Last year, UNICEF and the British non-governmental organization EveryChild set up a partnership to help the government find homes for what they call ‘social orphans’ – children living in orphanages who still have one or more parents.
UNICEF’s Representative in Georgia, Giovanna Barberis, says the organization has been pressing for institutional reform for many years and has made great headway at the policy level.
“We wanted to prove to the government that there were socially better environments for children, which were not more expensive than the institutional system,” says Ms. Barberis.
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