Reference :
V-P-GE-E-00875
Date :
11/2024
Caption :
Arknet/i village. A villager shows the work done by the ICRC to insulate his house.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
Sona (64) lives with her husband. The couple has been receiving food and hygiene parcels within the ICRC’s quarterly social safety network program. This support helps the family so save their very limited income for medicines and other essentials.
Their living conditions made it impossible to fully benefit from the firewood distributed to them annually by the ICRC ahead of heating season. Therefore, the ICRC has renovated and insulated one room in their house to ensure that the couple stay warm during long and cold winter evenings.
Home is where you feel safe. For many elderly and disabled people in remote villages of South Ossetia, their home is the only certainty they have. The armed conflicts in the 1990s and 2008 scarred and depopulated their communities. Younger people have left in search of other economic opportunities. As those that remain grow older or need more permanent care and support, more individuals become isolated from their communities, especially in the long difficult winters. A warm place in their homes helps keep them alive – it is where hope dwells.
Many of elderly, disabled or people with a low income in conflict affected communities face difficult living conditions daily. Since 2022, the ICRC has been helping vulnerable people in villages in South Ossetia to keep warm. To complement the regular quarterly support of food and essential household items, the ICRC began to renovate or insulate a room in an existing home or install a trailer where the house cannot be repaired to improve their living conditions.
ICRC website, article 12.08.2025
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
2048x1365
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
