10,000 Georgian IDPs enjoy better living conditions
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More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
Millions of dollars has been allocated by the Government and offshore aid agencies to improve the lives and living conditions of IDPs (internally displaced persons), who are some of the country’s most vulnerable.
The Government, with financial support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) allocated 22,976 000 GEL ($12,092,631 USD) to improve living conditions for more than 10,000 refugees across the so-called occupation line in Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
Some of this money was spent on a new water reservoir, which was officially opened today in Plavismani village by Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari, USAID mission director Stephen Haykin, US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland and deputy executive director of Municipal Development Fund (MDF) Ilia Darchiashvili
The rehabilitation of Plavismani’s potable water supply system was part of a larger New Economic Opportunity (NEO) project, funded by USAID which is helping thousands of households along the so-called border with Georgia’s occupied territory.
A refugee settlement in Shavshebi village, Shida Kartli district of Georgia.
About 8,800 families in Gori municipality who live near the occupation line will be connected with a reliable gas supply by the end of the year, officials said today. The so-called border has been contested since the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008.
Meanwhile, more than 33 villages in Georgia’s eastern Shida Kartli region will be connected with gas for free after the central government allocated 19 million GEL to this project.
In addition, five refugee cottage settlements had their drainage systems cleaned and appropriate drainage channels established. In nine refugee settlements rehabilitation of the water supply system was carried out and for another five settlements repair work was carried out on the main trunk and domestic pipeline networks.
Furthermore, the bathrooms of more than 1,100 cottages within the refugee settlements were repaired.
Work already completed as part of the project has helped solve major water supply problems for refugees living at the collective centres.
Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be granted one-time financial assistance from the Government this winter to help them pay their gas and power bills.
Hundreds of Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres have been gifted apartments in their name for symbolic price of one GEL.
More than 100 Internally Displaced families will meet New Year in new apartments in Georgia.
The Georgian Government has announced a tender for a development company to provide apartments for Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres will be gifted apartments in their name for one GEL, the Ministry of Refugees says.
Families who were forced to flee their homes during armed conflict in Abkhazia and relocate to another region of Georgia have been offered new homes.
Assisting Georgia’s Internally Displaced People (IDPs) into quality accommodation, supporting agricultural sector development and implementing modern punishment methods in the justice sector are some of the priority areas of the Government of Georgia.
Hundreds of people displaced from Georgia’s breakaway regions, forced to flee their homes and live in sub-standard collective centres, have received new housing through a Government initiative to rehome vulnerable citizens.
IDP families were given the opportunity to find an appropriate vacant house in any rural area nationwide, and once a suitable home was found, the Government took responsibility for purchasing the property under the ‘House in a Village’ state program.
A major housing project worth almost 22 million GEL has launched in eastern Georgia’s Gori region to address the living conditions of hundreds of Georgia’s Internally Displaced People (IDPs), who lost their properties in the Russia-Georgia war in 2008.
More than hundred Internally Displaced families were today gifted new homes in capital Tbilisi.
Dozens of internally displaced people (IDPs) are enjoying a new lease on life after being gifted new apartments.
Today Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refuges, Sozar Subari, met the families who received new flats in capital Tbilisi’s Didi Dighomi district.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has completed a $52 million USD project that will improve the lives of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) living in Georgia.
Earlier today Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said 180 internally displaced families would be the latest recipients of new homes.
Dozens of Georgian families displaced by conflict are now the proud owners of new homes in Khashuri, in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region.
The Government of Georgia, through the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories Accommodation and Refugees, will soon hand over new living accommodation to 159 internally displaced families.
About 12,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) living in Georgia have been gifted new homes in the past four years through the Government’s initiative to rehome these vulnerable people.
Today the Government of Georgia gifted 30 Internally Displaced families with newly built and furnished apartments in capital Tbilisi.
More than a hundred families forced from their homes due to conflict on Georgian soil will be gifted new homes in the next few days.
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) says Georgia has managed to address vital issues to improve the lives of IDPs.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia has paid mortgage loans for 166 Internally Displaced families, the Ministry press office reports.
The Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia gifted flats to 100 eco-migrant families today.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons, Accommodation and Refugees has made a decision to buy flats for internally displaced families who live in wrecked or buildings of strategic importance.
About 58 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 Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
79 eco migrant families living in Tsalka have received accommodations from the government.