Deinstitutionalisation, Kutaisi, Georgia

Photographs © Onnik James Krikorian 2007. 

ARTICLES ABOUT DEINSTITUTIONALISATION

SUFFER THE CHILDREN

A mother waits patiently to enroll her son at an Auxiliary Boarding School for children with learning disabilities somewhere in the heart of the Armenian capital. It doesn’t seem to matter to the staff that the twelve-year old isn’t disabled, all the school requires, the Director says, is a medical certificate.

First published 2003

CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS

At just eight months of age, Tiesa and her two sisters were abandoned by a roadside. They survived by eating roadkill — frogs, in fact — and drinking water from puddles before being discovered. The children, two of them with learning disabilities, were placed in Tbilisi’s Infant House, an orphanage by any other name.

 

First published 2014

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