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On May 16, the Zugdidi Club of Voet Women held a regular meeting. The head of the Kutaisi branch of Georgian Young Lawyers Association was invited, who talked about issues related to constitutional changes.
The participants of the meeting expressed their views and developed recommendations, talked about the strengths and weaknesses of the Club, opportunities and challenges.
Members of the Club also listened to information about the establishment of the Gender Equality Council - the issue has already been resolved and the Council will start functioning in June.
Changes in the Constitution of Georgia, how these changes are acceptable to citizens, how this will affect the future of the state as a whole, which model of the state system will be implemented - discussion of these issues took place at the ordinary meeting of the Club of Voter Women in the meeting room of Senaki Sakrebulo. Members of the Club recorded their position.
The second part of the meeting was devoted to the SWOT analysis of the Club's work. The activists had the opportunity to make situational analysis, to think about the weaknesses and strengths, to improve the activities.
The project is implemented with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia
Planned another three meetings were held in the Youth Clubs on topic of ethics and aesthetics and sex education in school No. 7 in Poti, in the Kutaisi library and in the collective center of the military town of Senaki.
At the meetings, leaders were selected who actively joined the work. Participants - girls and boys - gave interesting examples, frankly talked about the need for informal education and discussion of these issues.
Norms of ethics and aesthetics and sexual education – to these issues were given special attention at the informational meetings of the Youth Clubs.
At school # 1 of Tskhaltubo, the participants immediately actively joined. According to them, the discussion of these issues is important for the prevention of violence.
The Fund "Sukhumi" held meetings for the first time in the library of Khoni and in the village of Ganmukhuri (Zugdidi municipality). The participants learned about the work of the Youth Clubs and expressed their desire to join. We talked about the norms of ethics and aesthetics. About that, on what it is necessary to make an accent and about what deficiency is found out in the younger generation.
In April, with the help of a specially developed open questionnaire, a study was conducted in the Youth Clubs of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Poti, Koki (Zugdidi Municipality). The number of respondents was 90 people. The purpose of the study is to see the positive results of the work.
The focus group survey showed the effective work of clubs and their influence not only on club members and activists, but also on their families and peers.
Members of the Gender Equality Council of Sakrebulo of Batumi Municipality were invited to the next meeting of Batumi Club of Voter Women. They familiarized the members of the Club with the action plan, talked about the planned activities, in which the members of the Club were asked to join.
Two women who were victims of violence were consulted at the meeting. They were redirected to the relevant structures.
It was also said that the issue advocated by the club is already been resolved - in the budget of 2017 local government allocated the amount to build a kindergarten in the village of Benze.
The project is implemented with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia
The meeting of the Club of Voter Women was held in the conference - hall of Gamgeoba of Khobi Municipality. Members of the Club discussed many social problems, both on a regional scale and the state as a whole. In the course of the active discussion, issues such as: the need to develop small business and support the family business in rural areas, promote greater access of the rural population to state programs to support small businesses, etc. were touched upon. The recommendations developed during the discussion will be submitted to political parties.
The ordinary meeting of Ozurgeti Club of Voter Women discussed the recommendations for political parties and also gave them final form, so that they, in their programs, could envisage the needs of women and the issues necessary for their activation.
At previous meetings, issues related to infrastructure were identified, so a competent person was invited to the meeting, who listened to the issues raised, and talked about ways of responding to them.
In connection with the forthcoming elections to the local self-government, the regular meeting of the Kutaisi Club of Voter Women was attended by Marina Shalamberidze, member of the Central Election Commission, Gogi Tsulaia, chairman of the political party “Free Georgia”, and Nino Dolidze, an activist of the party.
Marina Shalamberidze spoke about issues of interest to women - precinct election commissions and their work, how an individual can register - an ordinary citizen and stand for election independently.
Mr. Tsulaia appealed to women, to become party members, to be more active and to take part in elections of local self-government.
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.