1

Every society is a container

of heterogeneous kinds of
identities.
Some of them are wide-
spread and commonly ac-
cepted, others are more
peculiar and less known.
The first strongly charac-
terize the face of the soci-
ety, but the second are
nonetheless part of it.
Aim of the Human Library
is to give voice to that mi-
nority part who has often
been victim of stigma and
preconception, and, since
stereotypes come from
poorly-advised judgement,
no other way than knowl-
edge is effective to break
them.
On Saturday 16
th
of No-
vember2013, in the won-
derful venue of the Na-
tional Parliamentary Library
of Georgia, Tbilisi met
diversity.
Twenty-seven human
books, namely persons
who decided to tell their
story, engaged construc-
tive and pleasant face by
face chats with readers
who decided to give
a chance to understand-
ing.
Ethnic minorities, reli-
gious minorities, persons
with disabilities, and other
disregarded, when not
oppugned, components of
Georgian society had the
opportunity to become
more known and ac-
cepted.
More than three hundred
readers took part to the
event, and feedbacks from
them and from the books
are really encouraging.
This was the third edition
of Human Library in Tbi-
lisi, and the improving
trend of results has per-
suaded the organizers of
the necessity to keep on
organizing such a won-
derful and effective activ-
ity, in order to make
it become a renowned
yearly appointment.
We hope this Human
Library really meant
a step forward in the path
toward social inclusion
and diversity understand-
ing, and, since both books
and readers declared to
be really satisfied, we can
reasonably think we
reached our goal.
massimo

November, 2013
DRONI
News
Hot news:
Big succes of Human Library!
Thank to all for coming.
Good bye caravana, it was a
great job!
International Day Against Facsim
and Anti-Semitism, Russian team
won football tournament.
Big event on Friday 29th, Youth
without borders is going to
finish!
ACCT in Hippodrome, we found
the place.
In this number:
Human Library
1
How one ball can make this
world a bit better.
2
Conflict transformation and
peacebuilding
3
Greetings from Ukraine
3
Hej Hej! - Sopo in Sweden.
4
Reading the book.
Preparation

2

Yes, how? This question se-
ems weird, because this
is only a ball, nothing more.
Some people can even say
that this is a game for little
kids. But DRONI tried to do
it on 9th of November du-
ring International Day Aga-
inst Facism and Anti-
Semitism.
We organised football tour-
nament t o pr omot e
to increase tolerance to-
wards people which belong
to different minority groups,
increase concern of society
with problem of fascism,
racism and Anti-Semitism
and counteract these pheno-
menon via promoting above
me nt i one d t ol e r a n c e
in sport. We gathered 6 te-
ams from various backgro-
unds as Georgian youth
from IDP settlement, Egyp-
tians, Iraqis, Azeri, Russians,
EVS volunteers from diffe-
rent countries. The aim
of the event was to incre-
ase the tolerance of the
participants towards diffe-
rent cultures and to spread
awareness about fascism,
racism and Anti-Semitism
problems. We wanted also
through the mean of foot-
ball, to spread a message of
brotherhood and sisterho-
od, friendship, respect and
fairness among people
of different genders and
coming from different co-
untries, regions, religions
and economic-status. Fur-
thermore, our long-term
objective is to help in buil-
ding a society of tolerance,
solidarity and full respect
for diversity.
Whole tournament went
smoothly, and a lot of peo-
ple came to support their
teams. In the big final te-
ams from Azerbaijan and
Russia met. After very fa-
scinated game Russia won
7:6. Congratulations not
only to the winners but to
all participants who tried
to make this world a little
bit better.
grelka
How one simple ball can help to make the world a bit
better?
Droni rules, and
not the kings!

Group photo.
Drawin the groups.
DRONI team.
Table with all results.
Group A Semi finals Final
IDP Russia 2 : 4
Egypt IDP 3 : 7
Russia Egypt 6 : 0


Russia Georgia 7 : 1

IDP Azerbaijan 2 : 5



Russia Azerbaijan 7 : 6 Group B
Georgia Azerbaijan 3 : 5
Iraq Georgia 1 : 1
Iraq Azerbaijan 7 : 2
3

The topic of training course
was Conflict Transforma-
tion and Peace Building
in Divided Societies, which
took place in Berlin, Ger-
many, from 12
th
of October
till 19
th
. Participants were
from 8 different countries.
Georgian team was repre-
sented by Anna Giorbelidze,
Ellen Kikalishvili, Mariam
Gabrielidze and Nino Magh-
lakelidze. During the train-
ing course we gained many
skills, like interviewing and
being interviewed, learned
how we can solve problems
without using force and
how we can change our-
selves to change the world.
joy here is that I can speak
my native language and peo-
ple actually understand me:)
What about the project it-
self? The main intention
of our gathering is to learn
how to write and implement
projects, with special atten-
tion to including people with
f e we r op p or t u n i t i e s .
We have 3 trainers, Ivana
and Magda from Macedonia
and Mykola, the president
of Institute. Mykola turn out
to be one of the most inspir-
ing and positive person I've
ever met, he has acomplished
so much regardless his sight
issues and taught as a lot
how to cooperate with peo-
ple with some kinds of dis-
abilities. It was a great ex-
perience to put myself in the
shoes of blind of deaf person
and what's more important
to find out what they actually
need and how can we help
in the proper way. Anyway
the topic not only concerns
I'm sending you hugs from
Chernihovka, a pictureresque
village somewhere in the
Western Ukraine in Carpa-
t h i a n m o u t a i n s .
Together with our DRONI
volunteers Giorgi Beridzishvili
and Tornike Bolokadze are
participating in training
course named "Accessible
projects for inclusive Europe"
organi zed by I nsti tute
of Ukrainian Studies.
Firs off all I have to say I'm so
happy to try genuine Ukrain-
ian cuisine: vareniki, borshch,
salo, chebureki and most tast-
ful sour cream I've ever tried.
The second thing I really en-
people with disabilities, but all
anyhow socially excluded
persons, like minorites, refu-
gees, homeless, homosexual,
people from rural areas etc.
Togheter with Armenian
friends from APY we hope
to organize peace-bridge con-
ference for conflicted ethinic-
ities representants and to
invite people from Georgia,
Abhazia, Armenia, Russia,
Azerbeijan and Turkey.
Here are some photos from
Georgian evening, you can be
proud of me:) It was an hon-
our to represent Sakartvelo.
Anna
Conflict Transformations and Peacebuilding in Divided
Sociaties
Greetings from Ukraine

Ukraine in my
eyes
Our fantastic team. Welcome to Georgia!
We played simulation game,
which gave us great opportu-
nity to get to know how gov-
ernment is working with
peace building. After that we
had trainings about Forum
Theater, which was new and
very interesting for us, as we
had a play, where we were
playing roles.
ani
Photo group.
Working hard.
4

Gambahidze str. 3/6
0179 Tbilisi
Georgia

Tel.: +99532306703
Faks: +99532 2920999
Facebook: https://
www.facebook.com/
droniorg
Youth Association
DRONI
because I've never seen so
beautiful colors in Autumn.
I am working in a Eurodesk
office and for the Molndal
Municipality. Generally, we
are helping young people to
transfer their initiatives into
the actions and projects.

First what I felt when I went
out from the Airport is that
its very calm here, they
never hurry, you will never
see crowded busses or trams
as in Tbilisi, too much polite
people, too much Fikas , No
sun, raining every time and
5pm its already night :) the
most popular phrase for for-
eigners: WINTER IS COM-
ING most of are very scared
because non of us knows how
hard it will be in Winter. The
things which I really like and
appreciate, how they take
care about nature. We are
recycling everything and not
wasting anything.
Hello lovely DRONI people
from Sweden. Im Sopo and
I was working as a EVS coor-
dinators in DRONI. As a lot
of things in my life , in case of
EVS everything happened vise
versa, before I was coordina-
tor and after one year I be-
came EVS volunteer :) But in
a same time it's more inter-
esting to see the process from
the different perspectives and
in a same time estimate my
work which I've done before.

I'm doing my EVS in Sweden in
beautiful city Goteborg. It's
already one month that I ar-
rived. In my point of view it
was perfect time to arrive
I start learning Swedish lan-
guage,it's very very hard. I've
never thought that there is
language difficult as Georgian
but Swedish is even worth.
Final I can say that I am very
happy that I choose this EVS,
everything is so different from
Georgia that I am sure I will
learn and change a lot of things
in a positive direction.
Ha en bra Dag :)
Hej Hej!


Edited by:
Brych Anna
bryszarda@gmail.com
+995 592 39 75 75
Grela Pawe
pawgre@o2.pl
+995 579 90 57 53
More info: https://www.facebook.com/ACCTbilisi