Who are we?
Tbilisi Shelter City is a project founded by Center for Participation and Development in partnership with "Truth Hounds" aimed to provide temporary relocation (planned and emergency) and rehabilitation for human rights defenders at risk. The main beneficiaries of Tbilisi Shelter City are human rights defenders, civil activists and journalists from Central Asia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and the South Caucasus. In 2021, the project team is going to launch implementation of the program for beneficiaries from Mediterranean, CEE and the Balkans. The project was founded in 2016, during the time of the project implementation we have provided our professional services to more than 150 HRDs and their family members.
Our Locations
At the moment Tbilisi Shelter City hosts guests in three cities:
Tbilisi
Batumi
Telavi
Join us!
Find a link to our call for applications below (currently, we are not accepting applications):
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For security reasons, we do not identify our beneficiaries
For security reasons, we do not identify our beneficiaries
Human Rights Defender from Russia
'Only because of the Shelter and all the experience I received there, thanks to the team and specialists, thanks to such a delicate attitude towards me, I managed to return to my normal, good condition, I felt strong again'
Human Rights Defender from Kazakhstan
'My wife and I were able to receive quality medical care that is not available in our hometown."
Human Rights Defender from Uzbekistan
"The realization that democratically minded people from different parts of the world are actively beginning to unite around a common goal inspires me to pay maximum attention to protecting human rights and independent journalism."
Human Rights Defender from North Caucasus
"I began to cry right away. As soon as we arrived in Tbilisi. I suddenly found so much love that it could not be expressed otherwise... Nothing could be done about this happiness, except crying and hugging everyone who came forward and smiled...'
Human Rights Defender from Ukraine
'I remember the time when I came here, I was living my life automatically due to a terminal stage of emotional burnout, I was not feeling anything, I had no desires or strength... In a couple of months I caught myself thinking: 'wow, I can live as I used to before, not because I owe something, I can go walking because I want it and not because I must'
Shelter Retreat
Tbilisi Shelter City has developed program of the security retreats for NGOs and Networks. Security retreat is a workshop for the whole teams of organizations and networks during which HRDs can work with security trainers, art-therapists, psychologists and other counsels they need in order to enhance own security during short periods of time (from 3 to 10 days). Retreat also prescribes time for rest and respite.
In order to organize a retreat or inquire more details, please connect with us via this email marjanishvili.g@gmail.com or via the form in the end of this page.
In order to organize a retreat or inquire more details, please connect with us via this email marjanishvili.g@gmail.com or via the form in the end of this page.
Board
Sasha Delemenchuk
Svitlana Valko
Sebastiaan Van Der Zwaan
Masha Chichtchenkova
Simon Papuashvili
Team
Agit Mirzoev
Management consultant
Sasha Delemenchuk
Founder, director
Giorgi Marjanishvili
Administrator
Liudmila Batalina
Psychologist-supervisor
Keti Mgebrishvili
Psychologist
Anastasia Medko
Art-therapist
Chris Grzywatz
Senior Case-manager, English Teacher
Salome Mezurnishvili
Case-manager, Lawyer
Lasha Dzigrashvili
Case-manager, Medical doctor
Aleksandra Zurian
Case-manager, Visual Content Manager
David Gongadze
Case-manager, Psychotherapist
Mikheil Lazginiani
Case-manager, Legal and Administrative Assistant
Tamar Agatha Kapanadze
Communications Manager
Sopo Khutsishvili
Financial Manager
Maia Kapanadze
Housekeeper
Gallery
Our Partners
Contact
Почта: tbs.shelter@gmail.com
