70 IDPs receive grants in western Georgia for small business

Seventy Internally Displaced families have been given grants in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region to start or develop small businesses.

• The grant program is financed by the European Union and its budget amounts to $810,006.

The program aims to support socioeconomic integration of IDPs and ensure their incomes in the long term perspective.

In total 475 people have been financed through the program.

The Minister of Refugees Sozar Subari and Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Governor Levan Sherozia viewed a bay leaf processing enterprise today in Samegrelo region, which was financed within the grant program.

The enterprise was established by Besik Khuntsaria – an IDP from occupied Abkhazia, and currently he employs 10 locals in the village Kheta, Samegrelo region.

The man also managed to open a shop and bakery in the village.