Pikria was a student of Tbilisi State University at the philology faculty in the 1980s. From 1983-1984 she was one of the organizers and leaders of students’ and youth protest movements against Soviet mega-projects in Georgia such as the Transcaucasian railway and the Khudoni dam because of their possible negative effects on the environment. Pikria …
Can we still have a conversation with each other? We all want to be heard, but are not always prepared to listen? The social climate of conversation seems poisoned, dialogue increasingly turns into discord; hatred and agitation often dominate the discourse. In this short video, the project “Saxony in Dialogue” is presented by its initiator Conny Reichelt. Through encounters …
Nana is from Tbilisi. In the 1990s she worked as a teacher and is very much involved today as an activist of children’s rights. She is one of the earliest representatives in Georgia of grassroot organizations that deal with the protection of children. Nana founded a non-formal network for humanitarian aid not only in Tbilisi, …
