By Brian Gillikin | Program Manager
Dear friends,
After escaping the heat of Tbilisi for environs around the globe—Egypt, China, Turkey, Albania, and Guria (to name a few)—the Radarami team is back and ready to heat up the printing presses with Nos. 12, 13, and 14 in the Read & Connect Series.
But first some updates on what else has been going on with engaging Georgian readers in the global converstation.
On July 1st, Radarami held a book discussion on our 11th book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia in Tbilisi. Despite the heat, over 80 people attended, prompting a lively discussion and distibution of over 150 books (which was every book we'd brought).
Radarami expand our regional library distriubution this summer. In mid-June, we headed up to Khevsureti with Step Forward's 'Books for High Villages' initiative for the opening of a new library in the village of Barisakho. We also sent books to school and public libraries in Ozurgeti and to the Open Beach Library in Batumi.
Through collaboration with Peace Corps Georgia, 120 books were distributed to new Volunteers in 60 schools and NGOs throughout Georgia, and, with the help of Suze Rutherford, a particularily ambitious Peace Corps Volunteer, we were able to delivered 4 sets of books to the Kakheti Regional Development Foundation in Akhmeta and 8 sets to the Pankisi Women Club and Pankisi Women's Council for capacity-building for the women. Suze plans on setting up reading clubs in both Akhmeta and Pankisi, and we look forward to sending more books her way in the future.
With only a few small strings left to tie up, the two publications funded in part by the Open Society Foundation and by your generosity—The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah, and The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber—will be printed within the next few weeks. We look forward to the conversations that these to books will spark in our readership.
Likewise, Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is going through the last edits, and we’re gearing up for what will likely be a very exciting time of discussion and debate on Stalin's role and status in Georgia. We continue to be grateful for your support throughout the length of this project as well as for partial funding through the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
As we move into the coming months, we're looking to continue honing our skills, strengthing our mission, and spreading the global conversation one book and one reader at a time. Stay tuned for more exciting developments at Radarami.
If you have any other questions or comments, please email brian@radarami.org.
Thank you again for your generous support.
Best wishes,
The Radarami Team
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Levan Mujiri
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