Meet Zhuzhuna Akhaladze (36 years old): "At night, when my children are sleeping, I get up several times and listen to each child: how are they breathing, aren't they sick? And I can't stop kissing them! I have nothing else to give them but my love."

"Mommy, help me! Mommy, I'm dying! - Eka whispers through her teeth - she is no longer even able to scream... - I'm already dead, mom, am I in hell? Oh God, why does it hurt so much?" The poor girl bites her lip to the blood, squeezes her mother's hand tight, and her eyes rain tears.

"If I cannot walk, if I will have to crawl on my knees - I will not abandon my grandchildren, I will not allow them to feel bad, I will not leave them... Until my last breath, I will be with them and will do everything possible so that they are not left alone!" Eight-year-old Jony, 11-year-old Luka, and 12-year-old Nino have a Guardian Angel named Nunu. She is a mom, grandmom, and friend for them. She lived a hard life, she is seriously sick, she needs care and attention, but the hard fate befell her - to bring up her grandchildren who do not have a mother.

And hunger can take the lives of those who remained… One year passed since the tragedy in Baghdati happened when the fire took the lives of the whole Gorgodze family. The fire devoured four innocent children and their mother alive... Do you remember what a tragedy it was, how everyone cried and sobbed: "If we could, we would have saved them... We would have made their life better..." But unfortunately, sobbing will not get the children back to life.

Cancer! Is there any word that sounds scarier? It all started with a tiny pimple, which looked harmless. And after just a couple of months, 46-year-old Khvicha was diagnosed with the fourth stage of soft tissue sarcoma.

“I can see with only one eye, but my parents and sisters cannot see at all, my brother also sees,” - 11-year-old Salome tells us. – “You know, I tell them what the weather is like today, how the trees are blooming, I tell them that Mariam draws very beautifully. That Giorgi has very kind and beautiful eyes. That Keti smiles like a princess. Mom says we have just one eye for five of us”. Mother Maya and father Zura are blind - they can’t see anything. They have not seen how their children grew up and changed, they can’t even imagine how beautiful they are! They know them only by touch and they feel their love. People who can see will never understand how it feels. We can feel someone else's pain because we all once experienced it, we can empathize with someone who has lost a loved one because we also lost our loved ones, but how can a sighted person understand a blind person? Probably, it’s almost impossible.

Sometimes, when we listen to the stories of our heroes, it seems that the devil is playing an evil game for survival with them. “Would you survive without housing? Would you survive without food? Would you survive freezing? Maybe you want me to grant you some disease?” - the death is standing nearby making the rules of this cruel game, in which people should die, more and more complicated. But they survive. Despite everything. They don’t want to be led by the devil in his deadly game.

“Look, my mom has seven stitches on her head!” - a little beauty Bella says - “Such terrible things happen to her! She collapses, rolls her eyes, and can’t stop shaking! " Oh, God! There is so much sadness in the beautiful eyes of this child... The baby is only 9 years old, every day she sees how her dear mother suffers severe attacks, she sees how a terrible disease drains her mother’s life force. A child's heart hurts, because her mother can collapse any second and hit her head - anything can happen to her!

Her father who has abandoned her will never read her bedtime stories. Her grandmother and grandfather will never invite her to their home. All this two-year-old princess has is her crying mom and some bread from the social canteen. Her relatives left her even before she was born! “My relatives did not accept me, they said: if you want to give birth to your baby you should get your husband back. If you don’t do that - get rid of the baby. What could I do? What would you have done?”

Five hungry children live here in these post-war-looking ruins, dreaming of warmth and food ... The rooms are so cold that you can’t take off your jacket. But winter is still ahead!

17-year-old Buba has been confined to a wheelchair since he was 5 years old ... He doesn't know what it is to run, jump and play football with boys ... He could only dream about it. The ruthless diagnosis made by doctors is - cerebral palsy. Does it sound like a verdict? But not for Buba's brave mother, Lela (47-year-old). These words sounded like a call to battle for this kind true Georgian woman. From that moment on, all her efforts have been focused on putting her son on his feet. And mother’s love has no limits...

Tamari (10-year-old), a little beauty with sad eyes met us with these words. “You see, he turns black… I am so scared, that I run away, hide in a far corner and cry… But don’t tell my mother, okay? Are you kind? Mom said that you would come to help us!" - the child looks into my eyes trustingly ...

Let me introduce Gia Beridze (52-year-old) to you. He looks like a healthy young man, but looks can be deceiving. His rib cage is cut in the middle and without pills his heart would not work. A day without pills can kill him. The person who fought for us, who saved hundreds or maybe thousands of people without knowing about that, does not deserve such an ignominious end. Does he?

I love him so much! – the eyes of little Giorgi (8-year-old) are getting wet of tears. I have nothing to answer. I wish the ground would swallow me facing his pure and inquisitive childish gaze. Giorgi’s brother Nikoloz (10-year-old) is seriously ill, and it’s not likely that anybody can promise Giorgi that his brother would hug him soon.

-joking or not little Lizi says as soon as I enter. “So many sweets and cookies on it! I can look at it for hours! Most of all I like that chocolate, especially when the bread is not good.” And she points her finger to the tablecloth. This joke does make me really uncomfortable...