Stories Untold - Return of Georgian Migrants: Tina Abulashvili

I left in 2004 and lived in Greece for 7 years. I worked for 4 families in total, but in parallel, I was cleaning for at least 10 families. We only had one day off, which was Sunday. I divided that day in two and was cleaning on that day for two families. It’s been a year since I came back. I wanted to open a small agricultural shop here, in the village. We are a bit far away from the town. Yet, it’s a large village and many people cannot travel to town for small things. I wanted to do that and I managed to, with IOM’s assistance. The only problem is that I do not own the space, so I have to pay a lot for rent. But we’ll see how it will go. The shop has already become very important for our village, people always need things for their homes and now they don’t have to go far to get all that.
 

Photo: Dina Oganova