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“Children are one
third of our population and all of our future,” says the quote. Bearing this in
mind and aiming to develop critical thinking in children, Georgia Today
came up with the idea to create a new product. That’s how Kids Today appeared
on the newspaper market back in October 2005.
It was an unprecedented venture, the first
English-language children’s newspaper in Georgia. “We wanted to make something
great for our talented children. We wanted to help them with their English and
we wanted to make them feel special,” Eka Tsereteli, Manager of Kids Today,
expressed.
The project worked, and with all their efforts and
love for children, the Kids Today editorial staff created 33 issues full
of useful texts, exercises, interesting and educational articles, quizzes
decorated with pictures and colorful characters created by Kids Today
designer, artist Ruso Chikvaidze. Open for new ideas, Kids Today
reserved a special Reader’s Corner to publish compositions and letters of its
dear readers.
Striving for development and innovation, Kids
Today took another unprecedented step and launched the Future Journalist
Project. Ten pupils were selected from different schools in Georgia and put in
the shoes of real journalists for four weeks. After ten meetings with top
officials of different governmental organizations, businesses, and media, they
got down to work and produced ten articles published in this special issue of Kids
Today.
Georgia Today and Kids Today would like
to extend gratitude to all organizations that supported the idea and
contributed to turning this project into an unforgettable experience for
children. Special thanks to: Mr. Igael Porecki, Hotel Tbilisi Marriott, Ms.
Bela Tsipuria, Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Ms. Lena
Milosevic, British Council Georgia, Ms. Giovanna Barberis, UNICEF, Mr. Nika
Kavtaradze, Imedi-TV, Ms. Nunu Bendukidze and Mr. Jumber Khatiashvili, Vake
Swimming Pool, Mr. Ersel Goral and Mr. Guclu Batkin, TAV Georgia, Ms. Victoria
Shtorm and Mr. Davit Lomjaria, Pepsi Co., Ms. Rowena Cross-Najafi, the US
Embassy in Georgia, and Mr. Philip Sigwart, ProCredit Bank.
With this special issue and ten articles by future
journalists, Kids Today wants to thank its loyal readers and say
good-bye to them till September, when it will resume working and prepare an
even better paper, present more innovative and interesting projects, and keep
the same enthusiasm in working for the future generation of Georgia.
“We promise a completely revamped format, more
interesting content, and what is most important, a Kids Today website
that will enable interactive cooperation and closer links between the newspaper
and young readers,” George Sharashidze, General Manager of Georgia Today
outlined. “As for the Future Journalist Project, it was so successful that from
September we plan to widen its scale, increase the number of interns, and reach
out to more regions of Georgia.”
So, enjoy your summer holidays and with the start of new school year look
for the absolutely new and even more fascinating Kids Today.
Mariam Kobaladze
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