Youth in Georgia’s alpine village benefit from renovated sport school

More than 100 children in Georgia’s highland Mulakhi village in mountainous Svaneti region will soon be the beneficiaries of a modern, well-equipped sport school.

The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia of Georgia’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development has begun reconstruction and rehabilitation works at the Ilia Gavliani Sport School in Mulakhi to transform it from a dilapidated building into a modern facility with high quality gear.

Within the rehabilitation works, new infrastructure will be built to allow the sport school to offer adequate coaching and host sporting events for a range of disciplines including wrestling, alpinism, rock climbing and boxing.

The rehabilitation works also included installing a climbing wall, swimming pool and tennis court.

About 100 children will use the renovated sport school. Photo by mdf.org.ge

After being renovated and rehabilitated, the sport school was expected to be used for all types of competitive sporting events, team practice sessions and physical education classes.

Local officials said the sports complex would encourage tourism development and employ members of the local population.

Until now the school functioned in a one storey old farm building that had been built as a sports school in 1980. The existing building was badly damaged, was not equipped with sports equipment and did not fulfil its role as a sports school.