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“I would never ask for anything!” – Little Mari (6-year-old) shouted She heard her name in a conversation between our correspondent and her mother Tamuna (38-year-old), who burst into tears after she had told us that her child did not have a doll. The little girl climbed on her mother’s knees to carefully wipe away the tears on her face with her tiny, doll-like, gentle hand.
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0901200270“I
would never ask for anything!” – Little Mari (6-year-old) shouted She heard her
name in a conversation between our correspondent and her mother Tamuna
(38-year-old), who burst into tears after she had told us that her child did
not have a doll. The little girl climbed on her mother’s knees to carefully
wipe away the tears on her face with her tiny, doll-like, gentle hand.
Seeing
how this beautiful Georgian family of Khaptani lives, we, the Fund employees,
could hardly hold back our tears. And we have already seen so many misfortunes
… It’s hard to believe that people live here! Children! On concrete, in
dampness, in dirt!
Father
– Jimsher Khaptani (43-year-old) – suffers tuberculosis. Mother –
Tamuna(38-year-old) – is a second category disabled, she has had three eye
surgeries, which means she has had three anesthesias that impacted her
health…The caring parents are unable to keep their two angels – Mari
(6-year-old) and Giorgi (3-year-old), they cannot even provide them with basic
stuff. And this is the most painful for the parents.
With
trust in God and a last sparkle of hope, they addressed us, friends, for help. Because
Georgia is a small country with a big heart, and we will never leave our
neighbor in trouble.
– Tamuna, what was the
misfortune that brought you to us?
Tamuna: Better say a whole set of troubles and
misfortunes…Desperation…My children starving… We just have no place to
live! We have been moving from one rented apartment (if it can be called so) to
another for seven years. Look around, it is not a home, it’s a burrow.
It happened so that both my
husband and me are sick and we cannot work to earn some money and not let our
children starve. Landlords keep letting us out because we are unable to pay the
rent. I don’t know what to do and where to go.
– How did it happen that you
found yourselves in such a situation?
Tamuna: My husband has
tuberculosis. He has been treated for a long time and now he is permanently
supervised by doctors. He cannot strain. He starts coughing and his temperature
rises. I am a second category disabled. At the age of 15, I stabbed myself in
the eye when I tried to open a bottle of lemonade. I had three surgeries. They
saved the eye, but I lost vision forever. I tried to work in a shop, but failed. Probably, a number of anesthesias I had
affected my health. I don’t want to go into details, because I don’t even know
exactly what’s wrong with me. There is no money for doctors and the treatment,
and I gave up on myself a long time ago. Dizziness, problems of the
gastrointestinal tract and spine, I cannot stand for a long time or lift
weights … This is not the way I used to see our future… (Cries.)
– Tell me, how did you meet your love?
Tamuna: I
raised in Dighomi, and Jinsher’s relatives lived next to us, so he often
visited them. Later it turned out that he was in love with me since
childhood…He always found an occasion to write or call me, but he was afraid
to confess. He was afraid I would say “no”. Then he made me promise not to push
him away after he told me a secret, and he dared. We had been dating for four
years when my mother died. I was very attached to her and took her death hard.
So it was Jimsher who supported me then and who helped me to overcome the pain.
We got married soon. We have been very happy together, indeed, we have got
wonderful children. But we never thought that we would have nothing to feed
them on … (Sobs.)
– How
did you imagine your future?
Tamuna: I thought that both of us, my husband and me,
would be able to work, and provide our children with at least the basic things
…But do you see how it turned to be? Our health flailed. To be honest, I have
no idea how to live, we have no place to go, no money to pay rent, the children
are half-starving all the time.
– Does anybody help you? Parents or
relatives?
Tamuna: There is absolutely nobody
to help us. My father died soon after my mother’s death – a stroke. My brothers
can hardly make ends meet. One of them has three children, and you know, there
is unemployment in our country. As for my husband, his childhood was hard. His
mother died when he was quite a baby. His father married for the second time
and the stepmother hated her stepson. She often beat and punished him. His
grandmother took him to her place – he had no one else in the world except her
… Relatives? They don’t care about us. They have their own troubles, families
and kids. Those who could help have already helped. I have been borrowing money
from them for years and I am unable to pay off the debts. Who can keep a whole
family? Everyone has their own troubles.
– We are so sorry! And did you address anybody for help? The
local government, for instance?
Tamuna: Yes, we did. They occasionally give us some
money, it’s called an ad-hoc aid. It’s enough to keep us from dying of hunger.
I appealed to the town hall asking to help us with the rent. My request was
satisfied, but the problem is that now the rent price dramatically increased
and we cannot find any flat. The state covers just 300 GEL of the rent. They
are letting us out from this flat, because the landlords are planning to
refurbish it. A neighbor can shelter us for several days, but we are unable to
sign a rent agreement with her. There is some mess with the documents. So it
seems we will end up in the street… With two children… Do you understand?
– How did it happen that you found yourselves
without any roof over your head?
Tamuna: My
husband has never had any. He used to move from one relative to another all the
time. And my parents’ tiny apartment belongs to my brothers. One of them lives
there with his three children. Another one is not married and he lives with our
relatives.
My
husband and me have been renting this house for four years. Actually, you can
see that it is not a house, it’s a kennel. The concrete floor, dampness – no
whatever conditions. And now they let us out.
–
What
is your family income? What’s it enough for?
Tamuna: The
social allowance and my disability pension make 380 GEL total. But as we were
unable to pay the rent, we had to take a credit from the pension account. We
also have a 60-GEL food coupon… Thank God, now it is our turn to get food at
the social canteen.
– What do your children eat? What is their
everyday diet?
Tamuna: (Sadly smiles) They eat whatever the God
gives them, literally. Cereals and pasta is the only food we can afford. And
the food from the social canteen. Sometimes we do not have enough money for an extra
loaf of bread. When they gave us products home from the kindergarten due to the
pandemic, you should have seen how the children were happy to find there a
piece of cheese! It was a real feast for them!
– What do you believe in? In what do you see
the salvation?
Tamuna: Only the faith supports me. You know, every
time when I was about to sink into despair, to give up, a way out always used
to pop up. The God is merciful, he is always near, you should only believe.
– Do you believe in the kindness of
strangers?
Tamuna: Yes,
of course! One should believe! This is a mercy of God too. It often happened
that when we had nothing to eat some of the neighbors came to help, they even
brought us pots of hot dinner.
–
Tamuna, tell me about your children, please.
Tamuna: They are wonderful! The eldest Mari
(6-year-old) is a very conscious girl. She understands that we are in a
hardship, she is never crotchety when we go shopping, never asks to buy her
sweets, but I see how much she wants all this. She can’t stand me crying. She always
hugs me, trying to comfort me saying: “Mommy, I will not ask you for anything,
just don’t cry, please!” This year she went to the first form. You can’t
imagine, how happy she is! They gave her a tablet and she feels herself big
now. When she was a little girl she used to draw houses, she was quite good at
that. She said it was our future home.
Little
Giorgi is 3 years old, but he does not talk. Kindergartens are still closed, so
he has to stay home and
get bored.
– Can I talk to your daughter, please? Hi,
pretty Mari! How are you doing? Mommy says you are already big and you go to
school.
Mari (6-year-old): Yes! I am a schoolgirl now and they gave me a
real computer – a tablet computer! They just warned us to be very careful with
it, because it can easily go out of order.
– Do you like going to school? What is your
favorite subject?
Mari: Yes,
I like it! I will be very smart when I grow up, I will have a job and a lot of
money, and I will buy a big and beautiful house for us for sure! I will work at
a bank! I love math and I can already count up to 200!
– What
a smart girl! What else are you dreaming about?
Mari: I want
to have many beautiful dolls, mine are already old and broken. I also want a
bicycle for my brother, to ride together. Mine is actually old and often goes
out of order – then by daddy fixes it. I also wish that my mommy would never
cry…
– Tamuna: what is your biggest dream?
Tamuna: I
dream that my children would never starve, that they would always have all the
basic staff. That they would have their own roof over the head.
– What,
do you think, you need most in your home?
Tamuna: We
will be happy to get any help. My children are permanently undernourished. I
can’t see their hungry eyes anymore! We have nothing, absolutely nothing! We
don’t even know how it is to wash with hot water. Not with a bucket heated on a
wood stove! My kids have watched TV only at our neighbor’s place. Nobody will
believe that. It would be also good to have diapers for Giorgi, he needs them
at night.
– Why
did you decide to address us?
Tamuna: I was
told that you really help many people. Believe me, you are my last hope! Your
Fund has so many good friends. I hope they will take my children’s pain close
to heart and will lend us a helping hand. God bless you all for your good
deeds!
***
Friends, the Khaptani family are our
compatriots, and they found themselves in a very difficult situation. Their
health condition prevents them from working and providing their children with
the basic stuff. But God is merciful and he showed them a way to your kind and
empathic hearts!
The Khaptani family is about to end up in the
street, they have no place to live, they are deprived of the basic conditions.
Little Mariam (6-year-old) and Giorgi (3-year-old) do not know what sweets are,
they can just dream of toys and nice clothes. These innocent children simply
have no childhood, but it is in our power to help them!
The Khaptani
family urgently needs food, appliances and diapers for little Giorgi. The
family will be grateful for any help!
You
can visit the Khalpani family in person and provide them help. Their address is: Tbilisi, Mukhiani, 3
Khrekhilis street.
Or you can call poor Tamuna and cheer her up! Her phone is: 555 601 165.
Please
repost our publication. Let your friends know about the grief of this family!
It’s extremely important!
God
gives us chances to care about people who are unable to take care of
themselves. Do not pass by someone else’s trouble! Those poor people are sent
to us by heaven so that we could prove not by words, but in deeds that we trust
in God!
Friends,
there is one more request: if you know about a misfortune of your 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: Khaptani
family)
You can also transfer money
from our website.
It is also possible to
transfer money from Nova Technology, TBCpay and ExpressPay terminals. (You can read
more about rights and responsibilities of the Fund following the link
https://goo.gl/GY2Gus).
We have already helped many
disadvantaged people! Let’s support the Khaptani
family, as no one is immune to bad luck! And who
knows, maybe someday we ourselves will need the help of strangers!
One call saves life – 0901
200 270.
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