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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Georgia refugees adapt to life in settlement camps AFP - Monday, August 3 TSEROVANI/KHURVALETI, Georgia (AFP) - - Often used as a showcase for Georgia's efforts to help the thousands of people who fled South Ossetia after last August's Georgia-Russia war, the Tserovani settlement hums with the sounds of construction as builders put up new schools, shops and administrative buildings. ADVERTISEMENT Only 35 kilometres (22 miles) apart, the refugee settlements of Tserovani and Khurvaleti along Georgia's border with the rebel South Ossetia region could hardly be more different. Tserovani, a wide expanse of row housing that is home to 2,000 families, is a model development, its homes solidly built and equipped with running water, electricity and natural gas. "The conditions are pretty good, the government has done a lot to help us," said Medea Kenkadze, a 48-year-old school teacher who fled to the settlement with her family from the Akhalgori region in South Ossetia. Khurvaleti, however, is a world apart. There, about 140 families live in deplorable conditions, without running water or gas, the smell of outdoor toilets pervading the settlement. Less than a year old, the homes in Khurvaleti are already falling apart, huge cracks running along the sides and chunks of concrete breaking off. The aluminium roofs leak when it rains. There are no schools or shops. "It's terrible here and it was worse in the winter," said Khurvaleti resident Nino Javakhishvili, 68, as she sat on a bench in the mud-filled front yard of her home. "There's no water, there's no gas, and there's no work for the men. We've been abandoned." In the year since the war, experts say Georgia's record on assisting those who fled their homes is mixed. Many have praised Georgia's government for moving quickly to build homes and get financial and food programmes off the ground. But critics say conditions in some settlements are intolerable and many refugees have been left behind. Georgia's minister for refugees, Koba Subeliani, said the government is doing the best it can. "Refugees' homes are not terribly pleasant, but we managed to provide people with homes in an extremely short period after the war. There were no refugees living in tents within two-and-a-half months after the war," he said. Tens of thousands of Georgians fled their homes in and around South Ossetia and another rebel region, Abkhazia, during the war, which saw Russian troops pour into Georgia to repel a Georgian military attempt to retake South Ossetia. Many returned home after Russia withdrew to within the rebel regions in October, but about 25,000 people, mostly ethnic Georgians from within South Ossetia, were unable to return. With the help of 4.5 billion dollars in foreign aid pledged after the war, the government quickly built a string of settlements for refugees near the border with South Ossetia. The authorities and international agencies meet their basic needs for foodstuffs and provide small amounts of financial assistance. "Overall, the government has met its main obligations toward the refugees... but there are also a lot of shortcomings," said Natia Mosashvili, an activist with Georgia's Young Lawyers Association, which has been working with refugees. Georgian media have also reported some cases of refugees being forced to live in the settlements against their will, with the government refusing to provide them with assistance otherwise. Regardless of their living conditions, refugees say the biggest hardship is not knowing if they will ever be able to return to their homes. "It's not so bad for me, I'm an old man," said 67-year-old Tserovani resident Otari Gviniashvili. "But what about those young people?" he asked, pointing to a group of children playing in the settlement. "What do they have to look forward to growing up here? The government gives them a home and some food and some money. It's a life, but it is not really living." 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