“I was born in Telavi. My father was deaf and my mother was hearing impaired. I had a grandmother, a very educated woman, who brought me up and gave me various skills so that I could avoid discrimination in that environment. As you know, during...
“I think after the right to life, freedom of choice is the most fundamental right of a human being. People with disabilities cannot choose where to receive education, where to work, or where to go on a holiday. The government (or the society) dictates them...
“I love summer most of all, because I rejoice at the start of the holiday season when people arrive and I get to meet old and new friends. We gather in the area of the pine grove of Kobuleti. Everything - cafes, bars, discotheques -...
"In 1992, my husband passed away. Abkhazia was already in turmoil. In only forty days after my husband’s death I had to flee Gagra with my two young children - the girl was nine years old and the boy was only seven. You know the...
“I was 18 when I started wearing black: first my parents died, then my husband and then my child. Perched on the top of the mountain, Tskeri is the last village in the Khada Gorge. I have been living here since I got married. I...
I suppose my marriage at an early age happened because, for some reason, I believed I was ready for this responsibility. Later I realized it wasn’t that easy if the responsibility is one-sided only. I was sixteen and I learned a hard way that women...
„I was 21 when I was kidnapped. We were under the Communist rule then and every religion was persecuted. Families had to practice their religion in secret or stay away from the church. I was still not baptized when I got married. One day, my...
“Biological sex creates numerous barriers for a woman in our culture. I have personally suffered from it at every stage of my life – from my early marriage to my career advancement, I’ve had to establish myself over and over again, to prove that I...
The stories and the challenges that are told by the modern women from Georgia on this page, were in fact first written and talked about by the women living as early as a century ago. Most of you are probably familiar with them - the...