Continued Relief

The picture on the left shows one of the many people we have feed from our soup kitchen. She first came to our center to get soup in an old paint can that she had cleaned up. One of our volunteers found an old tea pot near the church, cleaned it up, filled it with soup and gave it to her. She was quite overjoyed.


We were able to ramp up our feeding operations to feed refugees in 18 of the collective centers (kindergartens) in Gori. This was a total of over 2,000 refugees getting hot meals through our efforts. We have given out over 15,000 hot meals to the refugees and citizens of Gori.

Tuesday (Sept 2) we discovered that the Italian Red Cross had been given the responsibility to feed the refugees in the collective centers and they had begun this effort. We immediately stopped feeding in the centers to avoid additional troubles with coordination with other humanitarian aid organizations.

We had an argreement with several aid organizations to provide hot meals to the refugee families who were living in the private homes of family, friends, or neighbors. But when we informed the deputy mayor of our plan, we were discouraged from providing hot meals but instead providing food supplies.

At this point we will continue feeding from the church building as a soup kitchen.