New Year’s message from President of Georgia:
“Let’s overcome all challenges through kindness”

"Let’s overcome all challenges through charity and kindness” - this is how a celebratory New Year’s message from the President of Georgia reads.

The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has congratulated Georgian population on the New Year from the Presidential Palace together with the First Lady Maka Chichua and Georgian philanthropists.

My fellow citizens, inside and outside our country, in the occupied territories; our parents, children, brothers and sisters, honourable soldiers of our country, I would like to congratulate on the New Year!

We have many goals to achieve in 2017; we must overcome economic problems, take steps toward strengthening and unifying our country, and reinforce our country's democracy. Today I would like to underscore, the force that will overcome these problems, is mostly in ourselves, in Georgian society, in our ability to love and support each other, share each other's problems, and overcome all challenges through charity and kindness.

Georgia's President and the First Lady celebrating New Year's Eve at the Presidential Palace. Photo by the President's press office.

Today I have decided to congratulate Georgian population on the New Year together with people, who are examples in this regard; together with people, who, without any self-interest, serve our community, neighbours, friends, and the state with their ideas. Their positive deeds and their hope for the future have always helped and strengthened our country. Today only a small part of Georgian philanthropists is present here, but with their help and through the strength of our society we will overcome all hardships. Happy New Year"- stated the President in the New Year's address.

On the New Year's reception, the President has hosted Georgian philanthropists, representatives of charitable foundations, businessmen, and non-governmental organizations working on social issues, which provide assistance to people with different social needs. The President has thanked them for their selfless acts and wished them success in the future.

Later President and the First Lady have congratulated a large, socially vulnerable family of Egadzes on the New Year while visiting the family today.

The President and the First Lady have gifted the family of Egadzes with a heater and a New Year's basket of presents. Photo by the President's press office.

The President has made a decision to visit the family of Egadzes on the New Year after the Administration of the President has received a letter from the family, asking for help.

The President has wished a happy birthday to a 13-years-old member of the family, Maia Egadze and fulfilled her New Year's wish - gifted her with a dance studio voucher.

The President has wished success in the Trampoline Youth Olypmics to a 15-years-old Mariam Egadze, who has achieved a significant success in trampolining and noted that he will carefully observe her performance.

The President and the First Lady have gifted the family of Egadzes with a heater and a New Year's basket of presents.