St. Nino’s Medical Clinic

Mother Elizabeth is the abbess of St. Nino’s Nunnery in Poka, Javakheti. Poka is a five-hour drive south of Tbilisi. The 2,000 residents are ethnically Armenian Georgian citizens, who do not speak Georgian. This lively, energetic, jolly nun filled the nunnery with art works of her friend Georgian artists. According to Mother Elizabeth “It is so freezing in Poka that for five months this small village is cut off from the rest of Georgia.”In 2001 Mother Elizabeth established a sc