May 9 ------------------ I was brought up in a kind of family where, you know, they told me at the age of 5 that all I was told about Stalin and Lenin in the nursery was a lie and we didn't speak of them in our family
Wheelchair way of life ____________ I’d been living happy life before 1994, but then, like others, I also became the victim of the of the havoc wreaked in our country at that time. We were attending relative’s funeral in a neighbouring village Qveshi. On our way back home
What happened in the street "It happened exactly two years ago, on February 20 in 2016. I’d just started to work. Giving math and English private lessons at the same time, I had to go from Kavtaradze to Sololaki in the late evening and return home
During my study in Belarus, my supervisor promised he would take me as a second assistant to a surgeon for one of the important surgeries. On entering operating theatre, the surgeon looked at me and said that considering complexity and length of the surgical procedure
(Women from Georgia’s respondent - Natia Ninikelashvili’s Mother) Solitude --------------- I was 38 years old when I decided to have Natia. As a woman in love, who could afford to live independently, I made the decision to raise my daughter alone without a father with full awareness of
(Tamuna and Kristine live in a small group home created by the organization Hand in Hand. They were interviewed during their working hours at the social enterprise Babale.) “Tamuna: No, I am Tamuna. Kristo, they are here already… Kristine: That’s me, Kristine. You will interview me, won’t
“Am I different or not? I don’t get such questions. I don’t know what it means to be different. I am an ordinary person just like everyone else. I cry when I listen to Mozart – it reminds me of the happy times I have
„I’ve loved playing with a ball since I was a child. I used to be physically active. While other girls fancied bays, I fancied a ball. My dad influenced my love for sports. I played football since I was nine. In Khobi, before there was a
„My symptoms were visible since early childhood. At some point, I became very sick. First, I started to limp, and then my condition worsened. Finally, they found out what was the matter with me. I was already using a crutch but it was getting increasingly