Tbilisi Kindergarten Entertains Diplomats

Tbilisi N162 municipal kindergarten welcomed special guests on Thursday – First Secretaries of the Embassies of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to Georgia: Mr. Daniyal Toishubekov and his wife from Kazakhstan and Mr. Vugar Mustafayev from Azerbaijan, were welcomed by the children and the head of the Tbilisi Municipal Kindergarten Management Agency, Temur Tordinava, with a spectacular show held as the part of the week dedicated to International Children’s Day. Members of the Parliament of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili and Mariam Jashi, Mtatsminda District Governor Gela Archvadze and Member of the Tbilisi City Assembly, Jaba Jishkariani, were also present at the event.

After the Dance of the Flowers performed by the children in the kindergarten yard as a welcome show, the honorary guests were led to the concert hall, where the director of the N162 Kindergarten, Nino Tsiklauri, delivered an opening speech and led a brief photo presentation of the work performed during past three years in the preschool institution, hailing the reforms carried out by the current administration of the Tbilisi City Hall.

The children sang in Georgian and English, and performed national and international dances, earning a standing ovation from the guests.

Director Tsiklauri thanked the audience for their visit and the parents of two pupils at the Kindergarten, Dimitri Dolaberidze and Katie Ruth Davies, for organizing the event.

Mrs Toishubekov then gifted an illustrated bilingual (English-Russian) book of Kazakh legends to the kindergarten library.

“The involvement of and cooperation with different international organizations with the purpose of improving the preschool education legislation of Georgia is crucial for the proper development of the system,” Tordinava stressed. “We have carried out significant reforms for the development of the preschool education institutions and this process is still in progress. We have ambitions, yet we also acknowledge that there are more challenges and in this reality, international involvement is crucial, especially in terms of improving legislation and sharing international experience”.

MP Mariam Jashi, who chairs the parliamentary committee for education and is intensively engaged in the work for the development of the preschool education legislation, including the introduction of national standards and authorization of kindergartens, praised the reforms carried out under the management of Tordinava, saying the progress in Tbilisi municipal kindergartens was obvious and impressive.

Dimitri Dolaberidze