Presentation of the Project “Clean Air for Georgian Cities” at the Youth Press Club

On July 31, the presentation of the project “Clean Air for Georgian Cities” was held at youth press club of “Youth Initiatives & Civic Development Academic Center”. The presentation was done by Keti Murusidze, project coordinator, the foundation “Partnership for Road Safety”. During the meeting, the following issues were discussed: increasing the air quality level in Georgia, receiving the EU standards, necessity of technical check of transport.

Students expressed their interest towards the project “Clean Air for Georgia”; with the representative of the the foundation “Partnership for Road Safety”, they checked the air quality in the different regions with the use of web-page www.haeri.ge. At the end of the meeting, students received the information exercise-books, which Are prepared by the foundation.

The goal of the project “Clean Air for Georgian Cities” is to promote healthier, cleaner air throughout Georgia’s cities through implementing a powerful community-led advocacy and monitoring campaign. The project’s specific objective is to monitor air quality through a public, cost-effective monitoring system throughout Georgia. The project includes several components, such as arranging the eco clubs at schools and involving the children in the process of collecting data on air quality, and installing “air quality monitoring sensors” in different cities, which provide the information in the automated regime and create the database.

The project is being realized by the foundation “Partnership for Road Safety” and partner organizations “Elva” and “Eco Vision”.