Khanim is a young girl who can often be seen sitting alone begging on Tbilisi’s Pekini Avenue. Her elder relatives identify themselves as Kurds from Azerbaijan. The problem of children living and/or working on the streets is not specific to any ethnic group © Onnik James Krikorian 2014
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty has just published a photo story as part of my long time personal project on social vulnerability in Armenia and Georgia. It’s been going on since 2000 or 2001 and I’ve written countless articles and produced many more photo projects that at some point I need to upload to this site. Anyway, for now the RFE/RL photo story.
This photo documentary was started in 2013 by Onnik James Krikorian. It grew out of another project documenting the problems of children deprived of parental care and sent to institutions in Armenia and Georgia during the years between 2000 and 2010. Georgia has initiated reforms of its child protection system, but many children still can be found living or working on the streets.