„I am a doctor, a surgeon, and a mother of two. I faced opposition from my relatives at the time of making a decision as to which career to pursue. They explained that surgeons had to work very hard and a woman, whose duty was
„My mother was a teacher, a proud and beautiful woman. But she was paralyzed from childbirth after she had twins. Her husband abandoned her and left her alone with three children – my three-year old brother, my twin sibling and me. It was 1930 -
„I starkly remember the day we fled our home. I was 9 years old then. I have many bad memories of it. The most vivid of them is my mother’s face, as I watched her crying. I could realize what was going on around me.
“I want to tell you the story of my life and I will be more than happy if my audience includes women. I was 8 when my father passed away, leaving my mom and me behind. We needed income for me to go to school, buy
“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,