Bill Gates – $45 Billion for the Benefit of Children

Friends, your help has already saved hundreds of lives. And now, it’s time to extend the same support to Georgia’s Paralympic arm-wrestling champion, Valeri Gabelia. The clock is ticking, counting down the days and hours separating him from certain death—unless help arrives in time. Valeri is battling stage four cancer—Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He’s endured 25 rounds of chemotherapy, but after surgery, his condition drastically worsened. In just one month, cancer has almost consumed Valeri. At 45 years old, he now weighs only 43 kilograms.  The illness has changed him beyond recognition.

Rimma has hydrocephalus. She’s undergone four grueling brain surgeries, and the fifth one was performed in Turkey. A shunt was placed in her head—a special device that helps regulate the fluid that constantly accumulates. Her 26-year-old daughter Mariam, devastated and desperate, turned to our Fund for help. The situation is critical! They’re currently in a hospital in Turkey, but they have no money to pay the bills. Several times a day, hospital administrators come into their room demanding, “Pay up, pay up, pay up.”  One day in the hospital costs approximately 1,000 GEL. Where can a poor orphan find such money? A year ago, Mariam buried her father, who died in a car accident.

Little Nikoloz weeps, heartbroken, because his gravely ill father was sent home from the hospital simply because the family could no longer pay. Oh God, what a tragedy! Forty-nine-year-old Guram, a father of two, has been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. His stomach is entirely filled with fluid, and the poor man can’t even move in bed, let alone stand or walk. Tears of life’s injustice fill the eyes of the man who was discharged from the clinic due to a lack of money. But he tries to hide them from his children. Ten-year-old Nikoloz and thirteen-year-old Andria stand by their father’s bedside, gently caressing him with their little hands. The poor children don’t know how to ease their father’s excruciating pain. Look at this poor man’s tears. He can no longer endure the pain, the dreadful disease, and, most of all, life’s injustice. The poor father simply cannot endure it any longer. Guram urgently needs a liver transplant; otherwise, the children… Oh God, how hard it is to say these words. Yes… Otherwise, these little angels will become orphans.