Current Grant

Promoting Healing Practices in the Feminist Movement 2022

1. Applicant: Creative Development Center (Teona Dalakishvili)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Promoting Healing Practices for Healthy Social Transformation

Project duration: 10 months

Budget: 30 000 GEL

The goal of the project is to teach self-care and collective care practices to female human rights defenders, feminist and queer activists. Care practices are planned to be introduced at three levels: at the individual level (accumulation of personal practice and experience); Caring at the organizational level (creating guidelines, resources and space) and at the community level (networking, spreading knowledge and caring for the beneficiaries of movements).

 

2. Applicant: Georgian Down Syndrome Association (Lia Tabatadze)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Radical Rest for More Support

Project duration: 4 months

Budget: 30 000 GEL

The goal of the project is for the mothers who are the founders and members of the Board of Directors of the Georgian Down Syndrome Association to analyze their past experiences and find peace and gather strength by leaving the daily routine.

 

3. Applicant: Identoba Youth (Mariam Kajaia)

Region: Adjara, Batumi

Project Title: Healers of Zemo Adjara

Project duration: 10 months

Budget: 30 000 GEL

The main goal of the project is to collect the oral knowledge of healer women living in the highlands of Adjara about local plants and biodiversity, document this information and distribute it widely in the form of a book that will serve as a guide for young healers.

 

4. Applicant: Femina (Nino Baisonashvili)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Teaching Healing Practices and Promoting Digital Skills in Women's Groups

Project duration: 8 months

Budget: 30 000 GEL

The goal of the project is to mentally strengthen 20 women with traumatic experiences and equip them with basic skills necessary for digital security. The working group will include Ukrainian women, queer and abused women from Georgia.

 

5. Applicant: Equality 17 (Nino bolkvadze)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Promoting the Safety and Well-being of Women Civic Activists

Project duration: 3 months

Budget: 29 965 GEL

The goals of the project are: to support/empower queer and feminist activist women living in Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi and Batumi - by raising their mental health care skills, as well as physical safety skills.

 

6. Applicant: Peace Research Center Tbilisi (Nino Lotishvili)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Cultivating Inner Peace for Women to Blossom

Project duration: 6 months

Budget: 30 000 GEL

The purpose of the project is to address women self-awareness issues and support their empowerment through various personal development techniques and organizing several educational retreats. The target group is NGO women activists.

 

7. Applicant: Feminist Collective (Nona Markariani)

Region: Tbilisi

Project Title: Cyber ​​Feminist Practices for Empowering Queer and Feminist Communities in Georgia

Project duration: 10 months

Budget: 28 770 GEL

The project serves primarily to initiate dialogue around modern online media and to create a democratic digital space for the queer and feminist community, where knowledge and experiences can be shared. Within the framework of the project, a collective will be created, which will develop a feminist infrastructure to facilitate relevant activities and discussions.

 

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