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Red Hot grant-makers launch new YouthBanks in Georgia.
A training team from YouthBank recently returned from Tbilisi, Georgia having set up 6 new YouthBanks.
The group undertook a week long capacity building programme to strengthen their facilitation skills. The programme was packed with lots of practical and interactive exercises that helped participants think about how they would introduce and lead workshops to over 50 new Georgian YouthBank members in how to run a youth-led fund. A training team from YouthBank Ireland will be working in Armenia and Georgia in March 2009 to establish new YouthBanks and to co-work with peer educators from both countries.
Previous Work
The introduction to YouthBank in Georgia kicked off with an opening series of workshops, in October 2007, with 35 young people from Zugdidi, Akhaltsikhe, Marneuli, Batumi and Telavi. Participants returned to their communities and began conducting research and assessments of the interests of young people in their communities. Follow-up work was conducted by The Eurasia Partnership Foundation and additional training in February 2008 looked at further stages of the YouthBank process. The YouthBank committees began making awards in November 2008.
In response to the recent Russia- Georgia conflict an additional five YouthBanks will be established in March 2009 in areas with ethnically diverse populations and internally displaced young people. In October 2008 members of Marneuli YouthBank launched a donation drive at local schools and within days had collected school supplies, warm clothing and hygiene supplies, helping 116 children displaced by the conflict with Russia.
Pictured below is the Georgian YouthBank training programme in Tbilisi, October 2007, led by members of YouthBank training team.
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