„I am Mariam Mikiashvili. I am 28 years old. I have a spouse and a child, who will be one year old soon. I live in Tbilisi and I am a special education teacher. I studied this profession in Norway. Before that, I got a
„Teodora is 6 years old, she goes to a kindergarten and the Portage Association of Georgia, where she has been involved in the Early Development Program since she was 2-3 months. She is already finishing the program and will go to school, but we have
„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