Partners:
The
Program is being implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science of
Georgia in cooperation with the British Association ,,Children’s
High Level Group”.
Objectives of the Program:
- To
raise motivation of children and youth for their involvement into community
activities;
- Foster integration and socialization of socially
vulnerable children, children deprived parental care, children with special
needs, IDP students, national minorities and Meskhetians forcefully exiled from
Georgia during the Soviet Union through the planning/implementation of
different community activities.
Outcome
of the Program:
- By the end of 2010 regular meetings
(2-5 meetings a week) will have been conducted in 44 public schools, 26
boarding schools, 2 higher educational institutions, 14 public special schools
and in 5 selected communities resided by
IDPs, Meskhetians forcefully exiled from
Georgia during the Soviet Union, national and ethnic minorities and children
with disabilities. These meetings would enable volunteers, schoolchildren and
other program participants to deepen knowledge in different issues.
- Through the implementation of
community activities, the participants of the program would develop civic
consciousness/values and would foster civil integration of different categories
of people (children from orphanages and boarding schools, repatriated students,
people with special needs, IDPs, national minorities).
- In 2010, the number of the Program
volunteers will be increased by 5% compared with the number from 2009;
Timeframe
of the Program:
10 months (March-December)
The
Target Groups of the Program:
The Program would
involve:
- 2 640 volunteers from 44 public schools;
- 200 parents.
- 1200 students of 40 special educational
and day-care institutions;
- 50 youth representatives from the
village Shaumiani of Marneuli district settled with internally displaced people
exiled during Russian military aggression in South Ossetia (August 2008);
- 100 repatriated Meskhetians currently
living in the village Nasakirali of Ozurgeti municipality and in the village
Ianeti of Samtredia municipality;
- 20 Roma children living in Rustavi and
Kutaisi;
- 200 students of Ilia State University
and Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.
- Different Non Governmental
Organizations.
