Meeting with the lawyer touched lots of actual themes. One of the April meeting topics were alimonies. Participants gained information about alimony obligation for the parents, children and other family members, alimony amount and other questions.
There were 6 meetings with the lawyer held in the collective centers of Kutaisi, 65 women attended.
On the individual consultation in the office of the Fund “Sukhumi” a woman received explanation, how to protect herself from the husband-rapist. They are divorced, but in spite of this, he does not leave her alone.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Debate in Zugdidi and Senaki, portraits of Tskhaltubo WSC activists, views of young people from Khoni, active work of the Fund "Sukhumi" Forum Theatre, prevention of domestic violence - these and other questions were reflected in the second issue of "Women's Voice".
Sketches, analytical articles, information, video - magazine is rich with variety of genres.
Readers are given the opportunity to see the extent of the Fund "Sukhumi" on an important project "Strengthening of women's rights in Western Georgia."
Topics of April meetings were violence victim’s rehabilitation. The meetings were conducted in Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Senaki, Poti and village of Zugdidi region – Khurcha.
The IDP women learned more new. They were familiarized with the journals of the fund “Sukhumi” and they received information regarding planned activities.
The mentioned meetings are under interest of IDP collective centers, the women have possibility not only to relax from everyday life, but also to solve their problems through the help of mobilizers and WSCs.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Strategy WSCs, the value of the individual components of the project and communication of the results obtained with the main purpose - on these issues was held two-day training in Kobuleti for the mobilizers of WSCs of Kutaisi, Tskhaltubo, Honey, Senaki, Poti and Khurcha (Zugdidi district) .
Interactive and group exercises, simulated representations, discussions gave participants the opportunity to penetrate deeply into the issues discussed.
At the end of the training, they noted:
- As if everything was familiar, but we better understood the relationships between the activities and the main objective of the project..
- We have analyzed how true the strategy, which we use at work is.
- From today, we will be able to work more efficiently. This training helped us.
According mobilizers it is desirable to conduct this type of training to raise their professional level training. And it will be reflected in subsequent work of WSCs.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
There are number of publications on the page of youth facebook on: "Wandering book." In Kutaisi, in connection with a week of Shakespeare, we symbolically let the play "King Lear" to wander.
One user of Facebook, said:
- I am 27 years old, but I had not met this book before, I found it near the theater, read it in a day and left there. I would be glad if other readers share their impressions. Thank you for this!
Statistics for the last month:
189 Users put “like” on the page
22 new publications
436 viewing..
Youth page is becoming more active.
The project is implemented with the support of Kvinna till Kvinna,
During April round Kutaisi 8 group meetings with the psychologist and 2 individual ones (how to be protected from the rapist and teenager depression) were held. 87 women attended from19 to 60.
Three group meetings and consultations were conducted in the WSCs of Senaki, Kutaisi and Khurcha (Zugdidi region), 45 women attended from 28 to 60.
Almost every meeting touches an issue of domestic violence and conflicts regarding financial costs: “He does not trust me”, “Scolds me for spending money”, “You do not know the value of money” and etc.
In the yearly times each family had their own family book, where they were putting all expends. This old method is actual even today. It calms the nerves, stops conflicts, raises confidence; all family members will have information about money allocation. This will help to regulate relation in the family.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
