Freecycle Tbilisi

🌍 ჩვენს ყოველდღიურ, პატარა ქმედებას შეუძლია ერთად დიდ ცვლილებაზე იმოქმედოს. თუ გინდა გარემოს დაცვაში წვლილი შეიტანო - დაიწყე ახლავე!

ევროკავშირის ინიციატივა „საქართველო მწვანე მომავლისკენ“ 16 მარტიდან იწყებს ციფრულ გამოწვევას — „აირჩიე გონივრულად“.

აირჩიე ერთი ან რამდენიმე „ცირკულარული“ ქმედება ყოველდღიურ ცხოვრებაში:
♻️ ნარჩენების შემცირება
🛠 ნივთების შეკეთება და ხელახლა გამოყენება
🍎 საკვები ნარჩენების შემცირება
🛍 იყიდე გონივრულად
📸 გადაიღე ფოტო ან ვიდეო, გაგვიზიარე შენი „მწვანე არჩევანი“ და დათაგე ევროკავშირის სოციალური მედიის გვერდები.
ჩართე მეგობრებიც და ერთად შევქმნათ პოზიტიური ცვლილება.

🏆 კამპანიის 3 გამარჯვებულს ელის პრიზები.
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🌍 Small actions we take every day can add up to big change. If you want to help protect the environment — start today.

From March 16, the European Union’s “Georgia Goes Green” initiative is launching a digital challenge called “Choose Smart.”

Choose one or more circular actions in your daily life:
♻️ Nothing to Waste – reduce waste
🛠 Repair & Reuse – give things a second life
🍎 Food Smart – reduce food waste
🛍 Buy Smart – conscious consumption
📸 Take a photo or film a video of your action, invite your friends and tag the EU Delegation’s social media pages.

🏆 At the end of the campaign, three winners will receive prizes.

At 3 a.m., I write two kinds of orders: morphine for pain, and shoes, socks, and a bus pass for the part we don’t chart.

They don’t teach the second kind in medical school. You learn it at the automatic doors, where the night breathes in cold and the day spits out sirens. In the ER, we cut clothes to save minutes, and then those minutes become a man shivering in a paper gown, staring at a vending machine as if it sells dignity.

The first time I noticed it, really noticed it, a woman stood by the discharge desk holding her sneakers like a secret. We’d cut her jeans for trauma access; now she had nothing dry to wear home. It was January. The security guard offered his hoodie. I offered my scarf. We both knew that wasn’t medicine, and also that it was exactly medicine.

So I bought a metal locker and wheeled it to the exit where no one looks anyone in the eye. I stocked it with sweatpants, T-shirts, toothbrushes, deodorant, pads, cheap gloves, granola bars, hand warmers, and bus passes. I taped a sign to the door: Take what you need. No one leaves barefoot.

The charge nurse named it the Dignity Locker and pretended she hated the sentimentality. Then she and the night crew started laundering lost-and-found and sneaking in donations. The security team sorted shoes by size on their dinner break. Housekeeping tucked notes into pockets—“You matter after midnight too.” A baker from the block dropped off a box of rolls labeled “For discharge.”

I also keep two “quiet boxes” at the bus stop across the street: socks, a beanie, a protein bar, a hand warmer, another bus pass. The boxes live under the bench where the wind collects. I don’t tell administration. I suspect they know.

Some nights the locker stays full. Some nights it empties like a pulse. Last week, a man we detoxed left a single coin in the shoe cubby, heads up, like a prayer for the next pair. A teenager taped a sketch to the door—her, in new sweatpants, with the words Still here written on the hem.

A blizzard hit on a Friday. Buses halted, cabs ghosted. We discharged a man with stitches, clean labs, and nowhere to go. He stood in the vestibule watching snow turn the streetlights into halos. I gave him a hoodie and two pairs of socks, and we heated leftover soup in a Styrofoam bowl in the break room microwave. “I don’t want to be a problem,” he said.

“You’re a person,” I said. “Problems are paperwork.”

At 5 a.m., the doors opened and a woman walked in carrying a plastic bag. She smelled like coffee and cold air. “For the locker,” she said, setting down new sneakers and a set of thermals. I recognized her from last month—paper gown, cut jeans, embarrassment like a bruise. She looked me in the eye now. “Someone left shoes in there for me. I got an interview. I start Monday. I figured—someone else might need the first steps.”

When I finally checked email, there was a note from the hospital CFO of all people. No emojis, no confetti—just this: “Noticed your locker. Elopement rates down. Fewer returns for exposure. Keep going.” The kind of approval that costs nothing and changes everything.

I still prescribe antibiotics, splints, fluids. But most nights, the order that matters is a pair of size nines and a bus ride that gets someone to a warmer morning. We are not just discharging bodies; we are releasing people back into a world that too often refuses to see them.

So we stock the locker. We tape the sign back up when the corners peel. We keep the quiet boxes full across the street. In a country that shouts about healthcare, we whisper a different promise at the door: No one leaves invisible.
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ENG ⤵️ ჩვენ სიამოვნებით ვთავაზობთ საზოგადოებრივ აქტივობებს უსაფრთხო და მყუდრო სივრცეში. 🫶

თუ გსურთ, რომ ნებაყოფლობით უმასპინძლოთ უფასო ქართულ ან ინგლისურენოვან ღონისძიებას, მოგვწერეთ პირად შეტყობინებაში. 🇬🇪🇺🇸📲

ვეძებთ მოხალისეებს შემდეგი ტიპის შეხვედრებისთვის:

მხარდაჭერის ჯგუფები
- დეპრესიის მხარდაჭერის ჯგუფი
- ქრონიკული დაავადებების მხარდაჭერის ჯგუფი
- ანონიმური ალკოჰოლიკების/დამოკიდებულების ჯგუფი
- მწუხარების მხარდაჭერის ჯგუფი
- სხვა ნებისმიერი იდეა (მივესალმებით)

გართობა
- თამაშების საღამო (ჩვენ გვაქვს უამრავი თამაში, პინგ-პონგი და ფეხბურთი)
- კინოს საღამო
- ხელოვნებისა და ხელნაკეთობების კლუბი (ბავშვებისთვის ან უფროსებისთვის)
- წიგნის კლუბი
- კითხვის კლუბი
- თემატური დისკუსიის ჯგუფები
- სხვა ნებისმიერი იდეა (მივესალმებით)

კულტურული
- ქართული/ინგლისური ენის გაცვლა
- ქართული სამზარეულოს სემინარები (ჩვენ გვაქვს სამზარეულო)
- სხვა ნებისმიერი იდეა (მივესალმებით)

We enjoy offering community activities in a safe and welcoming space. 🫶

If you’d like to volunteer to host a free Georgian or English language event, send us a DM or email us at [email protected] 🇬🇪🇺🇸📲

We are looking for volunteers for the below types of meetings:

Support groups
- Depression support group
- ⁠Chronic Illness support group
- ⁠Alcoholics/Addicts Anonymous
- ⁠Grief support group
- ⁠Any other (ideas welcome)

Fun
- Games night (we have so many games, ping pong & football)
- ⁠Movie night
- ⁠Arts & craft club (kids or adults)
- ⁠Book club
- ⁠Reading club
- ⁠Topic-based discussion groups
- ⁠Any other (ideas welcome)

Cultural
- ⁠Georgian/English language exchange
- ⁠Georgian cooking workshops (we have a kitchen)
- ⁠Any other (ideas welcome)

We are looking for donations for a local, independent school!! 🏫🎒🚸👩🏻‍🏫
We will collect the donations from you.

📝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲
- Notebooks and lined paper
- Pens, pencils, erasers, and sharpeners
- Colored pencils, markers, crayons
- Dry-erase markers and whiteboard erasers
- Highlighters and sticky notes
- Rulers, scissors, and glue sticks
- Folders and binders

📚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 & 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬
- English Children’s books (fiction or non-fiction for library)
- Educational games and puzzles
- Flashcards (math, vocab, etc.)
- Learning charts and posters

🎨 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 & 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬
- Construction paper, card stock
- Paints, brushes, and palettes
- Craft materials (beads, pipe cleaners, foam shapes, stickers)
- Musical instruments (if accepted, like small drums or tambourines)

🖥️ 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬
- Headphones or earbuds
- USB drives
- Calculators (basic and scientific)
- Gently used laptops or tablets (with chargers)

💖 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 & 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬
- Gift cards (for school supplies or books)
- Desk organizers, stamps, stickers
- Inspirational posters or cozy classroom decor