U.S. Embassy Supports Development of Vocational Training
On November 10, U.S. Embassy representatives Kerri Hannan, Political Officer, and Mako Ghogoberidze, Political Assistant, presented a J. Kirby Simon Foreign Service Trust Grant in the amount of $3,000 to Nana Iashvili at the Tsisartkela Center. Ms. Iashvili is the Chairperson of the NGO Child and the Environment, which founded Tsisarkela Center with funding from USAID and the Save the Children funding under the project “Rebuilding life.”
The $3,000 award will be used by the Center to teach vulnerable children how to make enamel jewelry. After completion of the project, the children will train their peers at the Center independently as tutors.
Tsisartkela Center, established in 2002, renders assistance to fifty working and at-risk children between six and eighteen years old. The children are given basic medical and psychological help, receive tutoring to support their formal education, participate in various afterschool activities including music and theater programs, and receive non-vocational and vocational training. These activities enable the children to receive some professional training and serves as an alternative to begging or participating in criminal activity. |
