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Parenting course helps build better relationships in Romanian families

Three parents have become authorised trainers and have taught other parents how to improve their relationships with their children. The training encourages...

Complaint mechanism takes root in IDP communities

The boxes were designed to solicit feedback on World Vision’s food distributions and Social Community Centres and reflect World Vision’s desire to be...

Temo becomes better student & budding artist through Child Friendly Space

Temo’s real home sits in Achabeti, a village situated two kilometres away from Tskhinvali, the major city in South Ossetia. But for now, home for his four...

New skills open doors for Georgia’s displaced

The course was offered to females in each of the nine centres. SCCs were established three months ago to help empower people living within the new...

HIV and AIDS becomes ‘real’ for Georgian youth

Schools, World Vision-supported Youth Centres and World Vision ‘Health Care Cabinets’ hosted the events in three different Public Health/HIV and AIDS (PHHA...

Inclusive kindergartens pave way for integrated school education in Georgia

Initially Georgia’s three largest cities; Kutaisi, Batumi, and Tbilisi agreed to allocate spaces for these children in the Georgian state-owned...

Georgia’s anti-trafficking programme three years on stays focused on youth

The need to improve the country’s identification and referral process for victims of trafficking saw World Vision establish a Social Assistance to...

Struggling families move into new homes ahead of Romania’s winter

Each house has three rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a 500 square metre yard. In every room there is a glazed-stove, every child has his or her own bed...

Street children perform fairytale and take steps towards better life

The streets of Georgia’s second largest city, Kutaisi, are home to more than 100 children. Here, World Vision’s LIFE project helps children improve their...

Complaints boxes help Georgia’s displaced voice concerns

Nearly 20,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are living in 37 settlements in Georgia following last year’s conflict between Russia and Georgia over...

Social centres to give Georgia’s displaced sense of community

This October, World Vision Georgia, together with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) through funding from the U.S. government...

Georgia’s farmers impacted by conflict get head start on harvest

The damage inflicted by the August conflict over South Ossetia had far reaching consequences for those working in the agricultural sector, with lost...

Georgia: long-term needs of 26,000 displaced prime concern one year after conflict

“At the beginning of the conflict World Vision tried to meet the basic, most immediate needs of the tens of thousands of people who flooded into Tbilisi...

Social Community Centres to break ground in IDP settlements

Funded by the US State Department the SCC project is a continuation of World Vision’s ongoing work to help individuals and communities affected by the...

New payment system benefits microfinance clients & improves efficiency

This newly adapted method of payment is already in use in Georgia with people using these machines to pay mobile phone bills, Internet and utility expenses...

Monica defies the odds & sets medicine in her sight

Monica P. lives with her father, step-mother and her two step-brothers in a mud-brick two-roomed house with neither electricity nor running water. Her...

Former beggar, Giorgi, 12, now enjoys school & karate

“Sometimes I got 5 GEL (US$2) a day, sometimes even less but still we could buy bread and tea with this money”, he says. But when a World Vision Social...

Single mother raises daughter on her own with help of small loans

Marina Gabrichidze, 42, has worked since age 15; she can’t remember a time when she wasn’t knitting or embroidering. Her grandmother taught her how to knit...

Georgia: textbooks for thousands of children in former conflict zone

“I didn’t have textbooks for Music and English; my sister for Geography. I was borrowing books from other children on the days when we didn’t have that...

Georgia: 6 months after conflict World Vision continues to help thousands displaced

At its height, the conflict displaced an estimated 180,000 people with Georgia bearing most of the brunt. Tbilisi swelled in population by nearly 10%...

Romanian farmers on their way to better future

“I planted one tomato and one cabbage and took good care of it and watered it. And when I ate my tomato it was the sweetest one that I’ve ever had”, says...

Teenage peer educators teach youth about HIV and AIDS

World Vision’s health and HIV and AIDS programme supported the peer educators to arrange different activities throughout Georgia to raise awareness of the...

Inclusive kindergarten helps reunite family

In his early years Bombora was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, and Keto, a single mother, could not provide him with the special care her son needed, so she...

World Vision peace projects bring hope for Abkhaz youth

There is hope, however. World Vision set up Peace Clubs in Abkhazia in January 2008, operating out of youth clubs that were set up by Accion Contra el...