New Playground on its Way!

Foundation for Progress has received a large grant from Save the Children and USAID to build a playground and garden at the Tbilisi Infant House orphanage. The orphanage houses 130 abandoned infants and toddlers. Everyday the children spend their time alone in one room with only a few toys and very little adult contact. There is no outside playground for the children to visit and the current outside garden features only dirt mounds, weeds, and a few damaged plastic playthings.

To help improve the children's much-needed social and physical development, Foundation for Progress will turn the useless garden area into a playground and garden for the children to enjoy. Having an outdoor play area will aid the children's motor skills, social development, and emotional growth that they would not otherwise have living confined in one room. The proposed project includes safe and durable play equipment, including slides, jungle gyms, and teeter-totters.


The current play area and garden is filled with weeds and dirt mounds.


The current plastic playthings in the garden are broken and useless.



Ideally, this is what the playground structure will look like.