The GENESIS Charity Clinic
The Genesis Association runs a Medical Clinic in Didube district of Tbilisi providing doctors consultations, full range of out-patient surgery and gynecology, diagnostic and minor emergency services to its charity target group - street children and orphans (around 1,000 children) and all societal groups of the district community. The clinic is supported by grants, individual donations and population co-payments and should gradually become self-supporting with the capacity to provide stable charitable medical care to the target charity group of GENESIS.

Medical Library
GENESIS has a modern medical library, which is regularly upgraded with up-to-date textbooks and medical publications and has access to on-line medical information.

Primary Healthcare Services for Impoverished Communities
From 2000 GENESIS set-up and runs community based urban and rural type primary healthcare centres/clinics providing both practical comprehensive primary healthcare services and Health Promotion support to 15,000 population of 12 villages of Khelvachauri (Adjara Autonomous Republic) and Lagodekhi (Khaketi region) regions and Didube district of Tbilisi.

30 types of Health Education booklets have been prepared for community Health seminars attended by up to 7,000 people

Beside the medical services, the project includes Advocacy activities aimed at bringing the needs and expectations of the poor to the attention of local and central government bodies. The programme facilitates increased transparency of governmental structures, and improved two-way information flows between government and NGOs.

Medical Aid to Orphanages Health Rehabilitation Programmes
GENESIS provides regular on-site diagnostic and consulting investigations to approximately 1,000 children living at nine orphanages and shelters in Georgia. GENESIS organises follow-up medical investigations, hospital treatment and surgical operations, long-term treatment and rehabilitation for children lacking parental care.

During the last three years, on behalf of the children lacking parental care GENESIS staff organised:

Medical Consultations - 6421;
Laboratory Investigations - 2486;
Instrumental Investigations - 911;
Accomplished Treatments - 1447;
Planned Surgical Operations - 31;
Recreation Holidays - 65.

Health Education Trainings for children
GENESIS carries out healthcare seminars aiming at early identification and timely prevention of deferent commonly met communicable and non-communicable diseases.

GENESIS currently provides such support to over 400 children.

Periodic Health Education on-site seminars are carried out at the shelters, orphanages, ordinary schools or at GENESIS office and cover the following health topics:

• First Medical Aid;
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Birth Control;
• HIV/AIDS;
• Alcohol and Drug addiction;
• Skin Diseases and necessary preventive hygiene;
• Physical Exercises for children with Abnormalities of Skeleton;
• How to avoid water-born diseases and Diarrhoea;
• Acute viral infections of upper respiratory tract - prevention and primary management.

Improving living conditions for orphans
When possible GENESIS channels and coordinates living conditions improving support (repair, heating, water supply, furnishing) for all its’ partner orphanages.

Supply of books to child-care providing institution
During 2006-2007, by the help of Lali Bejanishvili and Edit Sturdik, living in Vienna, GENESIS has purchased and delivered educational and reading books for Aspindza, Bodbe and Momavlis Sakhli Orphanages.

Income generation support for Orphans
Many of the orphanages and shelters already have small workshops often with incomplete machinery and tools for acquiring/developing vocational skills. GENESIS contributes sawing and embroidery material, design books, paints and textile, carpentry tools to individual orphans graduating the orphanages (Aspindza and Akhalgori orphanages, Momavlis Sakhli) - thus enabling them to produce hand-made items for self-sustaining purpose. In many cases, this support is the only hope for the survival.

Development of Home care and Social support for immobile members of Ortabatumi community. 05.2006-continuing (financed by Cordaid, The Netherlands)
The overall objective of the project is to improve life quality and health status of the most vulnerable groups of the population (handicapped, elderly, disabled and socially marginalized households) for whom Primary Healthcare Services delivered by the State or by the Genesis Primary Healthcare Centre in Ortabatumi is not accessible for different reasons (mainly due to absence of paying capacity or their immobility).

The support is delivered to the households by a mobile group of home-care nurses, who had been trained in advance. The home care service package includes: basic care, nursing care, doctor's consultation, provision of medical consumable and medicines, training of a patient and members of the household for acquiring of minor rehabilitation skills and social/communal support. The project works in high mountainous area and aims to evaluate the costs of Home-care services for its promotion to the attention of the State funding agencies, Insurance companies, Local Authorities.

Strengthening the Primary (out-patient) Healthcare Services for Ortabatumi Community in Georgia 03.2006-06.2007 (financed by Embassy of Japan)
The objective of the project was to improve Primary Healthcare Services for the impoverished rural villages (nine) of Ortabatumi Community, with total population of 10.000.

Project activities included (1) upgrading technical medical facilities of GENESIS’ Primary Healthcare Centre in Ortabatumi to improve the on-site and out-reach diagnostic services regularly provided to the targeted rural population by GENESIS; (2) setting-up medical rehabilitation service (as an additional PHC service package component) with the Primary Healthcare Centre of GENESIS in Ortabatumi Community, Khelvachauri region (Ajara Autonomic Republic of Georgia) to make the medical rehabilitation available for those members of the local community who suffer from congenital and acquired abnormalities of muscular-skeletal system and from different neural diseases. At the current stage, a Swiss medical Rehabilitation Expert Professor Jann, started a continual medical education of the local medical staff.