1. Every tenth person in Georgia is internally displaced and wants to go back
home
ART FOR PEACE
Status:Final submission
Project Leader:Davit Mirvelashvili
Target group: Internally displaced children in Georgia
Team of 3 members
3 months of already done activities
60 children participated
Future plans: 1 year project
2. Team of 3 organizers,5 teachers
and 5 volunteers visited
internally displaced kids 4 times,
organized 4 whole day ART lessons
60 kids were involved in the activity
Up to 40 paintings were exhibited in
Tbilisi (capital of Georgia)
Most paintings were sold and money
was contributed to local library of IDP settlement
4. • Project team was teaching kids art work: painting, making sculptures,
hand made jewelry. Kids were playing different warming up games,
were working together
• Project team has chosen Internally displaced kids because we have
seen, sometimes tension between conflict affected kids arises in the
settlement, They do not have resource to attend expensive art classes
or express themselves in any other activity. during these days kids
were working together in peace and harmony, they spent their energy
in art, in positive emotions
5. • The project aimed to let kids find themselves in art, find
talents in their personality, show public that they are very
talented and they should be integrated in social life.
• To count only hours spent on the ART lessons, volunteer
teachers and organizers worked 40 hours. Plus team was
preparing content and activities and organized 3 day
exhibition in Tbilisi. ORGA team has involved different
companies and organizations to support the project.
6. This action was effective as more children demanded to
participate, and participants demanded to continue the
project, this is why we have decided to find a way to
involve more children and make longer ART school for
different IDP settlements.
7. The project was inovative for Georgia, as there were no
other projects that offered free art lessons to internally
displaced kids. We have seen that this has worked out for
Georgia.
8. A lot of internally displaced people suffer around the
world. They wish to live in peace and harmony. ART
brings harmony to this people, especially children. We
hope to enlarge this project first in a region of Caucasus,
and than to spread the idea more widely
9. ART days ORGA Team
Davit Mirvelashvili, Ilia state university , from Georgia
Mirian Mamulashvili, University of Georgia, from
Georgia
Teona Dalakishvili, Ilia state university, from Georgia
