On May 17 – 18 GE Calls hosted the experts from USA: Amy Holloway, Director of Victim Services for the Vermont Department of Corrections and Kate Searles Brayton, Director of the Essex Community Justice Center
An interactive training was held with participation of the school representatives about the use of restorative justice at schools.
Apart from the schools the training was attended by the representatives of different state and non-governmental organizations, whose area of work directly involves juvenile crime prevention.
Students of school № 19 in Makiyivka participated at an interactive session "Festival of Professions in Our Community" held within the IDEA Project Powered by Microsoft YouthSpark by IDEA Center affiliated with NGO "Project Kesher”.
GE CALLS Zugdidi project is in active phase of work.
Beside the team-building trainings where project participants acquire team-work skills via entertaining and dynamic methods, training on social media was also delivered bringing more information about function and effective use of modern social media tools.
On April 13, 2014 “Kapan Child Center” Community Organization organized training on “Journalist Ethics when Targeting Vulnerable Groups”. About 12 young journalists from regional media, representatives from the local administration and psychologists participated in the training
Civics club students organized exhibition of paintings by children with disabilities at the local Art Gallery. Students worked to prepare for the event, conducted informational campaign, collected the data about the number of children with disabilities and surveyed their needs.
Students from Georgian and Azeri sector schools in Dmanisi decided to improve the infrastructure of the local sports space, namely, to renovate changing rooms.
Since January, students from 15 school-based civics clubs in Adjara volunteered in different non-Governmental and state organizations to benefit their communities.