“Do you know what mom did once so that we wouldn’t freeze? She broke our wardrobe. She broke it like that: she beat it with her hands and feet, so that it turned out like firewood, and then put it into the stove. There was an unusual smell. And it was like a black cloud in the room… But it became warm,” eight-year-old Nino says, showing us what is left of their wardrobe. 

When children freeze from the cold, everything goes into the stove: furniture, garbage and clothes

When they are cold, they burn everything: furniture, garbage and sometimes even clothes. There is little heat from it, there is more than enough stench, but when something burns in the stove, it becomes a little bit better. You get a hope that on this day you will not die from the cold.

When Asmat widowed, she was carrying her third child. Anastasia did not even see her father. Since then, the unfortunate woman barely makes ends meet and does not even know if tomorrow will come for her and for her children. But tomorrow is coming - a new tomorrow for new suffering. If not for their good neighbors, they would not have been alive for a long time. It was the neighbors who addressed our Fund and asked to help them, asked not to let the children and their mother die. 

To get into their dwelling, you need to go through this yard and try very hard not to break your nose.

You need to step over a pile of old torn clothes and toys

You need to go through the scary hallway and not get scared

And not stumble over this spooky water warehouse 

And only after that you get into the crypt. It is just impossible to call this place otherwise.

Here comes the light through this window

Asmat: This is my husband's house. We all lived here together: my husband, my mother-in-law and me with the children. It didn't look so bad back then. I had a good mother-in-law and a good husband. They helped me a lot. And now I'm alone with the children and I can't cope. 

Asmat: My husband was hit by a car. They couldn't save him. He lay in a coma for several days and then he died. And my mother-in-law died of grief a few months later. It was her second son who died - the mother's heart could not stand it. Oh, she helped me so much. God bless everyone with such a mother-in-law! My husband worked and she worked too. I took care of the children. And so we lived. Who needs us now?

Asmat: I get an allowance - 600 GEL. It is not enough for anything. Or maybe am I not able to manage it? I don't know. I'm not very good with money. I feed them – my children are never completely hungry, but there is not enough money for clothes or other things. I can’t even bathe my children – we don’t have water. You must have seen our "water warehouse". You need to walk across the road and bring water home from there. 

Asmat: I would buy beds - ours are falling apart. I would also buy food and a TV, a refrigerator, and a gas stove.

Nino (8-year-old): I want TV! 

Nika (6-year-old): I want a TV too! 

Anastasia (4-year-old): Me too, me too! I go to kindergarten, there are a lot of toys. And bring me a doll with hair! Will you bring it?

Nino: Bring me pencils and notebooks.

“Everything is ugly here "

Nino: Look at the walls... And the floor... And we're ugly too!

Nino: This? Or that?

“Is it really possible to make this nice?”

“In this basin, dirty linen is not washed, it gets even more dirty”

Asmat: Everything in our house stinks of smoke and soot. When I had no firewood in winter, I tore off the doors from the closet and heated the room with them. And the stove does not work well. All smoke comes into the room. I don't have a gas stove. We don't have a lot of things. We don’t have refrigerator.

Asmat: Our gamgebeli Iago Kenchuashvili did a great job for us: they bring lunches from the social canteen from the city of Tsnori for us! These dinners save us indeed! I try to save them, but they spoil quickly. If we only had a small refrigerator, and I could store food. Our neighbors also bring us milk or matsoni. If you don’t eat them right away - they are gone!

Nika: Refrigerator is not interesting! TV is better. Ours just stands and does not work!

“You can’t see anything on this TV, sometimes you can hear it, and sometimes you can see half of a head”

“Give me some sneakers too. My feet get wet and cold”

Anastasia: And we will give you our drawings. Not these, but others! If you bring us pencils and paper, we will draw new ones for you. 

Nino: I won't be able to draw as beautifully anymore! But we will spare nothing for you. If we have something to draw, we will draw more.

These drawings are the only beauty in this house. Only drawings make you realize that children live here

Nino: We do not believe, but let's see, maybe they will come true! And if they come true, then the sausages, and sweets, and chips will come true! Okay?

“And we also want delicious bread, which will not make our teeth hurt”

***

That is how a family next to us, next to our children, perishes in Georgia. They are afraid of cold and hunger. They are dying a slow and agonizing death without noticing that. What else to write, what to talk about? You saw everything yourself. Even photos are enough to make you unable to forget this horror for a long time! 

Should Georgian children live in such conditions?

Shouldn't their faces shine with happiness? 

Where to get happiness for these unfortunate orphans? How to teach them to smile? How to bring back their lost childhood, which should smell of sweets and buns and not smoke, mold, and poverty? Maybe you have an answer?

If anyone dares to visit this family and face the horror, here is their address: Gurjaani municipality, Jimiti village.

Every time you can help someone, just do it and rejoice that God answers someone's prayers through you! 

We are sure that all together we will manage to save them from imminent death. 

Please don’t forget to repost our story. Let your friends know about the grief of this family! It’s extremely important!

Friends, there is one more request: if you know about the misfortune of a neighbor or friend do a godly deed, drop us an email at: office-fsp@fsp.ge.

Our Fund’s accounts are:

#GE15TB7194336080100003

#GE42LB0115113036665000

#GE64BG0000000470458000

(purpose: The Prodiashvili family).

You can also transfer money from our website.

It is also possible to transfer money from TBCpay and ExpressPay terminals. Find our Fund under "Charity" section (You can read more about rights and responsibilities of the Fund following the linkhttps://goo.gl/GY2Gus).

We have already helped thousands of disadvantaged people! Let’s support this family too! And who knows, maybe someday we ourselves will need help of strangers! Life is always unpredictable!

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