{"id":15839,"date":"2018-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/dobrovolnictvo-gruzinsko\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:00:00","slug":"dobrovolnictvo-gruzinsko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/dobrovolnictvo-gruzinsko\/","title":{"rendered":"What volunteering looks like in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The settlement of Tserovani is located just a few kilometres from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. It consists of 8008 internally displaced people (IDPs) who have been living here in 2002 houses for ten years since the Russian-Georgian conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20334 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_4707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of these houses houses the NGO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ForBetterFutureNGO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For a better future<\/a>, which seeks exactly what it says in its name - a better future for the inhabitants of this settlement, with a focus on women, young people and the long-term unemployed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20333 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HipstamaticPhoto-551694131.301731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another such house is temporarily occupied by our development volunteer, Martin Pavelka, who is sent here thanks to the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SlovakAid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SlovakAid<\/a>and works directly with IDPs. She teaches English, tutors local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ADRASlovensko\/photos\/pcb.2182571395128852\/2182571325128859\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sort waste<\/a>, helping them to prepare for job interviews, using her skills and experience in HR, PR, education, communications.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20330 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is also home to a sheltered workshop and a social enterprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ikortaenterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ikorta<\/a>, which produces enamel jewellery - an increasingly sought-after souvenir thanks to the efforts of our volunteer. Support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ADRASlovensko\/photos\/a.550950054957669\/2170633599655965\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social entrepreneurship<\/a> may be doing well in Georgia, but it needs to move forward in its production and marketing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our global page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/globalne_dobrovolnictvo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volunteering<\/a> and maybe next year you'll come here to help too.<\/p>\n<p>Text by Boba M. Baluchov\u00e1, Photo by ADRA Slovakia team<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Os\u00eddlie Tserovani sa nach\u00e1dza iba nieko\u013eko kilometrov od hlavn\u00e9ho mesta Gruz\u00ednska, Tbilisi. Pozost\u00e1va z 8008 vn\u00fatorne pres\u00eddlen\u00fdch \u013eud\u00ed (IDPs), ktor\u00ed tu takto v 2002 dom\u010dekoch \u017eij\u00fa u\u017e desa\u0165 rokov od rusko-gruz\u00ednskeho konfliktu. V jednom z tak\u00fdchto dom\u010dekov s\u00eddli mimovl\u00e1dna organiz\u00e1cia For better Future, ktor\u00e1 sa sna\u017e\u00ed presne o to, \u010do m\u00e1 uveden\u00e9 v n\u00e1zve &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,293,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-novinky","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adra.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}