BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 24
By Tamilla Mammadova - Trend:
The European Union (EU) has supported sewing workshop run by nuns at the Kviratskhovloba Convent in Dedoplistskaro municipality in Georgian Kakheti, which is to produce 5,000 medical masks to respond to the crisis caused by the COVID-19, Trend reports with reference to the EU.
As reported, the nuns will hand over the masks to the Municipality City Hall to ensure their targeted distribution to the people at risk, medical staff and those in the front line of the fight against the pandemic.
The Dedoplistskaro Local Action Group (LAG), set up with the support of the EU, has announced a small grant competition in early April 2020 to help reduce the risk of spreading the infection at the time of pandemic. Following the LAG’s decision, the EU grant in the amount of 6,120 lari ($1,921) was awarded to the sewing workshop of the Convent.
The nuns won the first EU grant back in 2019, when they took part in the competition announced by Dedoplistskaro LAG and organization HEKS/EPER within the framework of the EU’s ENPARD program. With EU support, nuns built a sewing workshop and bought several sewing machines.
The EU-supported ENPARD project “Promoting Citizen Engagement for Economic Development (PROCEED)” is implemented by HEKS/EPER Georgia in partnership with the Biological Farming Association “Elkana”. The project aims at contributing to the diversification of local economy, increasing employment opportunities and reducing poverty in the Dedoplistskaro municipality of the Kakheti region.
The EU is supporting agriculture and rural development in Georgia through the ENPARD program. The program has been implemented in Georgia since 2013 with a total budget of 179.5 million euro.
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