Bus shelter
Bringing up a baby is never easy, but 21-year-old Teona Meladze is facing the challenge in particularly tough circumstances.
She belongs to a family of eight who live in two abandoned buses in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, and together get by on about $110 a month from the state, with some additional income from occasional jobs and selling scrap metal.
Twenty-two-year-old Kristine Chkadua, the eldest daughter in the family, holds her baby nephew Misha as she walks between the two abandoned buses where they live.
Teona Meladze, the wife of Kristine's brother Dato and mother of two young children, washes dishes outside.
Kristine uses her mobile phone inside one of the buses, decorated with fabric hangings and cuddly toys.
Teona holds her three-month-old baby Misha.
Bayram chats with members of his family inside one of the buses. The 48-year-old earns some extra money for the household by helping out in a garage from time to time
Kristine takes a drink of water inside one of the buses.
Misha sleeps splayed out on the bed.
Three-year-old Gurami peers out of the window of a bus. While the family's living quarters are unusual, the hardship they face is not so uncommon in Georgia. According to official statistics, about 435,000 people, just under 10 percent of the country's population, receive targeted social assistance because they live below the poverty line.
