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More than 5000 Children in Georgia Live in School Boarding Houses

May 13, 2005

More than 5000 Children in Georgia Live in School Boarding Houses 

Tbilisi.12.05.05. Media News. Today at the hotel Sheraton Metekhi Palace representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, along with other organizations, is meeting with the director of the School Boarding Houses and Boarding Schools, which are run by the Ministry of Education.

The meeting was attended by the Minister of Education and Science Aleqsandre Lomaia, First Lady Sandra Rulovs, director of the organization Every Child Andro Dadiani, and the head of the Department of Children’s Care of the Ministry of Education, Tamar Gulubiani.

According to Aleqsandre Lomaia, the main objective of the meeting is to include Boarding School directors in working on the reform of the national child care system, because this will help to create forms of child care which are based on bringing children up in a family setting.

“Every child should be brought up in a family environment notwithstanding the poor means of livelihood. We should act from this principle,” stated the Minister of Education.

At the meeting it was mentioned that more than 5000 children in Georgia live in Boarding Schools, out of whom only 3.5 % are orphans. The main reason for putting children in such schools and houses is the unbearable social conditions of the families.

At the end of the meeting a new public advertisement was presented on deinstitutionalisation.  


 

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