Gov’t gifts apartments to 107 internally displaced families
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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.
At today’s Governmental meeting Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said accommodation would be transferred into private ownership for 107 internally displaced families.
"Since 2012 the current Government of Georgia has gifted accommodation to 12,600 Internally Displaced families,” Kvirikashvili said at this afternoon’s meeting.
Currently there are about 280,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Georgia; about six percent of the country’s total population.
All of Georgia’s IDPs are either from Abkhazia or Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) – two regions of Georgia that are currently occupied by Russia.
Ethnic and political difficulties have led to the expulsion of Georgians from these territories, sometimes quite violently. Many people fled with only what they could carry, leaving for an uncertain future in other parts of Georgia.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
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 hundred Internally Displaced families were today gifted new homes in capital Tbilisi.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons is coming to Georgia today for a five-day visit to review the current situation of IDPs in Georgia.
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.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze held a meeting with 57 families today who were affected by the failure of cooperative construction projects to coalesce in homes some 20-30 years ago.