Developer company m² concluded a memorandum of Understanding on building a small group home for children with disabilities who are deprived of parental care. 

Developer company m² concluded a memorandum of Understanding on building a small group home for children with disabilities who are deprived of parental care. The house will be fully adapted to the needs of these children. Currently, the project of the small group home has been completed and the company will start construction works from January, 2017. Renovation and refurbishment works of the house will be provided by UNICEF.

Small group home will be built within the framework of the project Protection of Children with Disabilities, carried out by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs since 2015. A number of important reforms have been carried out within this project with active participation of UNICEF and USAID.

"m² is committed to taking care of people with special needs. It is extremely important for us. All residential complexes of m² are fully adapted to the needs of people with disabilities. Our company supported installation of up to 260 ramps on Chavchavadze and Vazha Pshavela avenues. Each m² employee is proud to be a part of such a great job – building a small group home for children, creating opportunities for children deprived of parental care to be raised in a family environment and be provided with best living conditions’’, declared Irakli Burdiladze, director general of m².

"Such initiatives create good practice for cooperation between the state and non-state sectors. It is the first step from the side of the state to create a new, family type of care service for children with severe disabilities who currently reside in the Nutsubidze Children’s home for children with disabilities, which means they still live in a large residential care institution. This activity fully complies with the social child care policy of the country, which is oriented on closing large residential care institutions and creating care services which are maximally close to the family environment.

"The new service will allow the children with disabilities receive the care service which is based on their individual needs, in terms of health and education. This will create more opportunities for children to develop and to become fully-fledged persons’’, declares Zaza Sopromadze, the deputy Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs,