held in Khoni. The action was attended by the activists of Women Support Centers and the youth club, members of the Club of Women voters.
The action was joined by the representatives of local self-government, who actively cooperate with our organization.
Stop Violence! Woman Has Right to Be Happy! – with similar slogans, but without words the participants expressed protest against violence towards the women.
The annual international informational campaign "16 active days against violence towards the women" Started.
In recent years, the campaign is carried out with the slogan "From peace in the home - to peace in the world."
This year fund "Sukhumi" has a face of campaign - the winner of Georgia Super League 2015-2016 - basketball club "Kutaisi - 2010". Hundreds of leaflets, calendars were printed.
Fund "Sukhumi" - 6 Women's Support Centers, 8 Club of Women-Voters, 3 Gender Advisory Councils, 6 youth clubs, forum-theater – will conduct hundreds of events in towns and villages of West Georgia in frames of 16 day campaign.
Originally, young people joined the international campaign of "16 days against violence against women" with bicycles. On Khurcha-Koki bike race participated boys and girls from Khurcha, Koki, Orsantiya (Zugdidi Municipality) and Nayui96evi (Gali Municipality). So they expressed protest against gender violence.
Participants were handed over certificates, and the two winners in the competition of slogans were given symbolic prizes and diplomas.
The event was held in frames of the Women's Support Center Small Project in Khurcha / Koki "Youth Against Violence".
On April 21 Women's initiative group of the Fund "Sukhumi" in Kutaisi, in the courtyard of the Literary House-Library named after Andria Sinauri organized an action on cleaning and gardening. The action was supported by the administration of the Kutaisi Botanical Garden, which allocated decorative seedlings.
The event involved student - volunteers, employees of various libraries of the city, as well as the Fund "Sukhumi".
In the literary house-library there is a pleasant atmosphere for holding cultural meetings and other interesting events. The fund “Sukhumi” has already planned activities of various types.
The action was held in frames of the International Day of Earth.
On the initiative of the GACs of Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Senaki, Poti and Koki
(Zugdidi Municipality) there were held the actions “Love without violence”.
With these actions the GACs of the fund “Sukhumi” joined the international campaign “Billion rebels against violence”!
In Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Senaki, Poti and in the village of Koki (Zugdidi Municipality) the action: love - without violence! were held on the initiative of the Women Support Centers!
The actions united people round one goal - that women need love without violence!
By these activities, the Women Support Centers of the fund “Sukhumi” joined international campaign - one billion rebels against violence towards the women.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
This colored, colorful, interesting lesson was held in School №1 of Tskhaltubo. The lesson was devoted to the International Day of Peace.
Young students with interest conducted "unusual" job - on colored balloons they wrote their appeals and dreams.
The organizer - Tskhaltubo Women's Support Center.
September 21 – international day of peace. By the initiative of Senaki WSC, there was held a lesson in peace in the School No1 of Senaki.
Students painted the colored balls with peacekeeping appeals. They wrote a clear message to the Abkhazian and South Ossetian counterparts.
The people here know the price of peace. This village is near Abkhazia.
Therefore the lesson of peace, which was held there, was quite different.
Khurcha / Koki (Zugdidi Municipality) WSCs held the lesson of peace in a public school in the village Koki.
High school students - participants of the action expressed peacemaking attitude.