Natakhtari Fund to Assist 156 Adolescents in Acquiring a Profession

The Natakhtari Fund has presented its report on completion of the fifth wave of fundraising in an event attended by the company management, media, project stakeholders and beneficiaries.

GEL 160,000 and 156 beneficiaries were announced by Natakhtari Fund as the figures for 2016-2017.

Cuneyt Arat, Managing Director of Natakhtari Company, and Manana Omarashvili, Head of Psychology Service of the Association ‘Our Home Georgia,’ provided detailed information to the audience about future plans of the Fund, its initiatives and the raised amount.

“18 years is the age when the State ceases to care for adolescents deprived of parental care. Natakhtari Fund starts working with adolescents under state care from the age of 15 so that they have profession and employment perspective when reaching the age of 18. We try to assist them in starting a decent life by acquiring the right education. We also focus on their psychological preparation and afterwards we ensure their adequate employment,” said Nikoloz Khundzakishvili, Corporate Director of Natakhtari Company.

“We know that we will be working with 156 beneficiaries for one year,” Omarashvili said. “This figure is based on the estimate of how many adolescents live in small family-type homes and how many are left the system. Unfortunately, the Fund cannot afford to help those beneficiaries who live with host families. Ideally, we’d like to strengthen the Fund and start working in this area as well to help them. In addition, we focus on social advocacy so that self-governments also assume some responsibility.”

“The Ministry of Health finances small family-type homes. Natakhtari Fund in turn show high corporate responsibility and is assisting adolescents who are over 18. This is very important and should serve as a model for all large businesses,” said Nutsa Odisharia, a representative of the Social Security Department of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs.

Natakhtari Company established The Natakhtari Fund in November 2011 and launched a new project Take Care of Future. Each year, over three months, within the charity campaign framework, from each sold bottle of Natakhtari Lemonade, 1, 3 and 5 Tetri are transferred to the Fund in accordance with the bottle volume. Over 5 years GEL 747,857 has been accumulated by the Fund and more than 300 adolescents were provided with various services in education and employment areas. The project is being implemented with the support of the Association ‘Our Home Georgia’ and with blessings of his Holiness and Beatitude the Patriarch of All Georgia.

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