In 1999 –2000  with  the  financial support  of  the Russian-American  nongovernmental  group   on human rights,  under the  programme of  sub grants  “The Civil Society”  the project  “Integration of refugees and  forced migrants into the local community”  was implemented.

   The goal of the project  was  rendering free  legal,  social  assistance to  forced migrants,  refugees;  protecting the interests of forced migrants  by means of rendering  free legal counseling and conducting cases in courts,  as well  as  statistical  investigation of migration in the Stavropol Region.   Great attention  was paid  to activities for attracting financial means  and material  values  for rendering humanitarian aid to needy  families of forced migrants.  Thus in the framework of the project over 1400  people  received  professional  legal  and social  assistance.   Over  600  families  got  humanitarian  aid.  Equally with  the  assistance to forced migrants,  local  needy  citizens  were  rendered  assistance  as well. 
      In  the course of the project implementation contacts were established  with the Administration Offices  of the cities of  the  Caucasian Mineral Waters,  social  services centers,  migrant services  and other  institutions of the region.  
      Implementation of this project  allowed forced migrants  to learn their rights and  defend them,  adapt  in new situations,  eased  the process of their integration  into the local  community.