You may have noticed a new page called “Motus” appearing on social media several days ago. The coronavirus pandemic drove life online. Nowadays, access to the internet and digital technologies is one of the most essential things for many people around the world, as many online services can help us to continue parts of our normal lives when our movements are restricted. A lack of sufficiently developed digital infrastructure can leave people unconnected or unable to use services that require a high-quality internet connection. Unfortunately, in our country, we have so many students being unable to carry on getting a proper education. As it turns out, the critical circumstances inspired GZAAT Junior Kato Ediberidze to establish the charity organization “Motus” with five of her friends - Liza Dugladze, Mari Ezugbaia, Anna Nishnianidze, Mariam Suladze, and Elene Intskirveli. While the idea is brilliant, everything needed to be well thought and organized. To get more information about their plans, I interviewed two of the organization founders - Kato Ediberidze and Liza Dugladze.
-Kato, as I know, you initiated this bright idea. What was your inspiration to come up with establishing such an amazing organization?
-To tell the truth, the idea of creating “Motus” was one of the most spontaneous decisions of my life. Considering the critical situation nowadays, all of us are just locked at homes having only one source of communication with the outside world through social media. As I was scrolling the Facebook newsfeed, I came across the post shared by GZAAT. There was the link to the website called “Charte.ge”, where I saw the list of my peers who are waiting for our support. Similarly, they are facing pandemic restrictions, but they do not have enough equipment that keeps them from gaining at least basic education. As soon as I saw the list of amazing youngsters, it touched my heart, and I realized that I had to do something about it. What I did was that I immediately decided to share my emotions with my close friends.
-Liza, it is very interesting how you developed the idea provided by Kato? How is “Motus” going to work?
-As soon as Kato shared with us her feelings about the news she came across, all five of us gladly agreed to become a part of the charity. We wanted to create diverse content by which each side would be satisfied. As far as COVID-19 restrictions do not allow us to organize face-to-face meetings, the most convenient choice turned out to be the zoom lectures. We have already planned the first two meetings that will be experimental, and if it turns out to be successful, the lectures will become a constant form. To join these meetings, each interested person should contact us via Facebook or Instagram under the username Motus/მოტუსი. After our communication, we will provide all the necessary information, including bank account details on which they will transfer 10 GEL and the zoom meeting links. The entire collected money will be transferred to “Charte.ge”.
-Kato, could you tell us who will be the speakers of the first two lectures, and why did you choose them for your voluntary organization?
-The first two speakers will be Levan Gigineishvili and Rusudan Abramidze. As both of them appear in TV space very frequently, they are well-known by the Georgian community, so we thought that their “visit” would be quite interesting and appealing. When we asked them for permission, they happily agreed with our offer and are going to lead our sessions on Monday 21st December, and on Tuesday 22nd December at 7:00 pm.
-Liza, finally, could you please reveal what stands behind your foundation’s name - “Motus”?
-Motus is a Latin word meaning movement in English. So, we thought that it would be a symbolic explanation of our goals. We want our organization to be in constant movement that will help people in need to get access to proper education.
Let’s consider such an amazing initiative as an inspiration. By this example, we can see that a little bit of scrolling down social media does not always lead to bad consequences. Even in such critical situations, it is possible to come up with extremely beneficial ideas instead of complaining about our monotonous lives. We should always remember that there are people in much worse conditions who really need our help. So, if you can make somebody’s day brighter let’s not delay it!
Edited by Mashiko Lortkipanidze
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