Slovakia financing five projects with €44,198 to help Georgia combat COVID-19
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Slovakia has allocated €44,198.05 for five projects for Georgia aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, announces the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Georgia.
Georgian non-governmental organisations submitted several proposals, of which the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Tbilisi, in cooperation with the Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation, evaluated and subsequently approved five projects, for a total amount of €44 198,05. Today, April 30, small grant agreements were signed to provide funding for the implementation of all approved projects, which will help to protect the population against this disease or contribute to the elimination of adverse economic consequences in less developed areas of Georgia", reads the press-release published by the embassy.
The five projects are:
- The charitable foundation Caritas Georgia will implement a project called Security Measures for Serving Teams, in which it can purchase the necessary protective equipment and materials for many volunteers who work in the field with the most vulnerable groups.
- The vocational training and retraining centre – Farmers' School in the project Maintaining livelihoods of smallholders will help especially farmers - women living in the village of Sagarejo, who as breadwinners, due to market closures, lost not only their income but also the opportunity to start a new agricultural season. The project will provide them with material support and professional guidance.
- A People in Need – Georgia project that aims to provide the necessary protective equipment and materials during COVID-19 to three institutions for patients with mental and physical disabilities that are at high risk for the transmission and spread of COVID-19.
- The non-profit organisation I block will implement the project of a mobile store in Guria that will help the municipality with the creation and application of an online platform for the operation of a mobile marketplace for farmers selling their products.
- The NGO Together for Real Change in the project COVID-19 Aid for Racha will visit elderly and suffering people in the remote areas of the Racha region and provide them with humanitarian, food and medical assistance as due to travel restrictions, many people have been left without the opportunity to communicate and contact the outside world.
The World Bank will provide $80 million to Georgia under the Fast Track COVID-19 Facility to mitigate the health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, announces the World Bank.
Czechia has given thermal scanners to Georgia’s western Zugdidi Screening Centre, which will be used to identify individuals that may have COVID-19 symptoms in the region.
Lithuania will allocate €100,000 for acquiring medical supplies made by Lithuanian companies as humanitarian assistance for Georgia, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine to help the countries better combat coronavirus pandemic.
The government of Poland has gifted over 500 liters of disinfectant, 22 units of spraying equipment and three heating devices for field tents to the Emergency Management Service of Georgia to help the country fight against the spread of coronavirus.
Six infected individuals have recovered from COVID-19 in Georgia increasing the total number of recoveries to 184. Meanwhile, Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze announced earlier today that at least 1,000 individuals will be tested for COVID-19 in Georgia per day.
Georgia has seven new cases of coronavirus increasing the total number of cases to 589. Meanwhile, the number of recoveries has increased to 215 as eight infected individuals have recovered. As of now, there are 364 infected individuals in Georgia; eight people have died.
Frontline health workers, local civil servants and other risk groups in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and the regions will receive a total of 40,000 protective face shields produced by Georgian company CaucasPack.
Slovakia is helping Georgia in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by offering €45,000 to purchase necessary equipment for a newly opened hospital in the village of Rukhi located about a kilometre from Enguri Bridge, which connects Russia-occupied Abkhazia with the rest of Georgia.
The government of Japan has given medical equipment worth $2.8 million in order to contribute to Georgia’s medium and long term socio-economic development, including enhancement of the medical system as well as help the country to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, announces the Embassy of Japan in Georgia.
Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Ivan Korcok visited Georgia earlier today and held a meeting with Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili to further strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation.