A Good Day With No Hope – The Digital Journalist

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by Carsten Snejbjerg

Koba Kopaliani leaves the room. He closes the door quietly behind him and smokes a cigarette on the small balcony. Behind the door the family is gathered around the only meal of the day: potato soup and bread. Neither Koba nor his wife have jobs so they rely on what money they get from the government to support themselves and their eight children—right now that totals $17 per adult and $7 per child. For the majority of the people living in the city of Tskhaltubo, Georgia, this is the reality of life.

I was in Tskhaltubo to do a story for the Danish NGO Cross Cultures Project Association

Check it out here.