Small kiosks also sell lemons along with other goods. ‘These ones have been hanging here for two weeks’, the owner said. (Tamuna Chkareuli / OC Media)
Selling lemons in the streets at ₾1 ($0.38) for a bag of 5, Tbilisi’s lemon vendors — almost exclusively elderly women — struggle to scrape out a living. [Read more…]
(Tamuna Chkareuli/OC Media)
Despite the good intentions of the government, Georgia’s pension reforms are doomed to failure. [Read more…]
Anzor and Giorgi Noniashvili (Tamuna Chkareuli/OC Media)
Struggling to make ends meet, many Georgian pensioners end up relying on donations from charities or support from relatives or kind neighbours. Places in care homes are few and far between and even the state-run Soviet-era institutions are no longer taking in residents. The government is set to introduce a new pension contribution scheme but critics argue it doesn’t go far enough. [Read more…]
Rusudan Chelidze (Nino Baidauri / Women of Georgia)
‘You cannot really call what we went through back then childhood. There were only two of us. We had no one else out there in the whole world.’ [Read more…]
