„I know for sure that I would have a different life if I were not an internally displaced person. All the difficulties in my life are associated with this status. I used to work as a teacher in Gali. My kid was very small then,
„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
"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
We left Abkhazia on September 29, 1993, and went to our cousin in Zugdidi. We were destitute, without any means to provide for ourselves, so we decided to head for Tbilisi. I was a teacher, so we were offered to live into a dorm. They