Over 250 IDP families receive flats in Tbilisi from gov't
Prime Minister Gakharia and IDP Minister Tikaradze hosted families to hand them keys to their new flats. Photo via Prime Minister's Page on Facebook.
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The Georgian government handed keys to their brand-new flats to 251 internally displaced families on Friday, with Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia telling reporters the policy of providing benefits to IDPs would continue.
In a celebratory event in Tbilisi on Friday evening, Gakharia and the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia Ekaterine Tikaradze hosted the families. Ambassador of Germany Hubert Knirsch also joined the occasion.
We have many displaced people who are in need of care from the government [...] These people, who had to leave their houses in the [2008] war, have been without homes since."
We know this [effort] is a drop in the sea, but we need to continue caring about these kids and celebrate days like this one," the PM said at the event.
The IDPs received flats in the "Dirsi settlement" of apartment blocks in Tbilisi, with Gakharia personally handing several families their keys on the eve of the 12th anniversary of the 2008 war, which displaced tens of thousands of citizens from the now-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
On Friday the government also announced 140 IDP families would receive flats in the resort town of Tskaltubo in Georgia's west. The Municipal Development Fund is also building six more residential bloks in the town where 560 families will receive apartments.
In total 140 IDP families will receive homes in the Georgian mineral bath resort of Tskaltubo, where the construction of two residential buildings has already been completed, announces the Georgian Ministry of Infrastructure.
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.
About 113 families who moved away from their home areas due to landslide risk, earthquakes or other natural disasters are the happy owners of new apartments in different regions of Georgia.
Today the Government of Georgia gifted 30 Internally Displaced families with newly built and furnished apartments in capital Tbilisi.
A total of 140 IDP families have received homes in a new residential building in the mineral resort town of Tskaltubo in western Georgia. 420 other IDP families will also receive apartments soon.
A total of 274 internally displaced families (IDPs) have received brand new flats in the western Georgian city of Kutaisi. The flats were distributed among the owners considering the number of members per each family.
Over 300 IDP families who lived in damaged buildings have received flats in newly built residential buildings in the western town of Zugdidi in the Samegrelo region.
The Georgian government will hand over new flats to 5,000 internally displaced families within two years, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.
Fifty-five families living in Vake and Saburtalo districts of the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi have received ownership documents of their flats, which they could not register for years, announces Tbilisi City Hall.