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This time the Club of Women Voters of Fund "Sukhumi" invited a Deputy Chief of Kutaisi municipality improvements, Bakur Balanchivadze and a Chief specialist, Zurab Kukhianidze to the panel discussion.

The main topic of the discussion was the environmental situation. Members of the club expressed an initiative to hold in large-scale informational campaign that will promote civic awareness in term of the protection of ecological purity. They plan to conduct a survey and study public opinion about the role of citizens in the process of protecting and cleaning up the environment, about the need to change the relevant legislation and conduct activities to address the problem.

Participants of the meeting noted that the inclusion of the local government is necessary to allocate financial resources for the preparation of social advertising and street banners. There was developed the issue of penalties for polluting the area.

Guests welcomed the initiative and promised the club’s members that they will necessarily consider the issue of their involvement in the informational campaign.

The project is implemented with the financial support

of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia