Bill Gates – $45 Billion for the Benefit of Children

Luka is just one week old. The baby cries endlessly from hunger. He doesn’t get enough milk, but his parents have nothing to feed him with—they are too poor to buy baby formula. It’s hard to understand someone else’s pain if you’ve never experienced anything like it yourself. Think about it! What if, God forbid, it were your children starving?  How would it feel to see your little son or daughter crying from hunger? The only food in their home is bread brought from a free canteen. But should this be the diet of a breastfeeding mother and her 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.