USAID completes $52m project in Georgia, improving lives of 40,000 IDPs
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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.
USAID’s Municipal Infrastructure and IDP Housing Rehabilitation project was implemented in Georgia for the past five years. Thanks to the project 40,000 IDPs in Georgia now enjoy better living conditions.
A special ceremony marking the conclusion of the project was held today in Georgia’s western town Khoni, and attended by honourable guests including USAID Caucasus Mission Director Douglas Ball and the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia Sozar Subari.
Several playgrounds were built in the settlement for the IDP families living in Khoni. Photo by mra.gov.ge.
During the ceremony the Government of Georgia gifted property ownership documents to 450 IDP families living in Khoni.Additionally, the Ministry of Energy of Georgia supplied these families with natural gas while USAID installed gas heaters for them.
Furthermore several playgrounds were built in the settlement for the IDP families living in Khoni.
Six repatriated families who returned to Georgia from neighbouring Azerbaijan are now the proud owners of homes that were gifted to them by the Government.
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.
Dozens of internally displaced people (IDPs) are enjoying a new lease on life after being gifted new apartments.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
More than a dozen internally displaced families now live in new apartments thanks to an international project to rehome Georgia’s vulnerable population.
Georgia’s Prime Minister has highlighted the efforts of United States (US) aid organisations and non-profit groups for supporting Georgia as developed its agricultural sector.
Two dozen schools in Georgia’s western Adjara region now have clean, modern bathrooms thanks to a $1.5 million USD grant to install new bathroom facilities and promote hygiene.
An illegal dumpsite in a mountainous resort in Georgia’s western Adjara region has been cleaned of garbage and is now being transformed into a recreational area.
USAID signed an agreement with the Georgian Ministry of Infrastructure today to carry out six projects in four municipalities.