Translation Bureau in Tsalenjikha

A translation bureau in Tsalenjikha - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality whose connection with abroad began with the parents' emigration and continues with the children's education. The schools of Tsalenjikha, Jvari and the villages partner with European schools, pupils take part in exchange programmes, teachers go on training courses, and head teachers apply for grants - and each of those steps calls for its own group of documents: a memorandum, a parental consent, a medical certificate, a curriculum description, a grant report. A village school has neither a translator nor a lawyer for that - and those two are exactly what we are.

Beside the schools, Tsalenjikha has its ordinary flows: families whose children are in Europe, old papers from the villages along the Enguri line, staff of the Jvari hydropower plant, hazelnut farmers. Tbilisi is five hours from Tsalenjikha and Zugdidi half an hour; the courier comes to Tsalenjikha on an agreed day, together with the Zugdidi visit.

A school and its partner - from memorandum to exchange

An international school partnership runs in three stages, each with its own group of documents - some from the foreign school into Georgian, some from the Georgian school into the partner's language:

The most important items in an exchange package are the parental consent and the medical information: the consent is drawn up before a Georgian notary, translated into the receiving country's language and apostilled - it is exactly this document that the accompanying teacher shows at the border. Allergy and medication information has to be written in the host family's language so that nothing is missed. Every pupil in the group has their documents prepared in one transliteration, following the passports, and where a group visa applies, the list and covering letter are in the same package.

A teacher abroad - training, qualifications, grants

Teachers from Tsalenjikha take part in European training courses, study visits and online programmes, and some go abroad on their teaching qualifications, to Georgian Sunday schools or international schools. For that we translate the teaching diploma and certificates, the level in the qualification scheme, a certificate of teaching experience, and the training invitation and the host's documents into Georgian for the school and the embassy - and after the course, the certificate into Georgian for the personnel file. Education grant applications - European programmes, embassies' small grants, foundations - are prepared in English with the curriculum, the budget and the outcomes described, and the reports in the donor's terminology. Pedagogical terminology - curriculum, competence, assessment system - has to match the European standard for an application to work in a competition.

Tsalenjikha families and the villages along the Enguri line

Beyond the schools, Tsalenjikha's families need what the whole of Samegrelo needs - a visa, a university, a power of attorney from Europe, a pension - and for families in the villages along the line, Soviet and pre-war papers are added, handled as they are in Zugdidi: a recognised document with a notarized Georgian translation, an unrecognised one through the special procedure the authority conducts. A grandmother's Russian certificate and a grandchild's exchange consent read as one family only if the surname is written with the same letters in both - so a Tsalenjikha family keeps one transliteration card that runs through every document for the school, the authority and the embassy.

School libraries and classrooms are a subject of their own, receiving books, equipment and teaching material from a partner: the donation letter and invoice in Georgian for customs, the acknowledgement and photo report in the partner's language, and, where equipment comes with a manual, its Georgian version for the teachers. Those documents need no certification and are prepared quickly.

In the households of Jvari hydropower plant staff, work and school papers often come together: a father's certificate for a project in English and a child's exchange consent in German travel in one envelope and come back to Tsalenjikha on one courier run.

Languages in orders from Tsalenjikha

Because of the schools' programmes, English is the unconditional leader in Tsalenjikha - partnerships, exchanges and grants all run in English; from the partner schools' countries come German, Polish, Italian and Czech, and French with European foundations. Russian is the language of old papers from the villages along the line, Greek and Spanish of parents in Europe; Ukrainian, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese are rare from Tsalenjikha.

The process for a school and a parent

Price and turnaround

A village school pays no more than a Tbilisi one - there is a single price list; the courier to Tsalenjikha is a separate line in the invoice and appears once for a whole group package. A guide to timing: a bilingual memorandum two to three days; one pupil's consent with notarization and an apostille two to four; a whole group a week; a grant application by the competition's date; a teacher's qualifications a week; a family certificate two to three days. A school taking part in several programmes a year has a contract with the bureau - a terminology base, one invoice at the end of the month, one manager - signed on our side by the lawyer Mariam Zumadze, sole trader (ID 30601010853). Nobody will learn from us about a pupil's allergy or a family's circumstances; an error of ours is corrected free of charge.

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