“After finishing school, I wanted to enroll in a dental college, but the college was not adapted for the deaf and hard of hearing people in Georgia. There was one in Russia, but I was already married and I could not travel there. Later, I
„Before 2011, my passion for cultivation of land was limited to potted plants. All my childhood I had been envious of my classmates who ran off to their countryside houses on weekends. In 2011, we participated in a grant competition within the project of USAID/NEO
“I have loved making dolls since childhood. I am from Zestaponi. When we went to the countryside on holidays, I would make dolls of corn stalk. We would then make dresses for it and play. There was no TV and radio, we had to somehow
„I was born and brought up in the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia. But I studied in Russia for 4 years, then I graduated from a university in Chechnya-Ingushetia, where I met my future husband. It was in 1993, tensions had already started between Russian and Chechnya.
Ana: „ I was a small girl when my parents took me to a music school. This school was right in front of a stadium and I used to stand for hours and watch boys playing soccer after I finished my music lessons. My teacher,
„I was born male but I am an intersex person, i.e. a person with xx chromosome. I was different from other children since my childhood. Everybody noticed that in the family, the more so that I was most different from 8 siblings (of which 4
„I had an apartment in the city, which we mortgaged during the crisis years, but we failed to repay the loan and lost it. So my husband and I moved to this village, where we stay through the whole year. People, tourists like here and
I am a fourth-year student of Tbilisi State University. I would hardly be able to study at the university unless I had support from my family. We are from Kutaisi. My family moved to Tbilisi when I went to school. Initially the handbook of the Georgian
„I was 12 years old when I realized my sexual orientation. I tried hard to keep it secret. I retired into my shell trying to hide everything. I found that rather hard…I found it hard to realize and find my own self. Although everything seemed