Digest: Dignified Life Until Return, Nο. 1 - October 2011

Dear friends,
It’s my pleasure to introduce one more new initiative of the Ministry - bimonthly information Digest. Any interested organization and person can receive electronic or printed version this Digest.
We live in information age. Timely and effi cient information sharing with our benefi ciaries, partners and donors is one of the most signifi cant components of our activities. We are accountable towards many individuals and we realize that very often, the informa-tion provided in timely and effec-tive manner is as important as any other type of assistance.
The modern world offers vari-ous channels and upgraded technologies of quick and effec-tive information exchange, we try to utilize these opportunities as much as possible and to inform wider society about our activities, achievements or remaining challenges.
For this purpose, we have updated our webpage www.mra.gov.ge, developed our channels through social media, established Reception Centres equipped with modern technologies and oper-ate the Hot Line (see last page for detailed information). Though, we still are willing to tell you more about our current activities, future plans and challenges that we often have to overcome together. Plans that sounded unbelievable in the beginning of our path - privatized, gasifi ed buildings with individual electricity counters, IDPs relocated to newly constructed apartments from the dire conditions, individual rural houses with land plots in re-gions – is now a reality. We con-sider that the Digest will serve as the best format to regularly brief you about the above-mentioned and other achievements. The Di-gest will feature updated statistics, minutes of important meetings, planned or implemented projects and events, and what is of the utmost importance, will include practical and useful information for most important segment of our readers - IDPs, answering to their frequent questions, telling stories of their lives, successes or just their everyday, often accompanied with problems, reality.
Since the communication is interactive process, we will look forward to your feedback and comments about the type of infor-mation you would like to see in the Digest. I hope that the Digest will facilitate even more deepening of our relationships and the reader will always be expecting it with the interest.