Partners Mentoring, Tbilisi Georgia

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Tina McGuinness, Joe Higgins and Fran Higgins spent over 24 hours flying from Grand Junction, Co. to Tbilisi, Georgia over the weekend of Jan. 15-16. We were Met by Andro Gigauri, Georgian Ministry of Justice, at the ariport at 1am Monday Jan. 17th and given a brief but beautiful tour of the City as we drove to our Hotel. Beautiful white and gold Christmas lights. Had a brief opportunity to discuss with Andro the Georgian Governtment's interest in reforming its juvenile justice system and they feel that Mentoring and Restorative Justice concepts are appropriate versus the past focus on incarceration. Andro tlak us about the Rose Revolution in 2004 of which he was part to do away with corruption in the Government. We will meet with Nini Phanjikdze, MOJ, this afternoon to better prepare for the next 2 weeks of meetigns, trainings, etc. The Georgian people are very kind and speak good English. We feel honnored to represent the PARTNERS MENTORING ASSOCIATION and to take Bob Moffits' concept of positive rolemodels for youth to this country that is eager to improve the lives of its young people. Joe Higgins

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