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Child From Orphanage Forced to Pasture Cattle

April 28, 2011

Georgian Public Defender Giorgi Tugushi requests the director of the society agency to monitor the living conditions of all children who were returned to their biological families and to evaluate problematic cases again.

The Public Defender’s report states that three underage sisters E.M, E.M and A.M were reintegrated into their biological families in 2009 from Lagodekhi orphanage. The tutors said the sisters have been begging in the street since that time.

“Administration of the Lagodekhi orphanage reported that their former beneficiary T.R. was reintegrated in 2009 and since then the child has been pasturing the cattle and cannot get education. He cannot get proper food either. The mother applied to the orphanage and then to the social agency and requested to take the child back to the orphan house but in vain,” the report states.

The Ombudsman said special preventive group was informed about several shortcomings in the reintegration process during the monitoring. “Administrations and tutors of several orphanages (Lagodekhi orphanage and Telavi orphanage) indicate to concrete cases when children were returned to their biological families without proper evaluation of the corresponding environment for the children’s development in the families. As a result, several children returned to their biological families where they do not have minimal conditions for their future development,” said Tughushi.

Information Center of Kakheti 

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