Informational meetings of the youth clubs were held in the Women Support Center of Khoni, School No7 of Poti and No 1 of Tskaltubo.

Topic of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict was interesting not only for the young IDPs, but also for the local youth. They were involved in the discussion, remembered real histories, spoke about conflict solution, negotiations, economical development, dialogue with the young generation.

“After such meetings we have more interest towards this issue and a wish to be more involved in the discussion. We can start relation with the new leaf”. – mentioned the young participants of the meeting.

On February 10 in Zugdidi there was held an ordinary meeting of the Club of voter women. The meeting discussed the issue of creation of Gender Equality Council in local self-government. The fund “Sukhumi” tries to promote this process.

One of the issues in the agenda was discussion of local social problems and the ways of tehir advocacy. During the meeting there were elaborated recommendations for submission in regional organization of acting political parties.

After the meeting of the club there was held a meeting with the representative of one party.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

Meetings of the youth clubs in Tskaltubo, Senaki and Poti were devoted to actual issues – norms of ethics and esthetics, sex education and formation of personal culture - as a tool for violence prevention.

The young men listened with interest to the assistant of Fund "Sukhumi”, to each other, and thus searched for answers to the questions, the truth, the way to solve problems.

Discussions were interesting and active. Participants talked about the prevention of violence. This is more or less connected with the rules of ethics and esthetics, with the proper sex education and personal culture.

Opinions of the participants:

“Interesting, actual, unusual issues were chosen, which we could not discuss anywhere. That is why I like meetings in youth clubs”.

“It is good that stereotype that our generation chooses society, without violence is ruined”.

On October 21 a meeting of the Club of Women-Voters of Kutaisi was held. The first question was information about the first round of parliamentary elections. The meeting was attended by members of the club, the majoritarian candidate Lia Gvenetadze and women who actively participated in the work of election commissions. They spoke about their election experience.

At the club, it was noted that women for the given period also are not represented in the Parliament properly. Therefore, according to them, more work should be done for election in 2017 to the local government to have more women at decision-making level.

The second issue at the club was the selection of problems for advocacy. The club has many years of experience and hope that the advocacy process will be completed efficiently.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia

At a regular meeting of Tskhaltub Club of Voter Women, there was a conversation about the issues allocated for advocacy. Attention was paid to unresolved problems. Several groups have been created that will work to advocate specific problems. At the meeting, the final version of the recommendations was developed, which should be submitted to political parties for inclusion in their programs.

In April the Club of Voter Women organized a trip of teachers and students to Gelati Monastery. On April 21, on the Earth Day, members of the Club conducted a cleaning action and planted seedlings. Young people were actively involved in the action.

In frames of the campaign of “16 active days against gender violence” on the initiative of Kutaisi youth club there were held informational meetings in private schools “Ghone Kveknisa” and “Progress”.

In these schools the young actors of the forum-theatre of the fund “Sukhumi” conducted also the performances on the issue of different types of violence.

The pupils and the teachers were actively involved in discussion. According to them, all of us should say “no” to violence.

The meeting of the Club of voter women was dedicated to the International Day of Women's Solidarity - March 8. The conversation touched women's solidarity, women's leadership, women's participation in politics, and so on.

Invited participants of the club - active women, working in different spheres, had an opportunity to tell about their life, about the way they went, with what difficulties they encountered. It was noted that the success of women in public and political life is largely promoted by her family.

During the discussions, recommendations were made to improve women's rights and opportunities, which could be presented to political parties and local authorities.

The meeting of the Club of Voter Women of Khoni there was invited the chairman of the regional election commission Giorgi Gordadze. He noted that the current year was announced the year of "gender" by the CEC and told about a number of changes in the election procedure in the near future.

The meeting also considered all the planned issues.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia