<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Georgia - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest news about Georgia with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your region!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:51:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Plant Conservation Association]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wild Plant Conservation Association, was established by members of the Tbilisi Institute of Botany. For eight years they taught botany to school children to two secondary schools in Tbilisi. The students were mostly internally displaced children from Abkhazia representing quite impoverished part of Georgian society.The project aimed to giving something positive for the children to focus on.<br />
The children studied botany, biology, techniques of plant propagation, worked at a greenhouse. The pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/wild-plant-conservation-association/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/wild-plant-conservation-association/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kveda Bakhvi School Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bakhvi is a beautiful village in the region of Guria. During his last trip to Georgia, the late Frank H. Greinke, one of the pioneer investors in Georgia, visited the village and its impoverished Secondary School. Frank was very moved by a warm welcome, but disturbed to witness the condition of the school not being repaired since 1986. The school building was missing half of the roof and the floor in two classrooms collapsed presenting a danger to children, as well as teachers. The school lacked]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/kveda-bakhvi-school-project/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/kveda-bakhvi-school-project/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children’s Department, National Cancer Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2001 the U.S. Air Force Captain Ben Ungerman, stationed in Georgia, raised money to renovate the common room in the Children&rsquo;s Department of National Cancer Center. Later that year Dr. Levan Bakanidze asked AFG to continue the work started by Captain Ungerman. AFG visited the Children&rsquo;s Department of the National Cancer Center. Even though, the newly refurbished common room was inviting, the rest of the Children&rsquo;s Department was appalling with dark and dingy hallways and roo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/childrens-department-national-cancer-center/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/childrens-department-national-cancer-center/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bobokvati Clinic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2003, AFG was approached by a Georgian doctor residing in New York with the request to visit the Bobokvati Clinic. According to the doctor they needed to know that, &ldquo;Someone, somewhere in the world cared. It would give them hope&rdquo;. Bobokvati Clinic is located in Adjara, Western Georgia and cares for 7,000 patients. This region used to be the most prosperous part of Georgia, where tourism, tea and citrus cultivation were profound. In 1993, the clinic was flooded and since then the g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/bobokvati-clinic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/bobokvati-clinic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Education Project for Vulnerable Children]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lena Kiladze has been the volunteer art teacher with the former street children at Dzegvi Orphanage/Bediani Village since 1995. Aware of the value of art and music in the development of these vulnerable children, Lena has now expanded the program to include socially unprotected children from other AFG sponsored projects. Her program includes teaching art by bringing volunteer artists and musicians to the children, taking the children to their first ballet, concert and museum as well as bringing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/art-education-project-for-vulnerable-children/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/art-education-project-for-vulnerable-children/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The First Step]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kaspi Orphanage was a state orphanage for children with mental and physical disabilities. The children of Kaspi Orphanage were badly neglected by the staff forced to live in inhuman and degrading living conditions.<br />
The First Step Foundation was started in 1998 by Jane Corboy, wife of the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, and Nino Kadagidze-Zhvania, widow of the former Prime Minister of Georgia.The First Step established pilot programs to provide appropriate care for children with special nee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/the-first-step/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/the-first-step/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Nino’s Medical Clinic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mother Elizabeth is the abbess of St. Nino&rsquo;s Nunnery in Poka, Javakheti. Poka is a five-hour drive south of Tbilisi. The 2,000 residents are ethnically Armenian Georgian citizens, who do not speak Georgian. This lively, energetic, jolly nun filled the nunnery with art works of her friend Georgian artists. According to Mother Elizabeth &ldquo;It is so freezing in Poka that for five months this small village is cut off from the rest of Georgia.&rdquo;In 2001 Mother Elizabeth established a sc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/st-ninos-medical-clinic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/st-ninos-medical-clinic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NGO New Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1998, Nata Rostomashvili and Mariam Dagundaridze started the School for children with mental and physical disabilities in Telavi, Kakheti Region.The objective was to provide sensitive day care and education to these children and an alternative to institutionalization.New Life strives to support each child&rsquo;s general education, social and working skills, for them to fully participate in the community.Today &ldquo;a new life&rdquo; is given to over 50 children with disabilities at the scho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ngo-new-life/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ngo-new-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NGO Napertskala]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the course of 35 years, Dalisa Kukuladze taught at the Gldani Orphanage for children with disabilities. Upon her retirement in 1990, she set up a weekend art school in her home for the orphans with mental disabilities. Art school was named Napertskala, which in English translates as a Spark. It provides a warm, caring, homelike atmosphere for children. With financial support of Geneva Initiative in Psychiatry Nepertskala was able to purchase a space for the school.<br />
Dalisa and her enthusiastic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ngo-napertskala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ngo-napertskala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2003, the father of a 9-year-old girl approached AFG for help. The girl had lost her hearing due to poor treatment of meningitis.AFG Director decided to visit the Clinic and meet Dr. Japaridze, the girl&rsquo;s surgeon. Dr. Japaridze, the Dean of the General Medical Faculty of Tbilisi State Medical University at the time, explained that the treatment for meningitis was too late and inadequate, thus resulting in unfortunate outcome for the girl. He also explained that there was a high rate of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ear-nose-and-throat-clinic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/ear-nose-and-throat-clinic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community Corner: Annual triathlon honors life of local trainer]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAVANNAH, Ga. &mdash; It&rsquo;s an athletic series that aims to promote &lsquo;the good life.&rsquo;Now in its fifth year, the &lsquo;Ride on Ryan Sprint Triathlon&rsquo; is dedicated to the memory Ryan Williams&ndash; a beloved trainer who passed away in 2013.Since then, Ryan&rsquo;s older sister, Stacie New, has made it her mission to keep his memory alive by giving back to the community.<br />
Click the arrow in the video box to watch our interview.<br />
Ride On RyanSaturday, April 288 a.m.L. Scott Ste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/community-corner-annual-triathlon-honors-life-of-local-trainer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/community-corner-annual-triathlon-honors-life-of-local-trainer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pooler welcomes new police chief]]></title><description><![CDATA[POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) &mdash; It&rsquo;s &nbsp;the day residents and the Pooler Police Department have been waiting for&ndash;Pooler&rsquo;s new police chief will officially step into his new role this week.Ashley Brown was sworn in as Pooler&rsquo;s new police chief at the city hall on March 26. Brown is a 24-year-veteran of the Savannah Police Department and has more than a dozen law enforcement honors.He says &ldquo;A lot of the challenges and issues that I&rsquo;ve dealt with in Savannah for th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/pooler-welcomes-new-police-chief/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/pooler-welcomes-new-police-chief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New scam targets callers with fake Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, Ga. &ndash; The Georgia Department of Law&rsquo;s Consumer Protection Unit has received a number of complaints about scammers posing as representatives from Publisher&rsquo;s Clearing House.<br />
The scammers call consumers and tell them they have won a big prize through the Publisher&rsquo;s Clearing House Sweepstakes. They then instruct the consumer to send several hundred dollars via wire transfer or a Green Dot MoneyPak card to secure their prize or pay for fees or taxes. Consumers who c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/new-scam-targets-callers-with-fake-publishers-clearing-house-sweepstakes-prize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/new-scam-targets-callers-with-fake-publishers-clearing-house-sweepstakes-prize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glynn County Police make arrest in carnival shooting]]></title><description><![CDATA[GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. &mdash; Glynn County police responded to a shooting at a carnival in the parking lot of the Colonial Mall at Glynn Place on March 24 around 10:15 p.m. Officers found a 16-year-old male with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. The victim was stabilized at the scene by emergency medical personnel and transported via helicopter to Memorial Hospital in Savannah. The victim received treatment for his injuries overnight and released from the hospital.<br />
As a result of the investigation int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/glynn-county-police-make-arrest-in-carnival-shooting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/glynn-county-police-make-arrest-in-carnival-shooting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 former presidents head to Atlanta for Zell Miller’s funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) &ndash; Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will share a pulpit as they eulogize former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller at an Atlanta church.<br />
The funeral Tuesday at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church is the second of three public services for Miller, who died Friday at the age of 86.<br />
Miller was a lifelong Democrat but is the only American to have delivered the keynote address at a Democratic and Republican national convention. He did it for Cli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/3-former-presidents-head-to-atlanta-for-zell-millers-funeral/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 11:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/3-former-presidents-head-to-atlanta-for-zell-millers-funeral/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard dog killed in armed robbery at Georgia liquor store]]></title><description><![CDATA[HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (AP) &mdash; Authorities say a guard dog was killed during a robbery at a Georgia liquor store.<br />
A Richmond County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office report says Blue was shot Friday by a masked robber at McBean Package Shop in Hephzibah (HEHP&rsquo;-sih-bah). No one has been arrested.<br />
The Augusta Chronicle reports Jensi Kyle, Blue&rsquo;s former owner, said Monday that she sold him to the store&rsquo;s owner when she stopped working there and employees would take turns bringing him home at ni]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/guard-dog-killed-in-armed-robbery-at-georgia-liquor-store/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/guard-dog-killed-in-armed-robbery-at-georgia-liquor-store/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robins Air Force Base F-15 relocated to be part of memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) &mdash; A fighter jet on display at an Air Force base in Georgia has been relocated to be part of a memorial.<br />
The Telegraph of Macon reports the F-15 on a pedestal that welcomed people to Robins Air Force Base for years was removed Saturday by the 402nd Maintenance Group.<br />
The base said in a Facebook post that the plane will be repainted before it becomes part of a planned memorial to deceased base workers at the Museum of Aviation.<br />
The plane had sat along state route 247]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/robins-air-force-base-f-15-relocated-to-be-part-of-memorial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 08:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/robins-air-force-base-f-15-relocated-to-be-part-of-memorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carter, Clinton, Bush to remember Zell Miller in Atlanta]]></title><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (AP) &mdash; Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will share a pulpit as they eulogize former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller at an Atlanta church.<br />
The funeral Tuesday at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church is the second of three public services for Miller, who died Friday at the age of 86.<br />
Miller was a lifelong Democrat but is the only American to have delivered the keynote address at a Democratic and Republican national convention. He did it for Cli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/carter-clinton-bush-to-remember-zell-miller-in-atlanta/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/carter-clinton-bush-to-remember-zell-miller-in-atlanta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigil held to remember 3-year-old who drowned in Hinesville pond]]></title><description><![CDATA[HINESVILLE, Ga., (WSAV) &mdash; The community of Hinesville is coming together to celebrate the life of a little boy taken too young. 3-year-old Ayiden James Quilter was found in a pond just yards away from his home. It was incredibly hard for such a tight knit community to hold it together at tonight&rsquo;s vigil.<br />
News 3 was invited to the vigil but asked not to bring cameras. But after receiving approval the emotion was present in every word and on every face. News 3 had a chance to speak to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/vigil-held-to-remember-3-year-old-who-drowned-in-hinesville-pond/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/vigil-held-to-remember-3-year-old-who-drowned-in-hinesville-pond/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s next for March for Our Lives?]]></title><description><![CDATA[SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) &ndash; More than a million students and adults took to the streets around the world on Saturday as a part of March for Our Lives.<br />
One of the more than 800 satellite marches took place in Savannah in response to the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead. The local event was hosted by two SCAD freshmen, Kylie Ruffino and Devyn Bauer.<br />
&ldquo;Saturday was one of the most humbling and empowering experiences I&rsquo;ve ever had,&rdquo; Ruffino said.<br />
After leading more]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/whats-next-for-march-for-our-lives/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/region/georgia/whats-next-for-march-for-our-lives/</guid></item></channel></rss>