GT Education & PASHA Bank Donate Trees to Tbilisi Schools for Children’s Day

Georgia Today (GT) Education is a monthly newspaper sent out to subscribing schools and organizations, including Peace Corps, which aims to promote active engagement in the English language and society by offering articles of a social and cultural nature for teachers to use in the classrooms to support and build on their regular language programs.

As part of its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) mission, GT Education decided to celebrate International Children’s Day by giving 10 Tbilisi schools 10 Caucasian Fir Tree saplings to plant in their school yards to raise pupils’ awareness of the need to care for the natural world around them. The project was supported by PASHA Bank.

“As announced earlier this year, PASHA Bank continues supporting green projects and initiatives,” said Anano Korkia, Head of PR and Marketing Department of PASHA Bank. “This time we eagerly joined a project organized by newspaper GT Education and on International Children’s Day gave ten tree saplings to each school to be planted in their yards. We firmly believe that providing green education to youth and their direct involvement in green projects will lead to them being more aware of and responsible towards environmental issues”.

Schools which received trees are: Newton, Hamilton, European School, Antoine de Saint-Exupery French-Georgian College, Georgian-American School, No.64, 6th Autonomous School, Opiza School and No.21.

“We would like to express our deepest thanks to Georgia Today and Pasha Bank for the donation of trees to our school,” said Tamar Mamsikashvili, Director of School 64 in Saburtalo. “We are always happy to be involved in such projects and try to keep our environment clean”.

The GT Education team, led by Editor-in-Chief Katie Davies, who is also the author of several popular books for teenagers, visited School 64 to present the trees to the pupils personally and held an after-planting competition based on an article in the latest GT Education newspaper about disabled children. Three prizes were given to pupils who correctly answered the given questions- copies of Katie’s Blood Omen books in Georgian, signed by the author.

GT Education will continue to publish its innovative and inspiring material with hopes of furthering youth participation in growing and bettering society around them and actively engaging in doing so.

Dimitri Dolaberidze