
Georgia: Education and practical skills
The level of primary and secondary education in Georgia is still low, especially in regional towns and rural areas. Therefore, People in Need helps improve and modernize the persistently obsolete educational system and teaching methods used in schools.
Hundreds of schools have begun to use documentary films as part of their teaching on current social issues, within the educational programme called One World at Schools, adopted, among others, by the Ministry of Education in Georgia. PIN has also complemented its work in schools with educational activities among the general public, media experts and documentary filmmakers focusing on global issues such as respect for human rights and environmental protection.
Ongoing aidORPast aid programmes

Human Rights Through Documentaries

Improving Vocational Education
In addition, the VET monitoring toolkit is being developed. The toolkit enables stakeholders participating in the coordination platform to monitor themselves changes in labour market needs. It is based on an analysis of the current agriculture VET provision through formal, non-formal and informal channels, farmer knowledge needs and a mapping of labour market needs in the agribusiness sector to identify mismatches.
People in Need works in close collaboration with the Information and Consultation Centre (ICC) to pilot apprenticeships schemes in commercial farms and promote other practical learning opportunities. Also, the organization pilots and tests a system of information messages and practical instruction videos for farmers.
The aim of the project, besides other things, is to promote positive role models in commercial farms and to make an agribusiness more attractive among school leavers, unemployed, farmers and rural population.

Education through documentary films
PIN Georgia used and developed PIN’s One World in Schools educational programme, which had originally started in Czech Republic in 2001. The One World in Schools methodology combines documentary films, other audiovisual aids and follow up activities and helps teachers to teach more effectively about complex social topics, such as human rights, democracy values, and conflict mediation or prevention.
To date, the methodology is used by more than 300 teachers from more than 130 schools all over Georgia. The organization People in Need closely cooperated with the Ministry of Education and Science and its Teachers Professional Development Centre. As a result of this cooperation, the One World in Schools methodology was included into the official curriculum of social science teachers’ professional development and consequently became available to all Georgian social science teachers.
Handing over the methodology to local partners, People in Need assisted with development of new educational toolkits (DVDs with films & teachers handbooks) and provided continuous support to the teachers and students (study visits, conferences, regular consultations).