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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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  • 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 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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  • IMG_0004 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Novosibirsk. 2015. Unemployed single mother coming from Uzbekistan. She currently lives with her two children at the Caritas mother child shelter “St. Sophia”. She was studying to become a nurse. She was not able to finish school. 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_0021 RUSSIA. Western Siberia. Tomsk. 2015. A mother with her children attending a psicological consulting meeting at the Family Center opened in 2000. Two psicologists look after them. Single and divorced women with their husbands, addicted to alcohol or jobless, attend the Family center. Women do not have a higher education. The educational attainment level of the household head is strongly correlated with poverty. Caritas provides used clothes and food to them.They do the shopping with the mothers to teach them how to save up. Some single women work, others have a steady job with a low wage other are jobless. Families usually live in rent flat. They get an unemployment benefit by the government.
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  • IMG_002 GEORGIA. Akhali Kheoba. 2009. A new settlement built down the road Tbilisi-Gori, where 140 families moved in from South Ossetia, a refugee who comes back home after having tilled his soil. The Georgian government has bought houses and lands for the refugees. They have a per capita income of only 22 per month, about 11 euro, which is below the minimum poverty level.<br />
The rate of unemployment among the refugees is very high. The way of life of the georgians refugees is subsequently deteriorated after the outbreak of the war with Russia in August 2008. The dramatic social situation of the refugees of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is becoming an unsustainable burden for the society and the Georgian Government without the support of the international community.
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  • IMG 2039 GEORGIA. Tsqaltubo. 2007. A girl is making cakes in her flat. Most lodgings have no gas or drinking water supply, each apartment may house as many as three or four family groups. Prospects are better for young people than for the rest of the population, they have excellent vocational training and many of them go to school or university, but they have great difficulty in finding work, the unemployment rate among the refugees is very high;  the lack of better perspectives for the future has disoriented and demoralized them.
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  • Teens taking part Abracadabra party that took place in June 2015 for families and their children at the Caritas center. The life of many children consists of extreme poverty, unemployment, alcohol and drug addiction, neglect and violence due to excessive challenges of young parents and lack of financial support.
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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 2125 GEORGIA. Khoni. 2007. A group of young refugees walking on a road 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, who had a per capita income of only 14 lari (7 euros) per month, which is below the minimum poverty level, they risk depression and drug abuse.
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  • IMG_021 GEORGIA. Tbilisi. 2009. Collective center. Georgian refugee coming back to his flat. The collective centers are decaying building and don’t have the supply of gas, heating and potable water, every flat can host up to three-four households. The rate of unemployment is very high, after 16 years living in the limbo, the lack of better perspectives for their future has left them bewildered and discouraged. 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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