Focus Country
Support for Kids Organization was
founded to provide help for state orphanages in the country of
Georgia. Georgia is a small extremely independent country formerly
part of the old Soviet Union. She has an ongoing fight for economic
and political survival.
Georgia
is situated in Southern Caucasus mountains at the crossroads of
Europe and Asia. It lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and is
bordered by Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as shown in the
maps below.
Georgia fought for
and gained i
ndependence
from the former
Soviet Union
in 1991.
Georgia has
suffered from the breakdown of markets for the products she produced
as part of the old Soviet Union. Georgia has worked hard to
establish a new economic and political position in the world.
Georgia has struggled with internal strife with the civil wars of
1992 dividing part of the country and again in August of 2008 which
was ended by an invasion of
Georgia
by Russian troops into Georgian sovereign territory. One of the
results of this turmoil is displaced or orphaned kids who need our
help.

