Tbilisi. To tackle the impacts of COVID-19, Europe Foundation offered additional support to social enterprises previously awarded grants. Several organizations benefited from this support while dealing with the tasks facing them.

“The COVID-19 pandemic weighed particularly heavily on social enterprises due, in large part, to the fact that many operate in the field of tourism or in tourism-related sectors, e.g., traditional crafts and handmade objects. Compounding this, the business models used by social enterprises focuses on employing vulnerable categories. Hence, a large part of their staff are persons with disabilities and are in COVID-19’s higher risk group. Further, social enterprises lack the skills needed to ensure digital transformations, which proved to be a key technical solution during the pandemic. Some social enterprises, however, remained flexible as they tried to navigate through the challenges. Their approaches were designed to respond effectively to the COVID-19 restrictions. Enterprises in the catering and tourism sectors, however, are still confronting insurmountable challenges”, - is mentioned in the information of the Europe Foundation, - “Below are stories on how social enterprises tackled the coronavirus crisis”.

Read more 

Source: The web-page of the organization