Institutionalized children return home to family life in Georgia

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Child welfare reform in Georgia could soon achieve a 40 per cent reduction in the number of institutionalized children around the country.

A UNICEF-supported government programme has so far seen over 1,600 children returned from institutions to live with families. More than 300 were placed in foster care and more than 500 returned to family life; the programme has also prevented the institutionalization of over 760 additional children.

“I am happy now to be with my mother. I can trust her as my closest friend,” said Mariam Mamadashvili, 16, who returned to her mother’s house a year ago after a five-year stay at the Tianeti Institution.

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