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Marine's Story (English)
მარინეს ამბავი (ქართულად)

Personally, I am not an IDP.  I am the daughter-in-law of a displaced family, so the sad stories of the displaced people are well known to me. During the war, my family went through a very difficult period. Of course, it was very upsetting for them when they had to flee from their native home—they crossed the border and arrived in a unfamiliar place. Of course, this place was also their homeland where they arrived, but leaving their own house, their own region and neighborhood appeared too difficult for them. It was very hard for me as a local person to witness all this, we were also worrying so much about this complicated situation and were doing our best to somehow help them. We offered them an apartment to live in at least temporarily and we tried to help these people economically and psychologically as well. However, the situation in Georgia was so tense then. Sure, this support was not enough for them. After 30 years the situation has improved a little, but there are still many things to be solved. They have an accommodation problem, and there are problems from a health and economic point of view as well. Moreover, internally displaced people nowadays have to go abroad and get jobs there. That means that again they have to leave their newly purchased houses and seek jobs in other countries, as unemployment is still a big problem in Georgia. We hope we will return back to Abkhazia very soon—this beautiful wonderful part will be again ours. I wish my children were able to live there in Abkhazia. I wish they were able to achieve success and use the achieved success for the benefit and welfare of their country. Finally, I will say that we will definitely return to Abkhazia. This is the dream of all IDPs, and we hope that their dream will come true soon.

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