CSR: Grant Thornton Visits Children's Day Care Center

As part of Global Corporate Social Responsibility Day and as part of the global Grant Thornton initiative to unlock potential for growth in local communities, on 23rd September Grant Thornton Tbilisi staff spent the day at Tbilisi Children Day Care Center managed by World Vision Georgia.

“Growing together in the community” is part of a global initiative to help communities unlock their potential for growth in the 130 countries in which Grant Thornton operates.

“We are excited to join colleagues at World Vision in supporting kids at the Day Care Center,” said Nelson Petrosyan, managing partner of Grant Thornton. “Our people organized donations of clothing, books and toys and helped paint walls in the center. Our people spent the day interacting with children, playing with them and arranged a meal. We are keen to pay regular visits to these children. It’s important to continually support our local communities, stay connected. It is our way of giving back to communities that helped us become successful in what we do professionally.”

“This day will be remembered by our children for a long time because it was not the only work that Grant Thornton did and the presents they gave, this was love and care from Grant Thornton people which is very important for the children,” said Tata Mikeladze, Program Quality Assurance Manager at World Vision Georgia.

World Vision’s Day Care Crisis Intervention Center was established in 2014 in Tbilisi to give children living on the streets access to essential services and a safe and caring environment to promote and protect their educational and human rights. Each year, the center provides vulnerable children with medical, nutritional and psychological support. The long-term goal of the project is to help children turn their lives around and enable them to enter formal education.