Goals

Problem statement:

Youth work and informal education is facing great challenges in Georgia. Although during the last decade great and diverse experience has been accumulated by various organizations, so far it hasn’t been possible to collect this knowledge and make it available in one space. The level of people’s awareness in terms of informal education and youth work is very low. Also youth work beginners are facing a problem, because the educational resources in Georgian language that is required for carrying out their activities in a high quality - print literature as well as electronic materials - is insufficient, or often doesn’t exist at all; Lack of theoretical knowledge of issues is often reflected in the work of young activists/workers and poses greater threats to the recognition of the work of young activists in the future.

How will your initiative achieve/contribute to this change?

Due to this reality, we have decided to create the first collection of Georgian video-tutorials in an online space about theory and practice of youth work which will be given a form of online video-library in the long term. Within the scope of the project we would like to shoot at least 50 video-lectures where professional representatives of various NGO-s working in Georgia will share their knowledge about theoretical and practical issues in terms of informal education and youth work. Playlist of video-lectures will be placed on YouTube and will be publicly available for youth workers as well as any interested persons. During the video shootings we already agreed with the organization “Institute for Democratic Changes” which will allow us to use their office for filming. Besides we need additional equipment: 1) Microphone; 2) Studio lighting equipment; 3) Big wall whiteboard; 4) Video camera.

What will happen to your initiative and to the purchases?

This initiative has quite a long-term and great prospect. Within the scope of the project 50 video-lectures will be filmed, but at the end of this project we plan to continue “youth work library” and also film other types of videos: interviews with youth workers, various projects with beneficiaries, small plots about different projects, etc. In the long term “youth work library” may become a general uniting platform of video resources on informal education and youth work. If the initiative launch group will not be able to continue working on the platform development after the project, the purchased items will be given to the project supporting organization “Institute for Democratic Changes” or the organization which will take the responsibility on the long-term development of the platform.

How will initiative provide equal opportunity for men and women?

While filming video-lectures we will do our best to keep the balance and to film lectures among the professional representatives of organizations, equal number of women and men.