The regional radio company "Rioni" aired a program prepared by the Fund "Sukhumi".

The program highlighted how the innovative e-platform "Voter Advise Application", which was created by the Fund “Sukhumi” for the parliamentary elections in 2020 operates since September 15; what are the goals of the platform and how it helps a citizen to make a choice; what work has been done to familiarize voters with the European model, study the local political landscape; how the platform is popularized; what is the position of ordinary voters, specialists.

The project is implemented with the support  of the Visegrad Fund

The Vote-O-Meter project is set to start in October 2019. Fund Sukhumi and its partners are currently preparing the project’s first steps, aiming to build a test version of the Vote-O-Meter until the end of the year.

The three partners will shortly bring in their expertise from PL, CZ, SK, helping the project to reach out to the Georgian society.

Please check back for updates, project social media accounts will soon be created.

Until then, we invite you to follow Fund Sukhumi’s work on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fsokhumi/

Who we are:
We are a group of women- internally displaced people (IDPs) who come together to establish a women’s non-governmental organisation in Kutaisi, Western Georgia in October, 1997. Our group was created after the Georgian population had to flee Abkhazia as a result of the armed conflict in 1992-1993. Having become IDPs we encountered a wide range of problems, which could only be solved by uniting and supporting each other. Even though there were other women’s organisations in Kutaisi, we realized that as women- IDPs we had deferent needs and our particular situation was more understandable to women from Abkhazia. 

 Founders of Fund are:

Alla Gamakharia                      Meri Gelashvili                 Nanuli Ramishvili           Zhanna Chabukiani

Our Fund was registered in 1997 (registration # 07) and reregistered in accordance to the requirements of Georgian Legislation in 1999 (registration # 05) by the Ministry of Justice of Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.

Our organisational mission:
Development of women’s activity through educational, legal, economic, social, cultural activities to increase women’s role in building a democratic society in Georgia, in the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Abkhazia, and achieving economic independence

Our vision:

Achieve gender equality and peace without violence.

Our organisational structure:
The Foundation is governed by the Board and its chairperson and is regulated by the charter and internal regulations. The Board is a permanent body consisting of 5 members, who meet quarterly. 
There are 28 employees in the organisation, all of whom work passionately with activists and volunteers to show them by example how our organisation makes contribution to the development of civil society and peace. Operational decisions are made by the chairperson of Foundation, whereas strategic decisions are made by the Board and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the organisation. 

The main directions of our organisation’s activity:

• * Woman and gender equality
• * Woman and peacebuilding
• * Woman and non-violent society
• * Work with youth

Types of our organisation’s activity:

• * Civil Education
• * Research
• * Information and Public awareness
• * Advocacy