Gela Mtivlishvili, Kakheti
Three-member family of Gogitidzes in the village of Koreti in Akhmeta district lives in extremely poor conditions. The Gogitidzes were lodged in the village from Adjara six years ago. In rainy weather rain leaks into their house; the walls are pulling down because of moist, the floor is so damaged that family members fall into the basement.
“The floor fell down by midnight and I fell into the basement with my bed. My husband hardly took me out of there. I hit my head against something and it aches since then. It was not first incident; the floor fell down in the past too. The wooden boards are rotten. We walk on the floor with fear. Can a person live in such a house? There are so many empty houses and they can lodge us in any of them to feel ourselves safer,” said Zhuzhuna Gogitidze.
The head of the family Muhamed Gogitidze said the house was damaged before they were lodged into it. He had petitioned to the Akhmeta district administration, Kakheti regional administration and the ministry of IDPs from the occupied territories, accommodation and refuges several times and requested to lodge them into another house or fund their transportation back to Adjara. However, nobody paid attention to them.
The ministry of IDPs from the occupied territories, accommodation and refugees reported that the houses are assigned to the families victimized by natural disaster according to the number of family members. “There are two members in Gogitidze’s family and consequently they received a one-storied house; they have been complaining about it for many years and state that it is impossible to live in it,” the letter of the ministry reads.
According to the ministry, in 2006, representatives of the department on migration, repatriation and refugee issues studied the situation of the Gogitidzes on the place. “Muhamed Gogitidze was informed about the position of the ministry regarding their ungrounded complaints several times both in written form and verbally. As for funding their transportation back to Adjara, the ministry budget does not contain similar funds,” the official letter of the ministry reads.
Muhamed Gogitdze said nobody has ever visited their family to study their living conditions.
The Gogitidzes urge the public defender of Georgia and human rights organizations for help.
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