Access Students Become Finalists of the FLEX Program
Giorgi Labartkava and Nino Samsonidze from Akhaltsikhe and Nino Gorgoshidze from Ozurgeti became the finalists of the FLEX competition and are now impatiently waiting for the final results to be known in April 2012.
“I cannot believe I went so far”, Nino Gorgoshidze, Access Program student in Ozurgeti said. “If not for the program, I would not have even applied. Now I know that everything is possible”, she admitted.
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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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