Internship Program for former inmates

The Institute of Democracy together with partner organizations has been working on strengthening of former inmates and their family members in Ajara, Guria, and Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti region since February, 2017. Main aim of the project is to support education, development and employment of former inmates, inmates’ family members.

Working for strengthening the beneficiaries is initiated after the interview with the beneficiaries on the basis of an individual plan, the services of various directions panned in respect of individual skills and abilities and requirements.

Rehabilitation Services include:

➤ Legal Aid

➤ Re-qualification / Internship

➤ Development of vocational skills and abilities

➤ Employment and self-employment

➤ Supporting improvement of the health state.

Internship is one of the important components together with employment and self-employment. This program actively supports re-qualification of the beneficiaries in such companies and enterprises, enabling their further employment.

Training the welders serves as an example of a successful internship. Having undertaken welding courses in one of the iron enterprises, today he is manufacturing iron balconies, gates, doors, garden inventory and various iron items.

Internship program has been already applied by the Beneficiary in Ozurgeti region. Dato Kochalidze is one of the beneficiaries having been involved in internship component for strengthening his activity and studied meat procession. He has been running cattle-breeding and poultry-breeding for many years. Internship program assisted him in meat realization, as after completion of the program he started procession of the meat and supplying the stores.

Internship program was also applied by the beneficiaries in Samegrelo and Imereti region. In Imereti, a former inmate women is learning procession and production of the picture frames and souvenirs, whereas in Samegrelo region one beneficiary took Driving License Courses.

All beneficiaries are invited to get involved in the internship program, for which they should contact the Institute of Democracy in Ajara, “Guria Youth Resource Center”, “Tanaziari” in Samegrelo and Foundation “Abkhazinterkont” in Imereti region.

Program for Supporting Former Inmates, Inmates, Families and Probationers is implemented with the support of the European Union.