Our Projects – Community Building Pillars!
Kvali's founding principles are to implement and manage carefully defined and interrelated projects that are designed to work closely and support each other. Our projects strive to achieve a more educated and integrated community whose people are healthy, literate, and culturally aware. We are proud of our proven track record which includes successful implementation of the following key projects:
Distance Learning Courses
2005, Spring Semester. (Starting January 29)
Scientific Computing. (NYU Currant Math Institute)
Time: Sat 7 – 9 PM
Location: Kvali EAC
Instructors: Irakli Odisharia (NYU), Nick Sambelashvili (NYU), TA - Vakhtang Tsiskaridze(TSU)
Foreign Study in the USA for Graduate Students
This program fosters higher education opportunities in technical disciplines for Georgia's most gifted graduate students and helps them to hone their professional skills through placement in leading US Universities.
Georgian Student Association (GSA) at Rutgers University
This program provides an overall infrastructure to support the new Georgian students through mentoring, supervision and financial assistance as well as raising awareness about the Georgian-American community, Georgian culture, art and traditions, etc.
Tbilisi Education Information Center (EAC)
The Center will cater to the needs of all students in Georgia who are interested in pursuing their higher education in US Universities and it will also serve as a major hosting facility for visiting scholars, students and educators by providing them temporary working space, free high speed Internet access and more.
Kvali will co-sponsor the 2003 Second Annual U.S. Education Fair, which will be held in Tbilisi on October 3-5.
This program provides necessary bilingual ESL and Computer literacy classes to Georgian-speaking individuals and small groups as an effective means of achieving societal assimilation.
Social Service & Community Support Program
This program establishes and maintains care giving to alleviate suffering by providing shelter, donating food, clothing and medication, assisting with important legal, emigration, and tax issues, etc.
Online Publishing
“Kvali” – weekly online magazine, with daily news sections, introduces and advances independent mass media and online publishing, supports provocative articulation of ideas and development of analyses, critical thinking, and positive strategic action
Online Georgian-English Dictionary
Kvali deployed and maintains the first interactive Georgian-English dictionary to support its online publishing and ESL efforts.
Preserving Georgian Emigrant Archives
This program provides for the timeless collection and preservation of emigrants' archives as a means for conserving Georgian history, showing how Georgia Diaspora in the USA played a significant role in Georgian politics and history for over a century.
Promoting Georgian Literature-Georgian Writers Competition
This unique competition was created to motivate and support today's writers as they tackle deep issues within the Georgian community and try to return literature in Georgia back to the forefront of its country's cultural rejuvenation.
(Download report, in Georgian)
Promoting Georgian Art and Culture
This program seeks to preserve and promote the humanities by organizing and hosting events such as:
- Georgian Cultural Fair in the USA featuring authentic Georgian theater, dance, music, food, painting, sculptures.
- Exhibits in Tbilisi about Georgian historical monuments in the Middle East, with special emphasis on Georgian Diaspora's contribution in protecting Georgian history.
Radio-Bridge Collaboration
This informative series of international broadcasts enables Georgians who are living, studying and working in the USA to tell their own stories and share relevant experiences.