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amount equal to an average yearly wage. Her organisation is credited with reuniting hundreds of families but as of 2023 she had not found her own biological family, An example was Irma
Dvalishvili who in 1990 gave birth to twins who were said to be fine, but the next day she was told that one of them had died. It was only after they insisted that a body was returned to the parents but they assumed that this was the dead twin. The surviving twin, Mariam Kobelashvili, became suspicious when she found that the birth and the death of her twin had never been recorded. The hospital said that it had destroyed all the old records. In 2022, she was posting pictures of herself on social media, at different ages, in the hope of finding her lost sister.
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It is estimated that there may be thousands of missing babies, as this scheme was running across multiple hospitals and in time the babies were also being sent abroad. One boy claimed that he had found his biological parents, who told him that their child had died. However DNA results confirmed that
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Museridze had founded the organisation "Looking For" (Vedzeb) after finding out that a large number of babies were stolen from new mothers. The nurses and doctors told the parents that the baby had died, but actually the baby was sold to other parents for them to adopt. The babies were sold for an
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Museridze was born in about 1984. She went to work for the
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Georgian babies were stolen from new mothers. She founded an organisation where thousands are trying to see these children reunited. She has been honoured by her country and the BBC for founding the Vedzeb organisation.
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when she was twelve but her parents had told her that "everyone has a doppelganger". Her de facto parents did not know that she had a twin and they hadn't told her that she was adopted (or the amount money that they had paid for her).
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