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  • IMG 2375 GEORGIA. Kutaisi. 2007. An old woman walking on the square in front of a sanatorium. There are 22 sanatoria dating from the Soviet era in the region of Kutaisi. These are now occupied by around 7,000 refugees. Pensions amount to about 12 lari (6 euros) per month, which means they are living below the minimum poverty level.
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  • Patients in their room at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers look after them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment andused clothes to them too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • IMG_016 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Georgian refugees from Abkhazia getting gas cookers and gas lamps by Georgian officials. 11 families stay in this collective center that don’t have the supply of drinkable water, of gas and of the heating.
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  • IMG 4154 GEORGIA. Zugdidi. 2007. Woman on the UNOMIG bus (United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia) crossing the border with Abkhazia. The refugees cross the border to cultivate the land or to do small jobs in Abkhazia. The lack of opportunities has driven some of the IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), who formerly lived in the region of Gali near to the Northern border, which is now de facto closed, to return spontaneously to Abkhazia in search of work, at considerable risk to their lives, in the hope of earning a minimum income for their families.
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  • IMG_023 GEORGIA. Gori. 2009. The main square with the Stalin’s monument and the City hall in the background, the city of Gori is 70 km west of Tbilisi. After the outbreak of the war, the Russians took over the city for two weeks, the 80% of the population was forced to flee, the Russians shelled the city and its district too.
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  • IMG_011 GEORGIA. Tetriskaro’s district, 70 km west of Tbilisi. 2009. An elderly georgian refugee in the courtyard of her house in this new settlement, she moved in from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia. In this new settlement of 29 houses staying 9 families, at the moment, the houses and the surrounding lands were bought by the Georgian government. With a population of only 4,4 million people, this harsh situation for refugees has affected in impressive way at the general situation of the georgian society and has put serious problems and impediments at its development.
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  • IMG 0654 GEORGIA. Tskhneti. 2007. The wife of the sick man is crying. Free health care extends only to diagnosis and visits to the area polyclinic for the poorest refugees and children, medicines have to be bought. For urgent cases entailing hospitalisation, the State covers 75% of the cost of operations and the patient must pay 25%, and here too these sums are beyond the economic means of the refugees, while 100% of health care costs have to be borne by the rest of the population.
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  • IMG_025 GEORGIA. Karaleti, near Gori. 2009. The distribution to the refugees of used suits picked from UNIQLO (a brand for the young apparel) and Save the Children, an international NGO, in a new settlement, where 480 families moved in from South Ossetia and Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia.
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  • IMG_020 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Disable persons’ centre. A group of disable persons in a corridor. They lost their limbs during the war with Russia of August 2008. The refugees fled from the South Ossetia and Upper Abkhazia have a medical insurance that covers the costs for the admissions to hospitals.<br />
These disable persons get a benefit of 100 lari per month, about 50 euro from Georgian government.
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  • IMG_1010959_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. Internal displaced persons and an officer of the Georgian government seen at the collective center. They were forced to flee from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, after the war with Russia in 2008. They continue to face harsh living conditions with little hope of ever going home.
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  • IMG_0790_GEORGIA. Nikosi. 2011. A group of boys seen at the local parish church. Nikosi is located less than a kilometer from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia. This area has been the stage of intense firefights during the 2008 war against Russia, now the tension remains high along the “de facto” border. Many of the inhabitants of the area are still living beyond the last Georgian checkpoint, in a "no man's land" between Georgia and South Ossetia.
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  • A woman (1974 b.)  sitting in her living room showing the picture of her house that burned a few years ago. She is housewife, her husband works as a driver.They have got four children.
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  • A mentally disabled woman, 40 years-old. She currently lives in a tiny flat with her two daughters. She got married twice, the second husband died four years ago. She works washing floors at the local hospital.In the Altai region the guaranteed minimum income is the lowest of the Russia. The men live up to 60 years the women up to 70 years. There are many single mothers.Caritas supports single moms and families in their effort to create a healthly environment for the development of children. The intention is to break the vicious cycle of helplessness and to keep families together.
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  • IMG_1010978_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. Internal displaced persons seen at a meeting with officials of the Georgian government. They continue to face harsh living conditions with little hope of ever going to home in South Ossetia.
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  • Woman in her bed at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care of them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too.
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  • IMG_027 GEORGIA. Akhali Kheoba. 2009. Some georgian refugees coming back home. 140 families stay in this new settlement, they moved in from the South Ossetia.The way of life of the Georgian refugees is subsequently deteriorated after the outbreak of the war with Russia in August 2008. The community of the refugees asks for a great attention, understanding and compassion to give the opportunity to live in dignity and safety. This dramatic social situation is becoming an unsustainable burden for the society and the Georgian government without the support of international community.
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  • IMG 015 GEORGIA. Polnisi. 2009. A refugee coming from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia, sitting on a chair in her flat. She gets a benefit from the Georgian government of 22 lari per month, around 11 euro. The Georgian refugees were obliged to accept a radical change in their life-style, leaving behind them not only their material possessions but also something even more important:  what had given a meaning to their existence.
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  • IMG_001 GEORGIA. Shavshvebi. 2009. A new settlement built down the road Tbilisi-Gori, where 167 families moved in from South Ossetia. After the end of the war with Russia of August 2008, it was started up a building program of 4.542 new houses in the regions of Kvemo Kartli, Shida Kartli, Mtskheta-Tianeti and Kakheti. The houses have three rooms and the supplies of drinkable water, gas, electricity and heating.
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  • Unemployed single mother, she currently lives with her two children at the Caritas shelter “St. Sophia”. She left her household because her mother could not look after them. Single mothers with children can stay for up to two years at the Caritas center. Caritas supports single moms and families in their effort to create a healthly environment for the development of children. The intention is to break the vicious cycle of helplessness and to keep families together. According to official statistic 18% of the population live in extreme poverty. 32% of all families are single mother households with one or more children whose situation is especially difficult.
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  • IMG_003 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Refugees coming from Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia, she is hugging each other. They stay in a flat that can host up to three-four households. The collective centers are decaying building and they don’t have the supply of gas, heating and potable water.
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  • IMG 3064 GEORGIA. Rukhi. 2007. Elderly women in a collective center. Most of these lodgings are not supplied with drinking water, gas and heating. Pensions amount to about 12 lari (6 euros) per month, which means they are living below the minimum poverty level.
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  • IMG 2572 GEORGIA. Tsqaltubo. 2007. A refugees family living in a collective center’s flat. Each apartment may house up to three or four families. Most of these lodgings are not supplied with drinking water, gas and heating, the refugees live in run-down buildings. The collective centers and the sanatoriums, where most refugees live, have become small islands apart from the rest of society, where people have jealously kept their identity and their set of values.The local population is indifferent and hostile to the fate of the refugees, who are considered as foreigners with special privileges who have come to steal housing and jobs.
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  • IMG_024 GEORGIA. Shavshvebi. 2009. A group of georgian refugees in front of the World Food Program’s office. 167 georgian families stay in this new settlement, they moved in from the South Ossetia.They have a per capita income of only 22 per month, about 11 euro, which is below the minimum poverty level.
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  • IMG_012 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. A mother is looking after her child with flu in his bed. They moved in from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia. She is unemployed and gets a benefit from the Georgian government of 22 lari per month, around 11 euro. Her husband has left his family looking for a job. The refugees fled from South Ossetia and Upper Abkhazia have a medical insurance that covers the costs for the admissions to hospitals.
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  • IMG_009 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009.  Avlabari’s metro station. As a result of the war with Russia in the August 2008, 35.000 ossetian refugees fled in the North Ossetia and 167.000 Georgians were forced to leave their houses ( 25.000 refugees from South Ossetia and 6.000 from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia).<br />
Georgian refugees moved in 448 IDP shelters across their country. The majority of them, 296, are in Tbilisi.<br />
Public schools, kindergartens, research institutions, higher education institutions and student dormitories are typical of the buildings pressed into service to help them. <br />
Initially, 202 of Tbilisi’s public schools sheltered IDPs. These were later transferred to other buildings, including kindergartens, freeing up 164 schools. A further 24 establishments have been partly vacated. It has not been possible to vacate every school; to date; sixteen of them are still used as emergency accommodation.
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  • IMG_1020177_GEORGIA. Tsilkani. 2011. Boys playing football in a training ground near a new settlement along the road to Gori. The settlement houses about four hundred families coming from Tskhinvali and Akhalgori, in South Ossetia.
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  • A patient in the ward for mentally disabled women at Hospital n. 3. Two social workers provide used clothes and medicaments to 55 mentally disabled women. This building used to be a military facility during the former Czarist period.
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  • A man living with his daughter (born in 2005) in a small wooden house. He works as a truck driver but now he is jobless. His wife died three years ago. He did not get aid for his daughter by the governement, because he had not done the paperwork for the documents in time. The standard of living in Omsk is well below the surrounding provinces. Especially striking is the low life expectancy among men. Most die before they reach retirement.
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  • Patients in their room at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers assisting homeless people once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to them too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • IMG 3765 GEORGIA. Ingiri. 2007. A man stripping maize in a storehouse. In 1999 government inaugurated the “New Approach” policy, giving refugees the right to acquire land with the aim of creating conditions for the communities to become self-sufficient, via financial aid for setting up small economic activities, agriculture and livestock rearing.  Unfortunately, the economic development of these communities has ground to a halt because of a lack of funds and infrastructures.
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  • IMG 3133 GEORGIA. Rukhi. 2007. Woman grieving for her son who died in the civil war in Abkhazia. As a result of this political event, after the Abkhazian civil war  (1992-1993), some 300,000 Georgians were obliged to abandon their homes and livelihoods in Abkhazia.  Most of them left by sea, but others fled over land, across the mountains of Svaneti, where many of them, around 30,000, died in the difficult climatic conditions.
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  • IMG_026 GEORGIA. Gori’s district. 2009. The ceremony of delivery from the German Government, represented by the German ambassadress Patricia Flor, to Koba Subeliani, Minister for the Refugees of the Georgian Government, of 300 new houses for Georgian refugees fled from the South Ossetia and Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia. After the end of the war with Russia of August 2008, it was started a building program of 4.542 new house in the regions of Kvemo Kartli, Shida Kartli, Mtskheta-Tianeti and Kakheti. The houses have three rooms and have the supply of electricity, gas, heating and potable water. International community has given Georgian government 4,3 million dollars, of which 700 million dollars destined for the housing and the facilities.
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  • IMG 013 GEORGIA. Tserowani. 2009. A mourning in a house during a funeral. The Georgian war toll were in total 413 of which 169 soldiers, 228 civilians and 16 police officers, the wounded were 1.745, of which 1.198 soldiers and 547 civilians.<br />
The Russian authorities have confirmed 133 killed and 220 wounded instead.
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  • IMG_014 GEORGIA. Polnisi, a new settlement about 90 west of Tbilisi. 2009. Elderly georgian refugees stay in their flat. Most of the elderly live alone and they are the most vulnerable people of the community, together the children. 20 families moved in this new settlement from Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia. The way of life of the Georgians refugees is subsequently deteriorated after the outbreak of the war with Russia in August 2008.
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  • IMG_010 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Association for People in Need of Special Care Centre. A group of disable persons during a meeting with Georgian officials. 18 volunteers look after of 54 psychic disabled persons coming from Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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  • IMG_1020042_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. An internal displaced person steers a wheelbarrow carrying a baby and a bag of flour inside a refugee camp. Refugees continue to endure harsh conditions with little hope of ever going to home in South Ossetia.
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  • IMG_0934_GEORGIA. A new settlement near Gori. 2011. Brother and sister seen in their home. They were forced to flee with their family from Tskhinvali, after the war with Russia in 2008. Their father works in the restoration of the church of Nikosi. He used to be a restorer in South Ossetia, their mother can’t find a job.
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  • A elderly disabled pensioner, 89 years-old. She has got a broken femur and has breathing difficulty due to problems with the lungs. She lives alone in a tiny flat. She has got two daughters who live in a village 40 km from Barnaul. Two nurses take care for her once a week. Caritas provide health assistance for disabled, old, sick and poor people and signed an agreement with local Policlinic to care people without health coverage. In the Altai region the guaranteed minimum income is the lowest of the Russia. The men live up to 60 years the women up to 70 years.
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  • The ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care of them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • The ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care of them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too.
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  • The ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care for them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too.
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  • A group of people in their room at Schegarsk Internat. Some 200 disabled persons live at the Internat. Most of the them are Russian, there are a few Tatar. In Russia by burocratic reasons disabled person can not leave the Internats. Until very recently they would spend their live out in the Internat. From two-three years the politicians are talking about a “inclusion policy” to allow disabled persons to live in the society. These days “The Hidden World”, a NGO that collaborates with Caritas, provides used clothes and food to disabled persons at the Internat and take care for them some day in the summer camps in the countryside. Social workers tend to visit Internat every forthnights.There are eight Internats run by the Government in the Kuzbass region. There are Internats in every Russian region.
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  • Social workers provide food to homeless people behind the railway station. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave.
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  • IMG 3757 GEORGIA. Ingiri. 2007. A young woman running a nursery school.  30% of the refugees are children, these facilities are run by NGO’s that provide to support cultural and recreationals activities of the community.
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  • IMG 3103 GEORGIA. Rukhi. 2007. Family of refugees in a collective center, each apartment may house as many as three or four family groups. <br />
Most of these lodgings are run-down buildings and are not supplied with drinking water, gas and heating. The collective centers, where most refugees live, have become small islands apart from the rest of society, where people have jealously kept their identity and their set of values.<br />
The local population is indifferent and hostile to the fate of the refugees, who are considered as foreigners with special privileges who have come to steal housing and jobs.
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  • IMG 019 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. A teacher in a corridor of a school that hosts several class from kindergarten to High School, students coming from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The perspective for the youngest are better than the rest of population, young people are very skilled, many of them go to school or attend the university but they can not to find a job, the lack of better perspectives for their future has left them bewildered and discouraged. The Russian invasion will also have series consequences on the Georgian educational system, in fact a lot of schools have been set on fire, ransacked or damaged, the buildings are not sure because mined and there are still cluster unexploded bombs in the same areas. Because of the war a lot of schools host Georgian refugees.
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  • IMG_008 GEORGIA. Tetriskaro’s district, 70 km west of Tbilisi. 2009. Georgian refugees working the soil given him by the Georgian Government, refugee coming from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia. In this new settlement of 29 houses staying 9 families, to the moment, the houses and the surrounding lands were bought by the Georgian Government. With a population of only 4,4 million people, this harsh situation for refugees has affected in impressive way at the general situation of the georgian society and has put serious problems and impediments at its development.
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  • IMG_1020007_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. An internal displaced person seen at the collective center. He was forced to flee from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, after the war with Russia in 2008. Refugees continue to face harsh living conditions with little hope of ever going home.
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  • A young nurse standing in the hallway at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care for them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • IMG 022 GEORGIA. Tbilisi near the Cathedral of Sameba. 2009. The Faith is one of the people’s most important values for the Georgians. Among the Christian communities of the Near East, Georgia is one of the most ancient, for in 327 Christianity was declared to be the official state religion.
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  • IMG_007 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. An elderly georgian refugees coming from the Kodori Gorge, in the Upper Abkhazia staying in a decaying building. Most of the elderly live alone and they are the most vulnerable people of the community, together the children. Poverty and malnutrition are social phenomenons, as even psychologic traumas caused by experience of armed conflict. The income pro-capita of retired persons is 22 lari a month, 11 euro, which is below the minimum poverty level.
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  • IMG_006 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. A young refugee playing in a collective center's courtyard. The perspective for the youngest are better than the rest of population, young people are very skilled, many of them go to school or attend the university. Unfortunately during the last war with Russia, many scholastic buildings have been destroyed, burnt and ransacked, the scholastic facilities and the surrounding grounds were mined and there are still cluster unexploded bombs, shed on the ground. Many students and their teachers are refugees themselves and they will not be able to attend regularly the lessons, this could jeopardize the regularity of the school year.
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  • IMG_1020065_GEORGIA. Tsinamdzguriantkari. 2011. An internal displaced person standing in front of the collective center. She was forced to flee from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, after the war with Russia in 2008. Refugees continue to face harsh living conditions with little hope of ever going home.
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  • IMG_0846_GEORGIA. A new settlement near Gori. 2011. Internal displaced persons are repairing their home. Most of the IDP come from Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
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  • Patients in the hallway at the ward for homeless in the hospital n. 9. Caritas staff and social workers take care for them once a week. They provide sanitation items, medical treatment and used clothes to homeless too. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy.
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  • IMG_0001 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Slavjanka. 2015. Adolescents standing in front of the Caritas Child Center “Hope”. Children and teens tend to attend several courses such as Russian language, behavior, ethic, cooking and theatre.<br />
Slavjanka is a small village about 160 km south of Omsk, in the county of Novowarschavka, near to the border with Kazakhstan. Half of adults have no jobs and have low paying casual jobs. The alcohol consumption grows with the lack of any prospects. Almost every family is touched with alcoholism. The adults and children feel completely out of place and have difficulties integrating. Some children need psychological support to deal with family problems such as poverty, domestic violence and alcohol.
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  • IMG 3288 GEORGIA. Rukhi. 2007. Group of refugees in a corridor in a collective center. The unemployment rate among the refugees is very high; the lack of better perspectives for the future has disoriented and demoralized them. The refugees had a per capita income of only 14 lari (7 euros) per month, which is below the minimum poverty level.
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  • IMG_017 GEORGIA. Tserowani, a new settlement down the road Tbilisi-Gori, about 60 km west of Tbilisi. 2009. Georgian refugees in front of Georgian NGO’s office getting benefit of 25 lari, about 12 euro. 3.800 georgian families stay in this new settlement moved in from the South Ossetia.
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  • IMG_004 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. An elderly georgian refugees coming from Abkhazia during the first wave of refugees (1992-1993 war with the breakaway republic of Abkhazia), in a collective center. The lack of better perspectives for their future has left them bewildered and discouraged. Tackling these problems the Government of Tbilisi had created two organizations: the Ministry of Refugees and in the 1995 the Government of Abkhazia in exile, now after 14 years bolstering them, resources are running out.
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  • IMG 3957 GEORGIA. Zugdidi. 2007. A mother attending pediatric examination for his child, 30% of refugees are children. Health care is free for the poorest refugees and children in a series of polyclinics but only as regards diagnosis, visits and vaccinations, medicines have to be bought. For urgent cases entailing hospitalisation, the State covers 75% of the cost of operations and the patient must pay 25%., and here too these sums are beyond the economic means of the refugees, while 100% of health care costs have to be borne by the rest of the population.
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  • IMG_018 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. A collective center that hosts georgian refugees moved in from the South Ossetia and Upper Abkhazia, georgian refugees were displaced in infrastructures such as collective centers, sanatoria, hotels, schools and private houses.  Most of these lodgings are not supplied with drinking water, gas and heating.
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  • IMG_005 GEORGIA. Ergneti. 2009. A georgian house burnt and ransacked by the Russians army and the ossetian militia, in that the Russians called buffer zone, wide around 30 km, during the war of August 2008. The Russians army took over the cities of Poti, Zugdidi and Senaki in western Georgia, Gori in Central Georgia for two weeks, causing the flight of the 80% of the population of the city and the Kodori Gorge in the Upper Abkhazia as well.
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  • Homeless people receive food behind the railway station provided by Caritas. They receive a warm meal, clothing and medical care and are being helped in their social rehabilitation. Homeless people are a marginalized group in Russia who are detested in society. They are very often subject to minor assaults, aggravated assaults and even homicide; most cases are commonly not prosecuted. Homeless live in the pipes of the community heating system, in tents and makeshift cardboard houses, at landfills or parks. Homelessness affects men, women, young and old, babies and children. Their lives are in constant jeopardy. According to Lenin and Khrushchev policy, homeless, poor and disabled people would have to stay far away from ordinary people, the Soviet man had to be healthy, strong and brave.
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  • IMG 3774 GEORGIA. Ingiri. 2007. A woman in a collective center's courtyard.  Only in 2007 did the government set up an action plan to create conditions for communities to return to normal life. The collective centers, where most refugees live, have become small islands apart from the rest of society, where people have jealously kept their identity and their set of values.<br />
The local population is indifferent and hostile to the fate of the refugees, who are considered as foreigners with special privileges who have come to steal housing and jobs.
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