DRONI Newsletter September2013

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tion? Mainly descriptions of

the projects and activities

which you took a part in.

There were a many of them

and we choose just a few

examples.

If you have some ideas about

articles, or you want to

carry on your own section

feel free to write to us

([email protected], paw-

[email protected]). We are waiting

for you!

Hello everyone after holi-

days, I think that all of us

didn’t realize that time went

so fast. I hope that you feel

relaxed and you will start

your work in new school

year with double power.

You wondering, what about

DRONI? July and August

went by coordinating, realiz-

ing and being a partner in

many various projects and

activities. As you can see,

DRONI don’t sleep, DRONI

rules, maybe sometimes are

drowsing, but it happens

even to the best one.

In September most of

DRONI gypsy camp are

moving to Kobuleti, and I

guess soon we will rename

this city for DRONIland :).

We want also focus on a

local activities, that’s why we

are looking for volunteers

with ideas and willing to help

in many different projects,

because there will be a lot of

them.

So, if you have some free

time don’t think, just do it

and DRONI will meet you

with open arms. Are you

wondering what you can

read about in holiday edi-

Hello people!

European Day of Languages

European Day of Languages In

DRONI we like any kind of

diversity and that’s why we

are planning to organise the

European Day of Languages

that happens every year on

26th of September .

The general objectives of this

day are to alert the public to

the importance of language

learning and intercultural un-

derstanding, to promote the

rich linguistic and cultural

diversity of Europe and to

encourage lifelong language

learning in and out of school.

So, as we think that these

aims are important, we are

preparing some express

language courses and, possi-

bly, also language exchanges

and some movie screenings

in original version.

Do you like languages? Do

you want to learn more

about them? Stay tuned and

see you on 26th!

Guillermo Garcia

September, 2013

DRONI NewsDroni rules, not the kings!

Hot news:

European Day of language is

coming soon, we are looking

for volunteers!

We want our domain back!

People prostesting under the

DRONI office.

Be prepare for new EVS vo-

lunteers, Caravan

crazy people!

Good bye Sopo and

Nini :( Wish you all the best .

Let’s conquere Kobuleti!

In this number:

European Day of languages 1

Discovering Tbilisi architec-ture 2Racha dream 2

Future is in our hand 2

Eco project 3

Georgia in my eyes 3

Green spirit 4

DRONI volunteer (Marco) relaxingduring vacation.

New friends, or new love?

Liako in Leszno! 5



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In July 2013 in Rustavi DRONI

together with british NGO

Commpact Europe held pro-

ject called "Fostering Intercul-tural Dialogue Through Archi-

tectural Heritage and Visual

Arts".

Programme of the exchange

was focused on discovering

architecture of Tbilisi and

improving photography and

videomaking skills.

Participants had an opportuni-

ty to take part in professional

photography workshops,

which was the base for 3 day

long photo shooting in Tbilisi.

People were asked capture

cultural diversity of the town

in their works. Below we

present some of final resultsof the project.

anna

to get to know each other.

The next day, there was orga-

nized a team-building activity

and a city game.

It was followed by the presen-

tations from each country

about the environmental situ-

ations and climate changes.

After that, there was held

environmental discussions,

what to do about the protec-

t ion o f env ironment.

On the 5th day, Campaign

was organized in order to plan

how to promote protecting

environment and how to tell

In July an Youth Exchange was

held in Armenia. Six countries

took part in this project: Mol-

dova, Armenia and Georgia. 5

participants attended this pro-

ject from DRONI: Nino Khati-

sashvili, Tinatin Bobokhidze,

Mariam Papashvili, Mate Bara-

mia and group leader Maka

Shulaia.

Project started on 11th of July,with the welcoming party,

which was organized by the

Georgian team. The aim of this

evening was to help participants

people about the environmen-

tal issues. We made a campa-

ign, on the street, we sewed

some eco-bags and then expo-

sed them to people, to let

them know, that in order to

be healthy, one needs to use

eco-bags instead of plastic-

bags. Everybody tried their

best.

In total, I can say that I’m very

satisfied with the Georgian

Group, they were quite active

and involved.

Makuna Sholaia

Discovering Tbilisi architecture and diversity

Future is in our hands

Racha dream

ecology, learn something new,

have fun, meet with uncle and

eat Bambi the goat .

Addition to those the ses-

sions, each had their tasks to

do, helping in the kitchen,

gathering wood on fire, or

filtrate the water. Week

passed very quickly, and the

group become so integrated

that the farewell tears were

endless.grelka

Raise your voice, make a

green choice! In august,

between 10 - 17 to Racha

came a group of young,

beautiful, high motivated

and talented people.Youth who want to change the

world, because if not they who

else? Mongols in the steppe?

Eskimos in the Arctic? Or

maybe pirates from Caribbean?

These people came to Georgia

to share their knowledge about

Droni rules, notthe kings!

Tytuł biuletynu

Fortune telling from the sticknotes.

Old irons, and other stuff. Praying woman

Guess where is it:)

Let’s copy our stairs!

To eat, or not to eat.

Maybe it’s cold, but we still having fun!

Now I will tell you somethingabout Supra



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New EVS volunteers, from

Slovakia and Poland came to

DRONI in the begining of

July. After a week of intro-

duction they began to workon their first project called

Eco Project. Our task was

to prepare presentations

and workshops that will be

able to enlarge the knowledge

and awareness of the partici-

pants about ecology.

We have prepared a presen-

tation that was given on Tues-

day, July 9, 2013, in DRONI

office. You might find there

statistics related to ecology,

global issues and how Slovakia

and Poland solve environ-

mental problems in their

countries. Examples can be

the creation of national parks

(in Poland 23, Slovakia 9),

trash segregation, more and

more bike paths, and runners

promoting a healthy lifestyle.

This has a positive impact on

the ecological development in

t h e s e c o u n t r i e s .

Two days later, on Thursday,

we organized a workshop on

alternative use of waste. What

you can do with the empty

bottles, old newspapers or

tetra pack packaging? As it

turns out you can do a lot.

Our ideas on this day were

houses for birds with bot-

tles, baskets for pens from

old newspapers and the

wallets of tetra pack packag-

ing. All come with a smile on

their face and a big commit-ment to participate in our

w o r k s h o p s .

We also prepared the same

presentation, but for kids

from Tbilisi Sea school, so we

changed it a little bit that it

could be understandable for

young children. I think, that

more kids enjoyed workshops

than presentation, they were

really involved in recycling old

trashes into a new more use-

f u l u s e f u l t h i n g s .

The main event of the project

was cleaning action. EVS vol-

unteers, local volunteers from

DRONI and kids from TSS

cleaned up the forest next to

Tbilisi Sea school. We wanted

to encourage kids to protect

t h e i r e n v i r o n m e n t .

To sum up, the world is big

and if we want to change

something without revolution,

we have to do it step by step,

like evolution.

grelka

about real life in Georgia.

People appear to be very nice

and helpful.

I will never forget time with

crazy Armenian driver from

Stepantsminda, riding on a car

trunk next to boxes of wine

from Sighnagi or our way back

from Yerevan to Tbilisi with 6

different drivers. But definitely

my best memory would be

hitchhiking in the police car

from Udabno, while visiting

our polish friends in their

restaurant. Police officers

were stopping over on our

Being a volunteer with quite a

low-budget you sometimes have

to make effort to plan your

spendings wisely.

Although the public transporta-

tion is quite cheap (but not

always very comfortable and

safe), being in Georgia you

should definitely try hitchhiking.

In my opinion the main advan-

tage of this way of travelling isnot about low costs, but the

fact that you have always a

chance to have a nice conversa-

tion and learn something new

way to show us marvelous

views, take some pictures and

tell us about history of the

region. They also asked some

shepherd to let me to ride his

horse. So basically I had my

first riding lesson in the early

morning hours just in the

middle of nowhere!

In the end I need to add

that it has never hap-

pened to me to waitmore than 10 minutes for

someone to stop. Thank you

caucasian drivers!!

anna

ECO project

Georgia in my eyes

„If we want to

change something

without revolution,

we have to do it

step by step, like

evolution”

Look at my horse, my horse is amazing.

Our fancy poster. by Wojtek Krawiec

Preparing pen holder

Let’s clean it kid!



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For whole August Droni held

short-term EVS ecological

project in Zugdidi, in which

took part participants from

Georgia, France, UnitedKindgdom, Slovakia and Po-

land with great support of

local youth from St. Giorgi

gymnasium.

The project’s main goal was

to increase ecological aware-

ness and pro-social attitude

among georgian teenagers.

We started our activities from

discovering the area through

the city game togheter with

our local guides, then all the

national groups prepared

presentation about their co-

untries connected with prepa-

ring national dishes. Our yo-

ung participans had chance to

taste such a delicacies as briti-

sh sweet scones, french cre-

pes, slovakian zemiakové plac-

ky and polish "russian pierogi".

Of course Georgian wouldn't

be Georgians if they didn't

host us with famous traditio-

nal Supra held in typi-

cal Megrelian house ran by a

lovely landlady.

Sounds nice, but

what about ecology? During

this relatively short period of

time we managed to organize

several different events devo-

ted to enviromental issues.

Green spirit of Zugdidi

activities such as basketball

match and energizers. There

were also Georgian lessons

for foreigners.

One of the most

interesting events were eco-

workshops in the ruins of

Rukhi castle. Slovakian teamshowed us how to make ba-

skets from old newspapers

and bird feeders, piggy banks

and other decoration from

plastic bottles.

The final event of

our project was flashmob on

the main square of Zugdidi.

Together with local young

volunteers performing some

Georgian and pop dances.During the action we distribu-

ted flyers about local enviro-

mental problems to the citi-

zens.

On weekends we

had opportunity to visit such

an amazing places like Mestia,

Abchazia and Batumi. It was

great to spend summertime inSamagrelo in a very hospitable

and warm house with such a

great company.

anna

We started with rubbish col-

lecting action on beatiful Ana-

klia seaside. The prize after

the effort was swimming and

sunbathing on freshly cleaned

beach:)

Couple of days later young-sters could enjoy the treasure

hunting eco-game organised in

old and mysterious Dadianis

botanical garden, even though

the weather turned out to be

very unpredictable, and we

had to finish our activity in

the heavy rain.

Almost everyday we

had workhops in St. Giorgi

gymnasium, and not only abo-

ut to ecology.Our volunteers

prepared social media presen-tation, we could learn Geor-

gian dances and had outside

„Amazing people,

sunny August

an awesome Kids”

Tata Beria

That’s how our activities mostlylooks like

Lost in the Zugdidis jungle.

Workshops.

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Gambahidze str. 3/6

0179 Tbilisi

Georgia

Tel.: +99532306703

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droniorg

Youth AssociationDRONI

the time spent in Poland. I was

working with children with

fewer opportunities who

couldn’t leave their home

town. I was working with 11

volunteer. Our duty was to

entertain them. I learnt how

to work in a team and indi-

vidually, how to be creative in

order to make children happy.

Except working we had op-

portunity to travel around

Poland, make bike-trips to

forest or lake, make bonfire,

barbecues and so on. I found

out that nothing is impossible.

I was afraid of living independ-

ently but it wasn’t difficult at

all. I did many things which

I’ve never done before: par-

ticipated in bike-trip, played

volleyball, travelled alone…

I am Liako. I am a volunteer at

Youth Association DRONI.

One day Polish EVS volunteer

told me about short-term EVS

vacancy in Poland. That time I

couldn’t even imagine that I

would go for it. But I wrote

motivation letter, made video

about me and in few days they

called me for interview.

When they called me and

informed me that I was se-

lected, I was happy and con-

fused at the same time. It was

unbelievable. I was kind of

afraid of….I don’t know of

many things. Now I am thank-

ful of Youth Association

DRONI to give me amazing

opportunity to make two

months EVS in Poland.

To be honest, I enjoyed a lot

My advice to every young

people is to make EVS, use

this opportunity to get experi-

ence, gain new skills, spend

amazing time, get new

friends….

Liako in Leszno, Poland.

Playing with kids

Edited by:

Brych Anna

[email protected]

+995 592 39 75 75

Grela Paweł

[email protected]

+995 579 90 57 53

Show and Act to Exchange

From 09th till 18th of September, 2013 at the end of the sea

season in Georgia, Kobuleti will turn to life again, because it will

host the most alive and energetic youth from following 6 EU and

Non-EU countries: Poland, Estonia, Italy, Ukraine, Armenia and of

course Georgia.

In total 48 Participants and 12 groups leaders will gather to make

this summer unforgettable for each of them. Project is financed

within Youth in Action Programme of the European Union.

The youth exchange Show and Act to Exchange is about 16-20 year old youth with and without

fewer opportunities, different social backgrounds and experiences. Our aim is to create an envi-

ronment where participants move beyond the cultural, social-economical and national boundaries

and have dialogue between each-other.

The youth exchange with its various non-formal education methods, team building activities,

amusing program, nice atmosphere etc. will help each participant to express themselves and be-come more self-confident and Presence of such a big group of children definitely will make this

little town alive for some more 10 days. Communication in foreign language will improve partici-

pants’ verbal and non-verbal communicational and language skills.

Our activities cover all Kobuleti, participants will have contact with local inhabitants, children in

neighborhood and those who will be interested to join our final exhibition in the forest, near the

beach opposite to 554 Aghmashenebeli str. Kobuleti, Georgia,

on

17th of September from 15:00 to 16:30.

Join our Final Event and enjoy the evening with us!

Organizer of the project: Youth Association DRONI

For more contact please contact

Mariam Diakonidze +995557335107 [email protected] / facebook/droniorg

mailto:[email protected]



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