Back in Georgia

Rusudani, 27, stands with her children in one of the dark rooms at the Khobi Swimming Complex on Sept. 29, 2008, in Khobi, Georgia. Rusudani and her children along with nine other families live in the Khobi Swimming Complex which has been a Collective Center (CC) for IDPs from Abkhazia since the conflict in the 1990s. The building is structurally unsound, has no running water, and no functioning heating during the winter.

Gela, 10, stands at the window in his kitchen at the Khobi Swimming Complex on Sept. 29, 2008, in Khobi, Georgia. Gela's family along with nine others live in the Khobi Swimming Complex which has been a Collective Center (CC) for IDPs from Abkhazia since the conflict in the 1990s. The building is structurally unsound, has no running water and no functioning heating during the winter.

Radion, 60, stands in front of his grape vines at the Khobi Swimming Complex on Sept. 29, 2008, in Khobi, Georgia. Radion, along with nine other families, live in the Khobi Swimming Complex which has been a Collective Center (CC) for IDPs from Abkhazia since the conflict in the 1990s. The building is structurally unsound, has no running water, and no functioning heating during the winter. Raidon, who used to have a farm back in his home village in Abkhazia, has been growing produce in the empty lot next to the CC for the last 15 years. He calls his garden of wine grapes, limes, and oranges "my Abkhazia" in remembrance of his land back home.

Revaz, 73, stands in the basement of the Khobi Swimming Complex, where he makes his wine, on Sept. 29, 2008, in Khobi, Georgia. Revaz and nine other refugee families have lived in the Khobi Swimming Complex since the 1990s.

Nino, 59, stands in one of her family's rooms in one of the annexed buildings for IDPs in the Zugdidi Hospital Center's Collective Center (CC), in Zugdidi, Georgia, on Sept. 29, 2008. Nino's husband died in the Abkhazian conflict from which she fled. Living conditions within the Center are deplorable with collapsing ceilings, a flooded basement that seeps water into the floor boards and unsanitary shared bathroom facilities. Twenty-two families live in the CC behind the Zugdidi Hospital.