Georgian language and literature specialist and special education teacher in CSDC’s Transit Programme since 2021. She works with children with special educational needs.
Sopio Chachua is a specialist in Georgian language and literature and has worked with children with special educational needs for many years. Since 2021 she has been a special education teacher in CSDC’s Transit Educational Programme for homeless children, and since the same year a senior caregiver at World Vision Georgia’s crisis shelter for homeless children in Kutaisi.
Previously, in 2016–2019, she was the inclusive education specialist at Samtredia Public School No. 1, and in 2004–2013 she worked as a caregiver at Samtredia Kindergarten No. 6. She graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of Tbilisi University in Georgian language and literature, and also from the A. Shanidze Music School in Samtredia (piano).
In recent years she has completed a qualification course in behaviour management and a basic course for caregivers, as well as a training on identifying and referring persons with disabilities among Ukrainian refugees in Georgia.