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Monday, August 11, 2008

Save the Children Aiding Displaced in Georgia

Westport’s Save the Children said today it is moving quickly to provide assistance to thousands of children and family members caught in the crossfire of an armed conflict in South Ossetia bordering on Russia and Georgia. The agency has worked in Georgia for 15 years.

“We need to assist thousands of families caught in the middle of this conflict,” said Tom Vincent, Save the Children’s Country Director in Georgia.

“We are especially concerned about families in Tskinvali as well as families living in the nearby town of Gori across the border in Georgia. The fighting has been very intense since Thursday night and it appears many families do not have access to clean water.”

Vincent said that hospitals in Tskinvali and in Gori have been overwhelmed with injured patients and are running out of medical equipment and supplies.

According to the initial reports coming from U.N. officials, several thousand families (mostly ethnic Georgians) have left their homes and moved from South Ossetia into Gori, Rustavi and Mtskheta districts of Georgia.

As part of its initial response, Save the Children’s office in Georgia is preparing to assist 10,000 children and family members affected by the conflict, providing families with basic health and hygiene supplies as well as cooking provisions and other household items.

Save the Children has worked in Georgia since 1993, focusing on helping the country’s most vulnerable populations including street children and displaced families as well as assisting communities in meeting basic needs in health, education, and livelihoods.

Save the Children also works in Abkhazia, a separate breakaway region affected by the conflict, bordering Georgia and the Black Sea. Save the Children said it has temporarily suspended operations in Abkhazia, pending further developments.

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