June was dedicated to conflict escalation and gender equality at the Youth Empowerment Centers. These are the important issues on the agenda of young people.

The training course was held in Terjola, Chokhatauri, Tkibuli.

Live examples, role-games, animated films are the best methods of successful work with youth for awareness raising and development of their skills.

Teenagers, together with the trainers of the Women Fund "Sukhumi", discuss topical issues and plan initiated events in order to exchange useful information with others and include them in the conflict prevention process.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

In June, traditionally, trainings will be held in the Youth mpowerment Centers of 10 municipalities. This time we will speak about four meetings: work with the youth of Tsalenjikha, Vani and Bagdati municipalities took place online and the training in Zugdidi was live, active, full of exercises.

72 participants of the four meetings were actively involved in the discussion of topical issues - conflict escalation and gender-based violence. For majority of them, "escalation" was an unfamiliar word, but they remembered it at once.

Girls and boys discussed, argued, expressed their opinions. After the trainings, they began to conduct the so-called initiated events - in this way they demonstrate their knowledge and skills to their peers and this is the best result of working with young people.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

The last month of spring in the Youth Empowerment Centers ended with the meetings held in Chokhatauri, Tkibuli and Kobuleti municipalities.

All meetings were interesting, the participants were actively discussing the topic of conflicts and violence. However, the live training held in Kobuleti was special with creative activities.

According to the participants, the trainings are a good opportunity for teenagers to be informed about life issues.

As always, in May trainings were also held with youth groups set up in 10 municipalities. The total number of participants was 207. All of them were actively involved in discussing current issues, debates, group work or role games. Some of the participants will conduct an interesting so-called initiated measures themselves. This is a serious result of working with young people.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

We call these activities initiated - all this is carried out after the trainings. That is, young people try to share their knowledge with others and hold interesting events.

The work is carried out in 10 municipalities where Youth Empowerment Centers have been established.

Topics of activities: conflict management and violence prevention.

The activities are diverse: an information meeting, a film screening, a discussion club, an action, etc. Teenagers also held peacekeeping actions-appeals regarding the Ukrainian tragedy. Teachers and school directors are actively involved in the events. They believe that the Women Fund "Sukhumi" contributes to the non-formal education of students.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

“Non-formal education is a new window for me to well see the issues that my generation faces as challenges”.

"It is important to discuss the issues that have become the “Achilles' heel” of the 21st century - conflict and violence".

“It's interesting to listen to each other's opinions. Sometimes in the process of discussion, we rethink the issues, we see a better way out of the situation”.

This is what the young participants say during or at the end of the trainings.

Another 4 meetings were held in May at the Youth Empowerment Centers – this time in Bagdati, Chokhatauri, Terjola, Tsalenjikha municipalities. 80 participants were included in the trainings. The training process for them is interesting and exciting. Young people share their knowledge with others so that as many people as possible are informed.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

In the beginning of May, three training sessions were held on actual issues: problems of tolerance among young people and ways to manage conflicts. Interesting trainings with discussions and role--games were held in Senaki and Zugdidi Youth Empowerment Centers. Online, but active work was carried out with the youth group of Vani municipality.

All meetings were attended by 65 participants. For them, this is a space for communicating with successful peers, getting acquainted with important information, discovering new opportunities, so they look forward to the next meetings.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

They are interested in: when the next training will be held? Because they liked the work. Their feedback is following:

- It is interesting and necessary to conduct trainings on the topic of conflicts and violence.

- Live training is completely different!

- It is very good to play small scenes, the topic is better understood, and they got amused...

- They learned a lot about new and useful things.

The trainings in Tkibuli, Terjola and Kobuleti Youth Empowerment Centers were live, with role-playing games, exercises and discussions.

Also interesting were online trainings conducted with youth from the municipalities of Chokhatauri and Bagdati.

The participants were active, joined the discussions, frankly shared their views and experiences with each other.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

Another six-month work cycle is over. New groups were formed in Samtredia, Vani, Senaki, Tsalenjikha and Zugdidi municipalities and the first meetings were held. Conflict management and violence prevention - these topics were introduced to young people, they discussed, expressed their views.

The training process was successfully conducted in the youth empowerment centers. There were discussions, role-games, interactive work.

- Such trainings are important for us, we meet active peers, discuss new topics, we have interesting discussions, which gives us possibility to hold discussions with arguments and gives more information, - said the young people at the end of the meetings.

The trainers introduced all the groups to the website "Digital Resource Center of the Services for Victims of Violence" created by the Women Fund "Sukhumi" - http://gbvdigitalresourcecenter.ge/ Knowing this is important for young people to provide timely information to those who need it...

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

Members of the Youth Empowerment Center of five municipalities (Kobuleti, Chokhatauri, Senaki, Tsalenjikha and Bagdati), their parents and teachers, school directors, representatives of Youth Department and the Gender Equality Council of the municipalities attended online summarizing meetings.

The centers presented a report of six-month active work. Significant results and changes were seen in the presentations and emotional speeches of the youth. They said how important it is for them to participate in the initiated events, to work in a team, to acquire serious training knowledge and a lot of skills.

The Women Fund "Sukhumi" awarded certificates to the participants and young trainers of the training course and certificates of appreciation for the support and cooperation to the schools involved in the process.

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