45 eco-migrant families to receive homes in rural Georgia
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45 families who moved away from their home areas due to landslide risk, earthquakes or other natural disasters will soon become the owners of new houses in different parts of Georgia.
It means that those families will have the opportunity to buy houses according to their preferences and move to their own new apartments that worth under 25,000 GEL.
This year some other 46 eco-migrant families have already been given new apartments.
The Ministry of IDPs will buy 45 houses for the eco-migrant families this year. Photo by the Ministry of IDPs
Since 2013 the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia has moved 347 families to safer locations across Georgia.
At the same time the Ministry of IDPs is also assisting internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) with village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products.
Within the framework of the state project, families can choose where in the village they want to have their new house. All the houses include plots of land for further production and income.
360 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) - have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in the western region of Imereti.
191 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in Kvemo Kartli.
About 95 families who moved away from their home areas due to landslide risk, earthquakes or other natural disasters are the happy owners of new apartments and agricultural lands.
About 71 families who moved away from their home areas due to landslide risk, earthquakes or other natural disasters are the happy owners of new apartments in Tetritskhari, a town in the country’s southeastern Kvemo Kartli region.
293 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in Kvemo Kartli.
649 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) - have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in the western region of Imereti.
Government of Georgia has legalized houses and agricultural lands to about 200 eco-migrant families in Tsalka municipality of the eastern Kvemo Kartli region.
The Government of Georgia, with the help of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will finance greenhouse farming for internally displaced families living near the occupation line, the Georgian Ministry of Refugees has stated.
Former Minister of Internally Displaced Persons, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari will chair the new Regional Management Agency at the government administration, the Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze announced today.