Kakheti. CSO "Civil Development Institute" has organized a meeting on June 4 in the Telavi Media Cafe.As part of the project "Informed Youth Electorate", students and interested youngsters have met with the Telavi Mayor nominees. Youngsters have focused on the current problems in the city.

Tbilisi. Association "Child and Family" has organized a contest for children without custodial care dedicated to the International Children's Day. Best works were identified - the essay "If I had a magic stick" and the painting "My dream". The contest was organized with support from Association "Our House" - Poland. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Guria. Peer educators of the Youth Center of the "Young Teachers' Union" have delivered a training in environmental protection on June 4 in the Shua Amaghleba public school. Training participants have discussed the importance of reducing the spending of resources and the principle of multiple use of things, as well as the potential secondary use of plastic bags and bottles. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Shida Kartli. A discussion over "Family and school for the sake of a child's well-being" was organized on June 4 as part of the week of CSO "Biliki". In addition, the film "Mother, I Love You" was shown, followed by a discussion. Representatives of CSO "Biliki", parents of the Day Center beneficiaries, school teachers and social workers have participated in the event. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Samegrelo. Members of the Youth Center "Ortus" of Association "Atinati" have delivered a peer education training in "Human Rights" on June 4 in the Zugdidi public school. Schoolchildren from the 8th, 9th and 10th grades of the same school have participated in the training. Peer educators have informed youngsters about human rights. After working in groups, the participants have presented sketches on the topic and shared their opinions with the trainers. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Imereti. The training in "Culture of Tolerance and Ethnic Minorities in Georgia" was delivered for the members of the Kutaisi Youth Center. The event aimed to raise youngsters' awareness on tolerance, human rights, ethnic minorities and integration. The training was delivered as part of the Advancing National Integration in Georgia project, implemented by the UN Association of Georgia with support of the US Agency for International Development. Source: the organization's web page in the social network.

Kvemo Kartli. Young Constitutionalists have organized meetings in Dmanisi. Events were held as part of the project – "Stable Constitution – Youth Choice" and were attended by the schoolchildren of the Dmanisi Municipality schools. Schoolchildren were informed about significant constitutional issues such as fundamental human rights, separation of powers, notion of local self-government, judicial system, etc.The organization will hold a similar event on June 9-10 in the Borjomi Municipality. Source: the organization's web page in the social network.

Imereti. Members of the Kutaisi Youth Center have delivered a peer education training - "Ways of conflict resolution" on June 3 in the public school of village Kvitiri. 19 schoolchildren have attended the meeting.The training aimed to raise the schoolchildren's awareness on conflict resolution, negotiation techniques, prevention of forms of violence, which will enable the participants to identify their own capabilities, develop skills necessary for managing negotiations and achieving desirable results, analyze conflict setting and resolution situations, develop mechanisms for establishing conflict-free and effective relations with various types of individuals and business partners, and learn the ways of situation control and management. Various case studies were used during the training. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. A conference was held on May 30 on the introduction in Georgia of a new model of early integration of children's development. Representatives of the public sector and CSOs, as well as the health and social welfare specialists have discussed the issue.A new model of children's early development ensures the discovery of preventive and development problems at an early stage in children with special needs. 15,000 children require early intervention services in Georgia, and currently only 350 children can use these services with state funding.The conference was organized by the Georgian Association of Child Neurologists and Neurosurgeons, with support of the "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation. Source: www.osgf.ge

Shida Kartli. The Gori Youth Center functioning with the CSO "Club of the Disabled" has celebrated June 1 - the International Children's Day.The event was diverse and entertaining. Namely: the asphalt was painted, volunteers of the Youth Center have painted the faces of participating children with gouache, open auditorium was organized, where the leader of the Gori Youth Center Temur Samkharadze has disseminated information on this day. In addition, during the event traceurs from Gori have showed their skills, causing vast interest among the children.

Kakheti. At the initiative of the Kakheti Regional Development Program of CSO "World Vision Georgia" and the "Georgian Institute for Debates and Education", the final of regional tournament of debates among school-based clubs was organized in the Telavi Education Resource Center. The debates were organized over inclusive education. CSO representatives, local self-government members, students and active citizens have attended the meeting.

Tbilisi. Student movement "Green Fist" has launched the new initiative - "Green Library", aimed at creating free space for cultural and educational development in the regions of Georgia together with the local population. As part of the "Green Library", discussions and movie screenings will be organized, lectures will be delivered and books will be handed over to the local libraries. For the full text. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. "Civil Initiative" has organized the daisy charity event on May 29 in the streets of Tbilisi. The organization's members have sold the flowers in the Tbilisi streets. With the raised amount youngsters plan to make the mobile discussion cinema-club. The organization will hold discussions in the villages of the Sighnaghi Municipality. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Kakheti. Representatives of the "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation have met with students of the Telavi State University on May 29.Employing youngsters in the media sales area was a key topic of discussion. Focus was made on problems experienced by the current media market, such as: creation by online media resources and independent television studios of media content expressing public interest, improvement of skills required for the development of media as business, as well as raising the level of journalistic standards and media literacy.

Kakheti. Members of the youth center "Stsani" of the community union "Nukriani" in Sighnaghi have delivered on May 26 the performance titled "Our Library". The performance focused on persons who do not take care of books and tear them apart, as well as the most acute problem - ignorance of books. This event was organized as part of the joint project of the union "Nukriani" and the Civil Initiative – "My Village", implemented with financial support of the East-West Management Institute.Source: web page of the Nukriani workshops in the social network.

Kvemo Kartli. On June1-2 the members of the Rural Sociologists' Club will visit village Avranlo of the Tsalka Municipality. The project aims to organize various cultural and social events in rural areas. The Club members will visit the village Avranlo public school as well. All interested parties can contribute to project implementation, assist organizers with toys, inventory, books or other material resources. Volunteers can join the event with creative ideas.Contact information: t.gugushvili@hotmail.com

Tbilisi. The School of Liberalism has hosted Levan Berdzenishvili's lecture - "What does Sophocles tell us new?". The School offers a video recording of the lecture for those who were unable to attend. The lecture. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Guria. Student-Youth Council, newspaper "Guria Moambe" and the Development and Democracy Center implement the project: "We Go to Elections! You Come as Well!".The project is supported by the "Center of Electoral Systems Development, Reforms and Training". As part of the project, "Guria Moambe" launches a cycle of programs through which the newspaper readers and web page viewers will have an opportunity to obtain information on the local self-government elections.The program guests will include nominees to the Sakrebulo, as well as the mayor and Gamgebeli candidates. Debates will be organized through a Livestream between the Ozurgeti Mayor candidates. Newspaper readers and the web page viewers will have a possibility to pose questions to candidates ahead of and during the meetings.

Kakheti. The Kakheti Regional Office of the NATO and EU Information Center has organized the qualification tournament in intellectual games "What? Where? When?" of the school championships among the civic club representatives of the Telavi-based schools. Games were topic-oriented and all questions were related to NATO and the EU. Based on the game results, a 20-person group will be formed, which will visit one of the military bases of the Georgian armed forces with funding from the Information Center.

Tbilisi. The School of Liberalism has hosted the discussion - "Should Khudonhesi be Built?". At the discussion the School members have presented arguments in favor of and against building Khudonhesi. Following the positions of the parties, mentor Kakha Bakhtadze, Programs Manager of the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN), has summarized and analyzed the parties' arguments. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Imereti. Training was delivered in "Civil Activism and Women's Political Participation" on May 22 for members of the Kutaisi Youth Center. Representatives of the Media Development Fund and the Constitutional Training Center have moderated the meeting. Training aimed to raise youth's awareness on women's political and civil rights and legislative guarantees for increased women participation in electoral processes.After the training, exhibition "Women from the Past - Example for the Future" initiated by the Media Development Fund was organized. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Guria. Debates in a public format - "Standard of coverage of children's rights in media must be observed" - were organized on May 21 in the conference hall of the "Union of Young Teachers". Along with schoolchildren of the Leaders' School, journalists of "Guria Moambe" and "Guria News" have also participated in the debates, topic of which was selected based on observations of the youth on media. Audience have actively participated in discussion following the debates. Source: the organization's page in the social network.