The LEPL Youth Agency has completed the four-month phase of the youth project “Me, My Family and the State.” The project involved twenty-three universities, colleges, and youth centers. Over the course of several months, the project’s initiators met with and provided information to more than two thousand young people, of whom 330 participated directly in the project.
The participants presented their works for the competition. The project operated in four thematic areas: intergenerational relationships, family, migration, and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. At the same time, each competition work had to maintain the central theme – interconnection between the citizen, the family, and the state – which was expressed in the slogan: “We preserve the old and we seek the new.”
The Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary was actively engaged in the project from the outset.
The first-year students of the Faculty of Christian Psychology – Levan Khelaia and Saba Chuguashvili – submitted a short documentary film to the competition, which addressed the issue of internal migration, abandoned villages, and Georgian emigrants.
The fourth-year student of the Faculty of Christian Psychology, Giorgi Mchedlishvili, presented an essay to the competition on women’s and children’s rights, marriage and divorce, large families, and abortion.
On February 22, the final meeting of the participants was held in the exhibition hall of the Ilia Chavchavadze National Library, where forty best works were selected across four competition categories. Ninety students were awarded, as well as the universities that were actively involved in the project.
The film directed by Levan Khelaia and Saba Chuguashvili was named among the winners, and the authors were awarded the relevant certificates. Giorgi Mchedlishvili’s essay also won a prize, and he was likewise presented with a certificate.
A certificate of appreciation was also awarded to the Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary for its active participation in the youth project “Me, My Family and the State.”
The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to highlight and strengthen the role of the family as the foundation of the state, and, on the other hand, to raise awareness among young people from a demographic perspective.
The project is still ongoing and will conclude on May 17, the Day of the Sanctity of the Family. The winners of the competition have another pleasant surprise awaiting them: after the project ends, the Youth Agency promises them a five-day excursion.
