Care for 20 homeless people in Tbilisi, Georgia

At Mkurnali we don't just give homeless youngsters somewhere to live.  We work hard to help them back into training, education or employment.  We are celebrating at the moment because two of our beneficiaries successfully applied for jobs. One of them is manufacturing glass-packages in window and door factory, while the other works as a consultant in construction materials shop.  We are very proud of them and grateful to you for giving us the time to get them to this point.  We can't do any of this work if we can't feed our young people!

Over the summer we have been actively working on turning our enamel workshop into a sustainable enterprise. We have already organized four exhibitions in large organizations. We also took part in a popular local folk culture festival called Art Gen, where we practically sold out all our work. With the money we received we bought more materials and now we are getting ready for the Folk Crafts Festival held by US Embassy on September 27^th.

Our young people who are involved in this project are demonstrating great enthusiasm, even those with jobs outside our organization gladly join us for crafting after work. They all understand that we still need to work very hard in order to gather enough materials to turn our workshop into a profitable entity, and they do everything they can to speed up the process. 

On July 18^th we hosted guests from Global Giving. They visited us during the Art Gen festival, and they gladly accepted our invitation to join us and see our work process.  Before that, we took them with us also to EnergoPro Georgia, where our boys provide technical IT support. There we met the head of department who spoke with our guests about our many years of cooperation.  Afterwards we went to “Turtle Lake” where the festival Art Gen was taking place. We invited our guests to our corner. Our Mkurnali beneficiaries were very happy to host these guests.  By giving through Global Giving, you don't just help us feed our residents and reach out to young people still on the streets, you also open doors to us for training and support.  We are very grateful to the whole Global Giving team - you included!