Alternative Education Academy

Alternative Education Academy (AEA) pursues multiple program directions to achieve it’s mission. It promotes learning through peer-education training and workshops on art and management; healthy lifestyles by organizing outdoor activities, hobby clubs, first aid courses; democratic principles by offering work shops on human rights; environmentally-conscious behavior by raising public awareness about environmental issues through demonstrations, yard clean-up campaigns, after-school environmental education, movie-making on environmental problems, Eco Gardens, and activities to re purpose litter into consumer goods. Alternative Education Academy is aiming to promote, available initiatives and non-formal education activities for youth in Georgia. AEA is trying to extend opportunities of local youth and children to self-express themselves in physical and intellectual fields, and actively participate by developing and implementing local youth projects. We want to contribute to changes in the society by providing the after-school education activities, in a form of non-formal education and volunteering. The overall aim is to change geographical and social isolation of young people in Rustavi and other small region cities to the active participation based on possibilities.