2015-2018
It's been my greatest honor to work for GPB for 3 years, to cover the problems that really mattered, and also give a voice to those ignored by the mainstream media. I was a reporter, producer and co-host of several weekly programs. You will see my best TV-performance bellow.
As a reporter for the popular weekly show dedicated to farmers in Georgia, I traveled in the regions of Georgia, found families who left the urban areas to start new life with organic gardening and introduced them to a wider public.
Historians and reserchers explained the policy of accessing the materials in Georgian national archives.
I decided to tell the story of women who spend several days on holiday celebrations and sometimes left out of those celebrations due to exhaustion caused by the family chores during those days.
In Summer of 2016 and 2017 I traveled in rural Georgia to find active citizens who were trying to reach the local government representatives. We found and pre-interviewed more than 50 people, also planned and reported individual stories from 12 different regions of Georgia.
As part of this project, I was teamed up with young producers and the best camera crew from the GPB. After recording, editing, and packaging those stories, we invited Georgian authorities who were participating in local governement elections on live talk show to address the citizens' questions. We made them face the problems that they postponed solving or otherwise ignored.
Georgian regions, including Racha-Lechkhumi, struggles to keep families in villages. This short story of only first grader girl reveals the consequence of empty villages in Racha.
Guria and Adjara are the neighbouring Georgian regions close to Turkey. Thi story reports the cases of child labor in Turkey.
The villagers of Uravi ask local and central governmenet to take care of old chemical factories that are lefted without control. Built and shut down in USSR, this hazardous remnants threatens local farming and life, in general.