The Committee, within the high-technological international project “Symphony of being Georgian – My, Your, Our Immigrants”, concluded the Memorandum on Cooperation with the National Media project “Etaloni” and the Modern Technological Online Platform “IZRUNE.GE”.

The document was signed by the Chair of the Committee, Beka Odisharia and the author of the media project and the online platform, Gocha Tkeshelashvili.

According to B. Odisharia, the Memorandum serves as the foundation for the excellent endeavor. “The people enjoy the fundamental right – to be happy, and this project allows the making of the people feel happy. Today, we witness the establishment of the endeavor, allowing us to fulfill our purpose, will and dream – to at the first stage, online get back our immigrants with the perspective of their physical return”, - he noted.

The project has long roots and has online present, and will have TV and wide-scale future.

“We do our best to get the platform to the air within a month. This project has a high interaction level. The program will be named as “Symphony of being Georgian – My, Your, Our Immigrants”. It will allow every family to send their greetings to Georgia as it will have a wide audience. We plan to provide interesting surprises as well and I believe that as of May 26 – Independence Day, the first 10 or 20 families participating in the project will, at our account, be brought to Georgia as the families taking care of the Georgian people and award them”, - he added.

According to G. Tkeshelashvili, the reality revealed that such projects are necessary for the Georgian diaspora.

He dwelt on the objectives of the Memorandum and technological solutions: “I would like to congratulate everyone as we are now able to solve these issues in a technological manner. The first program will be broadcasted on April 25 and the second on Independence Day. According to our average calculations, 200 000 migrant families will be engaged in the project monthly. We also intend to engage Sunday Schools as we have a real capacity of it”, - he stated.

The Memorandum envisages:

• Provision of the Georgian immigrants residing abroad and their families with the individual and adapted entertaining, and cognitive programs;
• Promotion of the Georgian immigrants residing abroad and their families by means of various media platforms;
• Promotion of the mother language in the immigrant families by means of the adapted educational methods;
• Encouragement of the Georgian immigrants residing abroad and their families with individual titles;
• Improvement of the efficiency of the Sunday Schools worldwide by means of the motivation of the children and encouragement;

The Committee, based on the Memorandum, undertakes to:

• Select the Georgian immigrants from various countries and their families for the start-up internet programs;
• Within the authorities stipulated under the legislation of Georgia, support the project, its objectives and idea within and beyond the country;
• In line with the competence under the law, assist the project in a solution of the legal, informative, communication and organizational issues.

The parties of the Memorandum express agreement to extend and strategically enhance the successful cooperation during the pilot period and further.

The event was attended by the First Vice-Speaker, Giorgi Volski, the Diaspora and Caucasus Issues Committee members, and the Director of the Diaspora Relations Department of the Foreign Ministry, Mukhran Gulagashvili.