Akhalgori Youth School (AYS)

AYS was registered as a non-governmental organisation in 2009, after the war in August 2008. It is based in the Akhalgori/Leningor district of South Ossetia and runs extracurricular languages and computer classes for local children from Georgian, Ossetian and mixed families.

The school also functions as a community centre for the local population as a whole, hosting cultural and social events, and organising regular excursions to engage with Georgian and Ossetian interlocutors, thus promoting peaceful multi-ethnic co-habitation and co-operation across the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict divide.