The Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF) is a Georgian non-governmental organization improving the livelihood of the socially unprotected and disadvantaged people through programs that promote self-reliance, physical and mental well-being, community development, and emergency response throughout Georgia.
Ultimately, the Tbilisi Youth House seeks for each society member to develop a more meaningful ability to relate to the world around them, as human resources are the ultimate hope and future for Georgia and the world. It is the mission of the Tbilisi Youth House to provide a safe, loving and life-enhancing environment for all.
During the time of its existence, the Tbilisi Youth House offered help through numerous programs and activities to more than 14, 000 people. As it was described above, the first implemented program aimed at providing a safe environment for vulnerable local and IDP youth between the ages of 10 and 18 and access to academic and extra-curricular activities, as well as psychosocial rehabilitation services. Step by step, the organization managed to expand its activities and at present among its beneficiaries, besides the mentioned groups, are little children aged 4 to 12, elderly people, handicapped, street children and women. The major criteria for registering people to the implementing programs are: socially unprotected, IDPs, large families, invalid-parent children, handicapped children and youth, single-parent children, orphans, etc. There were many cases when different institutions/Boarding centers, such as SOS-Village/Georgia, Child and Environment, Georgian Centre for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, and others addressed the TYH with a request to enroll their children/youth to different programs carried out at the base of the TYHF. These relationships grew in a good tradition of involving TYH youth in peer-to-peer education, teaching them tolerance and charity. Therefore, TYHF succeeded in raising a whole generation of Georgian youth-volunteers who at present are actively involved in the TYHF everyday life through decision making and participation in different programs and activities. Regardless of gender, class or age many of them have a chance to get additional vocational education by participating in organizational trainings and special programs, to receive scholarships for their successful studies and work.