On June 8 and 9 in Ureki there was held network meeting of the members of Club of Voter Women and journalists.

Several sessions of the meeting were held in interesting format: - presentation of the work of Fund “Sukhumi” on formation of local gender policy, experience of the club of Kutaisi, Senaki, Ozurgeti, Batumi, khobi, Zugdidi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, role of media, gender legislation  and practice, elaboration of strategy.

At the end of meeting, by the active involvement of each participant, there were formatted main directions of the club work and concrete activities were planned.

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”.

In School No1 of Tskaltubo, there was held informational meeting of the youth club on the issue of domestic violence reasons and prevention mechanisms. Discussion of the topic was held in interesting atmosphere, lots of questions were put – especially regarding a problem of prevention and effectiveness of law.

The meeting in school No 2 of Poti, discussed a problem of trafficking, as one of the ways of violence. they spoke about reasons and thought about the ways out.

Especially interesting was meeting in the village Teklati (Senaki Municipality) on the topic of trafficking. As the meeting was held for the first time, participants received information about the fund “Sukhumi”, about youth clubs. Several pupils were chosen, who expressed a will to become a member of the club.

40 women attended the club of voter women in Ozurgeti – Center of Democratic Engagement: representatives of local government, Gender Advisory Council, different services.

The audience spoke about actual problems of the city and ways of their advocacy. Future plans were defined.

Similar meetings are good ways of coordination of their work in frames of the project “Gender Advisory Councils – raising of women’s role in social changes of the region”.