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At the beginning of the meeting participants talked about problems revealed by the League of Women-Voters and about necessity of solution of these issues. In the opinion of the participants, they welcome the fact that lawyers of Fund "Sukhumi” are actively involved in the activity of the League and work on the issues of maternity leave and free delivery taking into account relevant legislation. Except the aforementioned problems, there were named a range of other ones to be solved at the local level in Tskhaltubo, including such as free transport fares for students and pupils, restoration of municipal kindergartens and hospitals. Members of the Club showed an initiative to prepare a letter for the submission to the local government that these issues to be taken into account in the budget of the next year.

With the initiative of Fund "Sukhumi” in Kutaisi branch of Moscow Institute of Economics and Law was held a meeting on the topic of domestic violence for students and lecturers of different faculties . Participants got information about the 16-day campaign against gender violence. They were handed out leaflets and posters made by Fund "Sukhumi” and rendered legal consultations on the aforementioned topic.

Psychologist of Fund "Sukhumi" met with women IDPs in the collective of Kutaisi (Musical boarding school). Participants were provided with the information about the 16-day campaign against violence, talked about forms of violence. According to them, in recent years, women better know their rights and attitude of society has been changed. And this means that people began to speak about violence aloud and more often.