86 IDP families receive houses near occupation line

86 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), have received village houses with plots of land to produce their own agricultural products in Shida Kartli.

The Ministry of IDPs has bought village houses for more than 1,500 IDP families since 2013 including these 86 families.

This is one of the houses of the in total 86 internally displaced families in Shida Kartli. Photo by MRA Georgia

Visiting the families today, Sozar Subari, Georgian Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia, said the "A House in the Village” project is working very well.

Within the framework of the state project, families can choose where in the village they want to have their new house built. All the houses include plots of land for further production.