Access Program Students get acquainted with American Poets
On May 31, Ozurgeti Access Program organized an enrichment activity dedicated to American poetry. Rachael Evart, Peace Corps Volunteer based in Guria Youth Resource Center (Access Program partner NGO) led a session introducing three American poets: Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, and Shel Silverstein. After getting acquainted with the poets’ short biographies, Access students were given an opportunity to read some of the best poems by the given authors and discuss the messages the poets wanted to convey through their work.
In the concluding part of the enrichment activity, students were given 15 minutes for coming up with their own acrostic poems. To finish the day, all the participants of the event voted for the best acrostic poem. The authors of top three verses were awarded with small gifts.
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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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