Members of Tskaltubo Women Initiative Group highlighted the social problems of the IDP settlement and sorted them by priority.
The serious problem on Abkhazia street, where 100% of the population are IDPs, is the damaged roof of multistoried buildings VII and VIII. The situation l worsen in winter, when the roof will not stand the heavy rainfall.
On the basis of photo-video materials and signatures, the members of the Initiative Group will try to advocate this issue in September by “one window principle” in order to solve the problem within a reasonable time.
During the meeting, the members of the group made a brief report of the conducted work and talked about the challenges they faced in the work p
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
In August, a group working on the issues of Ukrainian refugees did a lot:
The beneficiaries were informed that WizzAir launched a promotion according to which Ukrainians could purchase tickets - some of them used this opportunity and returned to their homeland.
55 people were added to our database - now we have 255 people. Over the past week, we have provided assistance to 10 families from Kutaisi, Samtredia and Tkibuli.
Three psychologists (two of them are Ukrainians) actively conducted group and individual consultations for refugees.
We were addressed by a volunteer from Ukraine. A group of the Women Fund "Sukhumi" will communicate with him about the employment of Ukrainians and a kindergarten where parents can leave their children during work.
One of our beneficiaries underwent emergency dental surgery free of charge.
Two women will start attending polymer clay courses in Women Fund Sukhumi.
Despite the summer holidays, our women continue to work actively and take care of solving new problems.
Women Initiative groups are already working on issues that will be advocated in the near future.
Information meetings were held, where the advocacy plan was introduced and final versions were elaborated.
At this stage, the topics of advocacy are: "Additional placement of garbage bins in the IDP settlement located on Abkhazeti Street in Khoni", "Women's passivity and less involvement in economic activity." "
" Women's passivity, indifference, less involvement, mentality, lack of knowledge in economic activity."
The project is implemented with the support of the USAID
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Project work has identified many women leaders.
Mari Chitanava is one of them. Therefore, she was chosen as a main character of the article, published in our partner media publication Act2.
Mari is from Abkhazia. She is 26 and mother of three children.
When she was invited to the working meetings of the Women Fund “Sukhumi”, she refused, she was not interested and she did not have time. But then she nevertheless decided to join the IDP Women Initiative Group of Zugdidi. Her interest gradually grew. She became more and more active and attentively listened to information at live or online meetings and trainings.
A coalition project has been launched in five municipalities of western Georgia. The title of the project is: “Strengthening the capacities of the regional and local administrations in the processes of localization of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security and enhancing the meaningful participation of IDP and conflict-affected women and youth in these processes”.
The lawyer of the Women Fund "Sukhumi" held group and individual information meetings: in the village Didi Nedzi (Zugdidi municipality), Dimi (Bagdati municipality), Senaki and Tkibuli. The group meetings were attended by representatives of the City Hall, school teachers and representatives of civil society. During the meetings, a presentation of the web page - "Digital Resource Center of Services for Victims of Violence" was made.
In Tsalenjikha, an individual consultation was given to a woman about the status of a single mother and in Vani - about divorce to a woman who was a victim of violence. All meetings were organized by the Women Support Centers.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)
In August, people almost leave the city, but there are many guests. It was they who attended the performances of the forum theater in Kutaisi.
Two performances were held. The viewer got interested in this format. Some have not seen or heard about the forum theater at all. Some of the audience actively joined the scenes. Unfortunately, everyone refused to take pictures, so only the actors and episodes of the scenes are visible in the photos.
Open-air performances play a big role as a mechanism for informing society and preventing violence.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)
Senaki Women Initiative Group starts to work on the problem using the "one window principle". According to the general decision, a priority issue has already been chosen: The military settlement of Senaki, which is mainly resided by the IDPs from Abkhazia, has a serious problem: a faulty sewer system - basements are flooded, which creates discomfort for the population.
The working group collected photo and video materials reflecting the problem, as well as signatures - for submission to the relevant departments. The Women Initiative Group will continue to work on the problem using the "one window" principle in cooperation with local authorities.
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
Gogi Revia has a long experience of working in the local self-government of Zugdidi municipality. For the last ten years, he has been serving the direction of social protection, where, among other issues, significant attention is paid to gender equality. The budget of Zugdidi municipality was the first document where the program for financing victims of violence officially published in 2015.
"For an abused woman who is afraid of society to convey her first emotion to a man she knows or doesn't know at all is an embarrassing problem [in general], but because of my attitude, these women open up to me within minutes. They are sure what they tell me are confidential. I always offered them an effective solution and they were convinced. When there are one, two, ten or many other cases, I really have this confidence from them," - Gogi Revia, the head of the Social Protection and Gender Equality Department of the Zugdidi Municipality City Hall, tells us in the "Gender and Society" column.
