''I worked in the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra for 62 years. When I left I was 80 years old. My character helped me a lot since I always try to overcome every obstacle in life. When I left the orchestra nobody could say I couldn't handle
When I was 19 years old, studying at the Theological Academy, I wanted to help other people and in summer I went to the homeless children' house in Dzegvi Monastery for a short time. I was young then and just curious about what was happening
The Bible and the Quran in my family are kept side by side. I was 13 years old when I fell in love with an Adjarian Muslim boy. Back then I didn’t realize that it could be a challenge. I didn’t recognize the two different beliefs
,,Nikoloz has completely changed our lives and has also let me find a new profession. He was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma when he was 4 months old. I was young and inexperienced back then so I trusted Georgian healthcare. He was 6 months old when he
Student of the Academy of Arts. A potter. It's one thing when you make your own decision to leave home; but then there's what happened to us
I’m an elementary school teacher. I returned to the village 23 years ago, when there was a difficult situation in Georgia. I was the fourth girl in the family – everybody was waiting for a boy. The nurse told to my grandfather that she didn’t have
''We've been relocated here after the landslide in the 90s. An avalanche covered the village Tsablani and a part of its population along with their homes and livelihood. This tragedy killed 28 people. It was decided to move us to Bolnisi, to the Disveli village.
,,I have two children. Tsotne is 4 years old, Ioane - two and a half years old. I was 22 weeks pregnant when doctors diagnosed Ioane with Microcephaly. When I heard it, my first question was if the child could live. I couldn't think about anything else.
,,If I looked at my life, like it were a movie, two episodes like red lines would stroke my mind, stark and emotional: fireballs launched at our plane escaping Sokhumi, and the doomed scream of a girl mercilessly forced into a car. I was 18 years old when I left Sokhumi and moved to Kutaisi to study. I loved the technical subjects and