"South Caucasus Peace Award" 2013
We are very proud to be the first initiator to the first Peace award in the South Caucasus, and very happy that our partners from Azerbaijan, Georgia and NGOs from other regions of South Caucasus have joined us to develop and realize this idea.
Democracy Today works with Nalbandyan village women almost 10 years. During those years different projects were realized. Nalbandyan villages located in Armavir Marz, and very close to the Turkish border.
In order to earn money and help family to keep both ends together mainly men left the village and went to abroad (mainly to Russian federation and Ukraine) for earning money. Women become the only who carried out the problems in village.
Democracy Today” NGO started “Young Rural Women’s Leadership” project in order to raise young women’s involvement in political life, empower them and . There were organized trainings, seminars and meetings to present participants skills and knowledge of being as future leaders aimed at increasing the role of young rural women in political life and forwarding their interests and ambitions in leadership.
"New hope through art and skills"- Counter Trafficking initiatives -implemented by "Democracy Today" and supported by KTK (Kvinna Till Kvinna) by LINDEX clothing chain in Sweden is innovative project, bringing business community to support empowering youth and providing them alternative available opportunities to start their professional life as members of small art crafts business incubator model.