Social worker and primary school teacher. Since 2018 she has been a senior special education teacher at Rustavi Public School No. 26.
Irina Bolkvadze qualified as a social worker at Ilia State University and as a primary school teacher at Sokhumi State University. Since 2018 she has been a senior special education teacher at Rustavi Nikoloz Muskhelishvili Physics and Mathematics Public School No. 26. In 2022–2023 she was a special education teacher in CSDC’s Transit Educational Programme for homeless children.
She has many years of experience working with homeless and vulnerable children. In 2015–2019 she worked at Caritas Georgia’s day centre and 24-hour shelter for homeless children, and earlier at the psychosocial rehabilitation day centre “Sapovnela”. She was also a trainer in office computer programs at the learning centre “Education+”.
She has completed the Ministry of Education’s 120-hour course “Introduction to Inclusive Education” and Caritas Georgia’s two-module training on working with vulnerable children and adolescents, as well as World Vision training on universal design in learning activities and Helping Hand training on non-formal education methods.