12,000 IDPs received homes since 2012, says PM Kvirikashvili
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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.
Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said many IDPs had been living in unsanitary and poor conditions after fleeing their homes but through the Georgian Dream Government’s efforts, thousands now lived in a warm, safe place.
At today’s Governmental meeting Kvirikashvili said a further 209 more IDP families would soon become the owners of new apartments in capital Tbilisi.
We have gifted flats to a total of 11,854 internally displaced families since coming to power in 2012 and this process will continue,” he said.
This is our duty and it is very important these people have a permanent and stable home.”
Latest figures from 2014 released by Georgia’s Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia, stated there were 86,283 registered internally displaced families in Georgia, which was equal to 259,247 IDPs.
The majority of internally displaced families (34,314 families or 98,742 IDPs) were registered in capital Tbilisi.
The Government’s initiative involved gifting apartments to the most vulnerable IDPs who lived in sub-standard living conditions. These IDPs were gifted apartments in their name for the symbolic price of one GEL.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
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.
More than 100 Internally Displaced families will meet New Year in new apartments in Georgia.
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.
More than hundred Internally Displaced families were today gifted new homes in capital Tbilisi.
A further 198 internally displaced families will soon live in better conditions after they are gifted brand new apartments from the state.
120 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) will move to brand new appartments in Georgia’s historical town of Mtskheta next year.
445 internally displaced families from Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) received brand new apartments in central Georgian town of Gori to ring in the New Year 2018.
122 flats will be built on land plots owned by internally displaced persons (IDPs) with the financial support of the German Development Bank (KfW) in Georgia’s eastern region of Shida Kartli and Western Georgia, reports the press office of the Ministry of Health, Social Care and Internally Displaced People.