Sofi King

You might be wondering why my music and poems are so important to me. At the age of 5, my parents moved from Russia to Canada. The experience of learning a new language, a new culture, and trying to make new friends was a life changing for me. Then, 8 years later, I moved again, this time back to Russia. Throughout my life, I have always used my music and poems to capture these feelings. It is like a beautiful time capsule for me to always be able to look back at it.

I felt a deep connection with music from my first school choir. Later, I progressed to The Vancouver Academy of Music and then to The Academic Girls Choir in Krasnodar, Russia. To further my musical interests, I take music lessons on the piano, the guitar, and in songwriting. I feel like songwriting and poetry have become a second language to me.

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Working on this book, we visited Giorgi Margvelashvili, (4th President of the country Georgia), his wife Maka Chichua, and their two toddler sons, Teimuraz and Toma, in the small countryside town of Dusheti.
Soon they will be forced to leave their lovely cottage, adorable kitten, and dog to move to the city. They hate living in the city, but Giogri and Maka want their children to get a good education. They face a difficult choice that will change their lives: either stay in their cottage with a beautiful view of the mountains or move into the noisy city of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. This hard decision overwhelms, not only the former president, but many other parents. The problem of depopulation of rural territories exists all over the world. For example, in the past 25 years, a similar problem has been observed in China. In Italy, according to some estimates over the past few years, thousands of villages have lost up to 90% of the population.

I want to raise awareness about getting an education in the countryside, starting with the Giorgi family. With all the technical advancements of the 21st century, I am looking to find others that will help draw attention to this problem. It is also very important that these rural areas have good daycare centers that will help develop the educational aspect in a child's early years. It breaks my heart if I would have to see Toma and Teimuraz leave their comfortable countryside home, in order to get a good education. I urge everyone to show your participation and help all the children, like Toma and Teimuraz!