IMPORTANT: UNHCR guidance for refugees from Ukraine
Get help: Telegram WhatsApp Phone: +995 551 51 27 00 Address: 23a Giorgi Chubinashvili St, T'bilisi Opening hours: Tue, Fri, Sat, 12:00 to 19:00 Website: https://justhelp.charity/en/
A volunteer organisation founded by Russian emigrants. We help Ukrainian refugees: we provide free medicines, free psychological support and information help. We help people apply for state support from Georgia. We run charity and educational events. Come and see us, you are welcome!
Hotline: +995 322 885 033. Messengers: +995 595 512 407 (Telegram, WhatsApp) volunteerstbilisi.com/ru/home
How they help: food parcels, hygiene products.
Address: the volunteer centre is in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, basement floor Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11:00 to 16:00 Phone: +995 599 567 143 (+995 557 606 346 — Olesia, head of the centre)
How they help: clothes and shoes, household items (blankets, pillows, bed linen, towels, etc.), items for pregnant women, young mothers and children (clothes, nappies, prams, toys, etc.)
Address: Medical University metro station, 67B Zhiuli Shartava Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi). Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00 Phone: +995 577 045 645
How they help: winterisation (in winter they give families with children vouchers for warm clothes).
They also help with retraining and finding a job.
Address: 11, 1st Merab Kostava Lane
Monday to Friday, 12:00 to 16:00
Instagram: @socialuri_saxli Phone: +995 577 727 729 (Misha, one of the co-founders of the canteen).
How they help: you can come for a meal once a day (every day if you need, but once a day).
Multi-purpose cash grants.
Hygiene kits.
Address: 14B Shalva Nutsubidze Street, Tbilisi
Phone: 📞(+995) 592 95 33 01
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://care-caucasus.org.ge/
Help with clothes and food.
Website:
https://emmaus-europe.org/language/en/georgia-emmaus-geo-is-supporting-refugees/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/emmaus.geo/
Social media: instabio.cc/UniteT Address: Station Square metro station, 21/23 Tsotne Dadiani Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi) Opening hours: Monday 10:00–21:00, Tuesday to Friday 10:00–17:00, Saturday 12:00–17:00, Sunday 12:00–15:00 Phone: +995 551 14 63 64
A diaspora organisation of Ukrainian citizens. They organise events.
They also offer partial help with utility bills during the heating season for vulnerable groups. Details and the application form are here.
Job ads are posted at the information desk of the humanitarian aid point.
Address: Medical University metro station, 67B Zhiuli Shartava Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi). Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00 Phone: +995 577 045 645
How they help: cash assistance — 255 GEL a month for two months (vulnerable groups, single-parent families) (not provided if you already receive financial help from Unite Together).
Website: https://georgia.peopleinneed.net/en/ Phone: +995 577 298085 (Olena) Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 17:00.
How they help: cash assistance — 255 GEL a month for six months (for pensioners aged 60+, people with disabilities who have supporting documents, and single mothers).
Important: no help is given to people who already receive help from World Vision or Unite Together. You can apply here only after your material help from World Vision or Unite Together has ended.
Address: 125 Vazisubani Street; 3 Varketili Street, microdistrict 2, building 20a Hotline: +995 032 250 11 05 Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 to 18:30. Website: https://redcross.ge/
How they help: from time to time they help vulnerable groups with medical insurance and support people living with HIV. Check which programmes are running now.
Social media: instabio.cc/UniteT Address: Station Square metro station, 21/23 Tsotne Dadiani Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi) Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 17:00. Phone: +995 551 14 63 64
How they help: they run a programme that provides medicines for specific conditions after a preliminary survey (at the moment they have bought medicines for thyroid conditions).
Address: Medical University metro station, 67B Zhiuli Shartava Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi). Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00 Phone: +995 577 045 645
How they help: a crisis fund — a one-off payment of 1,000 GEL (for medical services (form 100 / cost estimate), for families with children and other crisis situations (a committee reviews every application and decides on it, but help is usually granted).
Phone: +995 599 111 405 Email: [email protected]
Information on solving problems with documents, powers of attorney and bank cards. Link: https://dopomoga.ge/Categories/Legal-Issues/1
Social media: instabio.cc/UniteT Address: Station Square metro station, 21/23 Tsotne Dadiani Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi) Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 17:00. Phone: +995 551 14 63 64
How they help: their legal aid project has ended, but a Ukrainian House has opened in Batumi, which plans to offer information and legal support, among other things.
(Inside Russia)
Website: https://refugee.ru/
Contacts: https://refugee.ru/nuzhna-pomoshh/
Address: 101 Uznadze Street, Tbilisi.
Phone: 032 299 50 76
Email: [email protected]
Website: gyla.ge
Address: 11a Akaki Gakhokidze Street (formerly 2 Gagarin Lane), 3rd floor, Tbilisi.
Phone: (+995 32) 2 38 46 48
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.humanrights.ge/
Hotline: +995 322 885 033. Messengers: +995 595 512 407 (Telegram, WhatsApp) volunteerstbilisi.com/ru/home
Social media: instabio.cc/UniteT Address: Station Square metro station, 21/23 Tsotne Dadiani Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi) Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 17:00. Phone: +995 551 14 63 64
How they help: job ads are posted at the information desk of the humanitarian aid point.
Address: Medical University metro station, 67B Zhiuli Shartava Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi). Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00. Phone: +995 577 045 645
How they help: help with retraining and finding a job.
Address: the centre is in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, basement floor Open: Wednesday to Friday, 11:00 to 16:00 Phone: +995 599 567 143 (+995 557 606 346 — Olesia, head of the centre)
Social media: instabio.cc/UniteT Address: Station Square metro station, 21/23 Tsotne Dadiani Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi) Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 17:00. Phone: +995 551 14 63 64
Events: informal education for all ages (yoga, drawing, choir, football, English and Georgian language courses).
Address: Medical University metro station, 67B Zhiuli Shartava Street (branches in Batumi and Kutaisi). Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00. Phone: +995 577 045 645
Events:
A programme of social, emotional and educational support in two child-friendly spaces (CFS) in Tbilisi for children from Ukraine.
Psychosocial support for parents of children attending the CFS, in the same building.
Address: 27b A. Mitskevich Street, Tbilisi
Phone: 📞 (+995 322) 23 25 20
Website: https://georgia.savethechildren.net/
Pre-school class for children aged 5–6: 18 Chiaureli Street, kindergarten No. 93. Days and hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00–17:30 / Meals: four times a day.
Children’s space for ages 3–15: 38 (A) Paliashvili Street, kindergarten No. 1, 11:00–14:00 / Snacks: provided
Children’s space for ages 3–15: 58 Tskhra Dzma Kherkheulidze Street. Days and hours: 14:00–18:00, School No. 220 / Snacks: provided
Main contacts:
Public Safety Command Centre of the Interior Ministry — phone 112. In cases of violence, contact the police. For advice on domestic and sexual violence and human trafficking, call the hotline 116006. It works 24/7. Hotline for children affected by violence — 111.
Possible protection measures for survivors of violence:
Additional services for survivors of violence
There are 5 shelters for survivors of violence in Georgia, 1 of them in Tbilisi
Crisis centres provide legal, social and psychological support. You can find out about crisis centres by calling the hotline 116006
Other organisations that help survivors of violence:
Hotline: 2220689. Address: 9 Anjaparidze Street
Psychological help, including for survivors of gender-based violence. Hotline: +995 593 242 698 Address: 3 Gambashidze Street
Phone: 032 230 76 03 Address: 11a Akaki Gakhokidze Street
Email: [email protected]
Website: sapari.ge
• Helping to Leave (https://helpingtoleave.org/) — help Ukrainians leave the combat zone. • Civic Assistance Committee (https://refugee.ru/) — protect the rights of migrants and refugees. • Helpdesk (https://t.me/helpdesk_media) — explain how to evacuate, relocate and protect yourself from persecution.
