The suggested project is built upon previous successful experiences of GFSIS with youth representing the Georgian Religious minority communities of Mountainous Adjara and Adigeni municipality of Samtskhe-Javakheti. Specifically, it aimed to facilitate the integration of regional youth through informal educational activities, including raising their awareness of local and national issues and strengthening their soft-skill capacity. The project intended to enable the youth of mentioned communities’ high school students (14-18 yr) to better engage with government systems, set of activities continued to enhance capacity-building within the youth, focus their interest on the values that support the development of inclusive, tolerant and democratic society.
The project participants were up to 300 teens from Mountainous Adjara and Adigeni Municipality. The initiative involved youth cultural and social engagement through youth discussion clubs, the intellectual quiz based on the youth educational journal My World, visits to the capital, summer camp, and a graduation ceremony.
As an end result, the program strengthened the resilience of local youth towards outside influences and enhanced inter-religious tolerance as well as contributed to the establishment of a platform of like-minded youngsters from local communities.
The project is a continuation of the Community youth engagement in the regions of Georgia and with the support of the US Embassy in Tbilisi.