Access Students from Rustavi Celebrate Halloween with an Enrichment Activity
On October 31, Access Program in Rustavi dedicated an enrichment activity to celebration of a popular American traditional holiday of Halloween. Karolina Pawlowska, European Voluntary Service (EVS) volunteer, made an interactive presentation about Halloween. While speaking about the origin and etymology of the celebration, she tried to use the knowledge that Access students already had about the holiday to make the whole presentation more interesting and participatory. Students have shown great interest in the subject and asked many questions about the celebration of Halloween in the United States. The presentation was followed by an interesting discussion on cultural differences between Georgia and the U.S. and culminated in carving the pumpkins
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Success Stories
 Dianne Zhambakhidze was once a shy and silent student, but that was before she enrolled in Access. It took her nearly a year to find her voice, but now she is one of the most helpful and friendly members of the group. Peers admire her diligence and hard work and always pay extra attention to what she has to say in class when she answers questions and gives advice on homework problems. > More Second rotation of the Access program in Adjara region of Georgia started with its own set of challenges. After consultations with PH, “Changes without Borders” the implementing partner of the Access program decided to cast the participatory net wider to the outer and more remote locations of Adjara. The level of education and achievement among youth, in those remote locations, is lower than that in the Batumi public schools. Although over 200 applications were received, general starting level of language competencies among the selected 25 Access students was dramatically low. The majority of students could hardly read in English > More  |
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