List of the micro projects funded under Europe Foundation’s Youth Integration Program by Youth Banks in Georgia (2008-2016) Initiatives funded by the Akhaltsikhe Youth Bank: 1. Marathon - to mobilize youth from Akhaltsikhe schools and organize a marathon to promote healthy lifestyle among youth. 2. What? Where? When? - to organize intellectual games for the 9th and 10th graders enrolled in six public schools of Akhaltsikhe municipality in order to motivate them to read books. 3. Education - to set up a literature club for the students of Akhaltsikhe Public School #5 and purchase 40 up-to-date academic books to improve the students’ access to contemporary educational materials. 4. TAO - to encourage local youth to practice healthy lifestyle, by organizing a rugby tournaments for 9th and 10th graders enrolled in 5th and 1st public Schools of Akhaltsikhe municipality. 5. Books for all - to set up a literature club for the students of Akhaltsikhe Public School #1 and purchase up-to-date academic textbooks in order to improve the students’ access to contemporary educational materials. 6. Everlasting Art - to organize a charity action to help the Akhaltsikhe Orphanage by Akhaltsikhe State University students. 7. Clean and Comfortable School Yard - to clean the territory of Akhaltsikhe Public School # 1, which was used by the local population as a garbage dump and establish plant garden there. 8. Books First of All - to purchase books for the library at Akhaltsikhe Public School # 1 and organize intellectual contest for the school students. 9. Healthy Lifestyle for Akhaltsikhe Youth - to popularize soccer among youth in Akhaltsikhe by forming two soccer teams, training them and providing them with necessary equipment and finally, by organizing a soccer tournament. 10. Youth Unity - to support integration of ethnic minority youth by improving their access to books and organizing literature evening to read for the public the extracts from famous Georgian, Armenian, and Russian authors. 11. Table tennis - to popularize table tennis by purchasing table tennis equipment for Akhaltiskhe University sports club and organizing table tennis tournament. 1 12. Help kindergarten for a better future - to improve the conditions of the local kindergarten by purchasing kids’ tables, chairs and special toys for kids. 13. Intellectuals - to improve Akhaltsikhe University Law students’ access to contemporary law books by purchasing 42 law books of 27 different authors and registering these books in the Law Department’s library. 14. Literature Club - to motivate young people to read books by purchasing 35 modern literature books for the school library and establishing a literature club for the school’s students. 15. Everyone at elections - to raise the interest of first-time voters on election-related issues by producing and distributing flyers with messages to motivate the first time voters to come to the elections. 16. Come on girls! - to create additional motivation for the first time voters to participate in the elections by cleaning up surroundings of three polling stations in Akhaltsikhe to make the place attractive for the voters. 17. What can one vote change? - to educate young citizens about protecting and advocating their voting rights at polling stations by organizing training for the students of the local schools on the rights and responsibilities of voters. 18. A Safer Road to a Safe School - to provide safe conditions for local school students, through renovating the bridge connecting the so called Shakhta II district school students to the Vale Public School #3. 19. Determine Your Own Future - to raise the interest of first-time voters on election-related issues, by producing flyers with messages to motivate first time voters to participate in the Georgian parliamentary election of 2012. 20. First Time Voters – to educate young citizens about protection and advocacy for their voting rights at the polling stations, by forming a group of 40 young people representing both ethnic majority and minority residents of the region and organizing training on the rights and responsibilities of voters for them, as well as conducting mock elections. 21. Knowledge – to purchase up-to-date youth academic literature for the Vale Public School Library to improve students’ access to contemporary educational materials and to motivate local secondary school students to read more and enhance their education. 22. Intellectuals – to purchase up-to-date youth academic literature for Udi Public School library in order to improve access of the students to contemporary educational materials. 23. Green Environment – to set an example for local youth to care for the environment, by planting 40 pine trees around Akhatsikhe University campus. 2 24. Education Requires Support – to purchase books for Akhatsikhe University library to improve students’ access to contemporary scholarly literature that will help them to do better in their university studies. 25. Study for Georgia – to purchase text books, DVDs and audio disks with a headset and tape recorder for Akhaltsikhe Public School library to improve conditions for learning English for school students. 26. My Clean Town – to motivate local population to keep Akhaltsikhe clean by purchasing and installing garbage bins in the streets. 27. Help Me to Learn - to motivate youth to learn English language by purchasing 61 up-to-date English academic publications and organizing intellectual game in English for 25 students of Khizabavra public school. 28. Debates – From Dream to Reality - to improve the quality of education by conducting workshop for students on how to facilitate debates, followed by debate tournament for students enrolled in the schools of Akhaltsikhe municipality. 29. Freedom of Speech and Quality Education is Our Priority - to improve the quality of education by purchasing 22 up-to-date academic publications, distributing to five different schools of Akhaltsikhe municipality and organizing essay contest for students enrolled in these schools. 30. English Library - to motivate youth to learn English language through purchasing 100 up-to- date English academic publications and organizing book presentation with participation of students enrolled in Adigeni public school. 31. Environmental Protection - to motivate youth to take care of the environment, by producing and spreading flyers and posters in Akhaltikhe municipality and publishing an article on the subject matter in local newspaper Samkhretis Karibche. 32. Provide School with New Books – To motivate youth to read books and to improve the students’ access to contemporary educational materials by purchasing up-to-date academic publications for Adigeni public school and organizing books presentation with the participation of local youth. 33. Human Rights - to raise awareness of Akhaltsikhe municipality residents about the human rights, by organizing various activities: essay contest, movie screening, moot court and series of trainings on the subject matter. 34. Human Rights – Peer Educators - to raise awareness of Akhaltsikhe municipality residents about the human rights, by organizing training for local youth and producing table calendars on the subject matter. 3 Initiatives funded by the Akhalkalaki Youth Bank: 35. Maintaining Healthy Lifestyle among the Youth – to organize training for 60 young women from Akhalkalaki public schools to provide them with basic knowledge about their reproductive health, rights and responsibilities. 36. Keep Our Environment Green – to plant trees and flowers in the schoolyard, place flower pots in the school building hallway and organize a Green Corner in one of the classrooms with flowers and indoor pets. 37. Let’s Learn about Our Rights and Responsibilities – to organize a seminar for Akhalkalaki public school students on civil rights and responsibilities; 38. Promoting Quality Education – to organize a contest in 10 villages of Akhalkalaki to test knowledge of the state language (Georgian) among the ethnic minority youth residing in the region. 39. Youth of Gorelovka – to clean up the school surroundings and to fence the school yard to protect the school territory from further pollution. 40. School Facilities - to improve the quality of education by purchasing visual aid publications for geography, shelves for the classroom of chemistry and volleyball net for gym for Akhalkalaki public school #2. 41. Football Stadium - to mobilize volunteers for putting the fence around the football stadium, in order to preserve surrounding nature from any damage, which may appear while playing football. 42. Victory - To promote youth involvement in environmental protection by mobilizing volunteers to install benches and plant the flowers in the yard of Akhalkalaki Kindergarten. 43. Clean up Akhalkalaki Kindergarten - to promote youth involvement in environmental protection by mobilizing volunteers to clean-up the surroundings of Akhalkalaki kindergarten #1 and planting the flowers, installing garbage bins and chairs there. 44. Equator - to improve the quality of education, while at the same time to steer young people toward a morehealthy lifestyle, by purchasing contemporary educational materials and sporting equipment for the students enrolled in Khulgumo public school. 45. Sport - to promote healthy lifestyle among youth, by installing training equipment in Khulgumo public school yard. 46. Clean up Sulda Public School Surroundings - to provide a good example of caring for the environment, by mobilizing volunteers to clean-up the