Tbilisi City Hall rolls out multiple schemes to support education and healthy lifestyles for impoverished youth

Tbilisi City Hall is delivering a wide range of initiatives to support education and promote healthy lifestyles among children and teenagers from families registered in the unified database for socially vulnerable households with a score below 70,000, according to the Tbilisi City Hall press office.

Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze provided an update on these active schemes, managed by the Municipal Department of Healthcare and Social Services, during today’s municipal government meeting.

“City Hall fully funds enrollment for under-18s from socially vulnerable families at the National Youth Palace, local sports clubs, swimming pools, youth community centres, and art schools. On average, these schemes provide financial backing for ten thousand students every year.

Young people can choose from a variety of extra-curricular activities, including music, choreography, elocution, fine and applied arts, and academic study groups. City Hall also covers training costs for football, gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, and various other sports,” Kakha Kaladze stated.

According to the Mayor, eligible students have the right to select one activity or club within each of the three core programmes, meaning an individual student can choose up to three different activities in total.

The Tbilisi Mayor further informed the public that access to these services can be requested by submitting a direct application to the administration of the respective educational or sports facility, or to the management of the National Youth Palace.