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GREEN MISSION IN GEORGIA COMPLETED!
At the beginning of this 2023, we told you about the project that we at Salute e Sviluppo decided to initiate in Georgia: ‘Solar energy for a GREEN mission!’, which consisted of the purchase and installation of no less than 90 solar panels of about 300 watts each, with the associated energy production and storage facility.
Seven months after the start of activities, we have achieved all the goals we set ourselves: the panels have been installed and at the moment the green system is fully functional and provides the Tblisi Day Care and Rehabilitation Centre with clean energy for all its activities.
The Day Care Centre is a key health centre for the Georgian capital and surrounding areas. Founded by the Camillians at the beginning of the millennium, in little more than 20 years it has distinguished itself as a centre of excellence for specialised care and rehabilitation cycles for all those suffering from serious disabilities – not only physical. Each patient is followed with special attention by a team of specialists, who accompany the patient through physiotherapy, speech therapy and psychology.
Thanks to our project, not only will the centre incur reduced costs to supply itself with the energy it needs for all its activities, thus maintaining standards of healthcare excellence, but it will also have the opportunity to pioneer the use of renewable funds, making itself truly sustainable.
We are very happy to have participated in this project, which sees us at the forefront, not only in supporting an excellent health centre, but also in promoting a green culture.
MORE GREEN ENERGY IN GEORGIA
Georgia only gained independence some 30 years ago following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which for the entire previous century had subjugated it and made it a highly statist country dependent on Moscow. Since 1991, Georgia has been trying, with difficulty, to get out of the precariousness that the communist system and then its collapse caused, with a large part of the population still living in situations of severe socio-economic hardship.
Following the nation’s independence, the Camillians decided to set up a delegation in the country to help all those in need of socio-medical support: initially with home visits and later with the construction of a real specialist outpatient clinic in Tbilisi, to which – in 2001 – they also added the Day Care and Rehabilitation Centre, already dear to us having joined our AMOC Fund (Camillian Works Sickness Insurance).
In just over 20 years since its inception, the Day Care Centre has managed to become a health centre of excellence, not only for the population of Tbilisi, but for the entire nation. Specialised care and rehabilitation cycles help those with severe disabilities – not only physical – to embark on courses of treatment, followed by medical and health personnel specialised in physiotherapy, speech therapy and psychology.
If it is already one of the most advanced facilities in the entire country from a sanitary point of view, it now also wants to become a pioneer in the field of eco-sustainability: the ‘Solar energy for a GREEN mission!’ project involves the construction of a carport within the car park area and the installation of no less than 90 solar panels of about 300 watts each, with the associated energy production and storage system.
We at Salute e Sviluppo have accepted the project’s application for funding and have just inaugurated the activities that, within seven months, will lead to the installation of the required solar panels and the full operation of the green plant. The Centre will be able to produce much of the electricity it needs in an autonomous and eco-sustainable manner: a clear advantage not only from an economic point of view, but also with a view to safeguarding our planet, as Pope Francis invites us to do in his encyclical Laudato Si’.
We are very happy to be able to participate in this project, which sees us at the forefront, not only in supporting an excellent health centre, but also in promoting the green culture of sustainability.