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Every week several people working with children (doctors, Ngo members, volunteers) are asked about problems they have doing their job. It's done to show ways people choose to help children and to share experience among each other.
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Question of the week: What is the most important problem you face within the limits? |
Keti Gaprindashvili, 31, pediatrician, works in Tbilisi Infant Home at Nutsubidze Street . She works every day from nine o'clock in the morning until six in the evening for monthly salary forty laries. As she says this money is hardly enough just to go to and from job every day, however she can't imagine her live without her work.
"The most important problem for me is the lack of medicines. My duty is to help babies when they are ill, but sometimes we have no medicines. The only way to help child is buying medicine by your own money."
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Nazi Mamaladze, 65, is used to be a nurse in Tsknety orphan house. Now she is retired officially but continues working there voluntarily.
Years ago, when I started to work here, salary paid to nurses and teachers was enough to support themselves. Now, who will come and work for 35-50 laries? The most important problem in my mind is the lack of motivation. Young people wouldn't like to come and substitute us. What will happen when we became to old to work?"
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Nino Mamulashvili, 30, psychologist, works with street kids by herself since 1999. She organizes trainings for groups from 10-15 children every week, where she plays and talks with children. Sometimes teaches them to read and write.
"The most important problem is neglect from people, especially government. I asked several times the Ministry of Education to do something for my children at least to buy books for them. They advised me to apply to NGOs. I think it's not only due to NGOs to help children. It's everybody's responsibility."
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A group of fife Tbilisi State University students (departments of psychology and philology) voluntarily work with mentally or physically disabled children in Gimnazium #6 within the project of Inclusive education. Eka Nacvlishvili, 20, future psychologist spends two days a week at school, helping disabled children to do home tasks.
"The most important problem within my work is that society don't percept disabled children as members of community. I think before helping disabled children, we (psychologists) have to change peoples way of thinking about disabled."
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