Georgia/South Ossetia: the long road to recovery

6-08-2009 Photo Collection

Nearly a year after the hostilities broke out, most internally displaced people have returned home. However, they remain vulnerable, in need of food and other essentials. A selection of photos taken as part of the Our world. Your move campaign by well-known VII photographer Antonin Kratochvil.

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Kutaisi collective centre in Zugdidi hosts families displaced due to the 2008 fighting.

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This woman from Karbi village was wounded last summer when hostilities broke out.

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To cope with the cold winter, the ICRC distributed food to some 46,000 people in western Georgia. Here, in the village of Brosleti.

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In Gori, new settlements have been built for people who are not able to go back to their home villages or towns.

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Rehabilitation centre for veterans of the Abkhazian 1992-93 conflict. The woman in the foreground lost her son in the conflict.

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South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Despite the fact that most people return to their homes, hundreds still live in centres for internally displaced persons.

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South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. Centre for displaced people.

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The South Ossetian town of Tskhinvali was hit when Georgian and Russian forces clashed in August 2008.

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Dmenisi municipality. During the winter, the ICRC distributed warm clothes and other relief items to those most in need.

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Dmenisi municipality. With the de facto administrative boundary line dividing Georgia and South Ossetia, farmers are having problems getting water for irrigation purposes. In the spring of 2009, the ICRC launched a project to help them cultivate their land with less water.