The loud cry of a 2-year-old baby saved the family from a painful death in the fire! “Thank you, God, that you touched my Mariam with your hand and woke her up!” - the mother of a large family says, - “this is a real miracle ... We were a couple of minutes away from a terrible death - to burn alive - and then ... This loud cry of my baby was like the sound of a fire siren!!! We were already poor then, and now ... Now our whole life has turned into a heap of ash and ruins! "

- There are many of them, I saw it myself! And we have holes in the walls, what if a snake crawls into the house and bites us?! - says 10-year-old Bachuki with his eyes wide open. He and his brothers - 4-year-old Gegi, 2-year-old Dato, 13-year-old Mate live in a wooden dilapidated shed, which cannot be called a house! “It's terribly cold here in winter and hot in summer. Moreover, the house is in such a state that it’s about to collapse! - Izo (36 years old), the mother of four wonderful boys, cries and shows us the walls of the falling down shed "insulated" with cardboard where they have to live. - The walls are rotten through! But what can we do? We don't have enough money even for food.

“Look carefully, ma’am: if my mother’s lips suddenly start to turn blue, you need to call for help - 7-year-old Irma warns me seriously, just like an adult, and looks into my eyes incredulously. - I don’t know how to give shots, and what about you? But I will definitely learn it soon!"

“For a split second, I even thought that I had lost my son forever! - says Rusudan and cuddles her son close. - In the evening before going to bed, I heard a terrible thud. I thought the children were playing in the yard, but it turned out that Saba had fallen from the chair.” Mom cannot remember these moments without tearing up, because on that day she stared death in the face and refused to let it take her son away!

“My sister and I waited so much for the birth of our brother, we even came up with a name for him, so we wanted to babysit him, play with him ... we thought he would be our protector ... but he is so helpless, so sick ... he can’t do anything himself,” says 11-year-old Anna. She and her older sister - 13-year-old Mari - became not only sisters for 5-year-old Luka, but also mothers! Sometimes they look after their brother even better than their mother does! The boy cannot do anything by himself, he cannot even ask for water.

- Says a beautiful wheelchair-bound girl who dreams of becoming a model. “I can watch the models walking the catwalk for hours. They are so lucky that they can walk ... I also want that, really want. Have you seen how people clap for them, how they film them from all sides? Beautiful! Sometimes I think that I will certainly learn to walk, and sometimes I look at this... this... wheelchair and feel very sad. What if I will have to live on wheels my whole life?”

“She has become very rude - the younger children are afraid of her... Soon she will start yelling at me too. I'm so afraid of that” - says Shorena in tears. She is a single mother of three little children. Anastasia will soon be 2 years old, Mamuka is already 5, and Nino is 15! Yes, you heard right, there are three kids in the family! And Nino is the youngest. Even though her body is of a grown adult, her mind remains of a little child. She is a beautiful young girl who is not adapted to real life at all. So, her mother pays more attention to her than to Mamuka and Anastasia.

“I've never tasted anything tastier! Do you like cakes? " - 6-year-old Vakhtang asks me with curiosity, standing by the entrance of a wretched ruin, looking like a bombsite. “Do people really live here? - I ask to myself, and answer out loud to the kid: - Yes, and what else do you like to eat?” - “Semolina and pasta ... Mommy does not cook anything else. And I dream of a cake! Please come in, don’t be afraid!"

“I wonder what my neighbors will say when they see that my house is collapsing, and I am lying under the rubble? They will probably say: "What a pity for her, poor woman ... God forbid anyone such a fate!" Or maybe no one will remember me... Maybe they will say: "Poor woman will rest in the afterlife... It was so hard for her here!" 62-year-old Eteri says - she is barely moving and has shortness of breath. “Let me show you my estates, - she tries to joke. - Look, that’s where I live, or rather, I do not live, but wait for death to take me.”

“I want to invite all friends of the Fund! I have my little place, but mommy says that they want to take it away. What will happen to my sisters and me? I know that the friends of the Fund can do anything!” David (9-year-old) looked at his sisters Mari and Ani and hung his head.

A life full of hardships! “I don't need anything else, besides my mom would stay alive.” - the handsome boy Giorgi says directly from the entrance, looking with care at his beloved mom.

“My girl, I'll try not to ... Lord, so much pain! I beg you, give me a pain killer, I cannot stand this hellish pain, these hellish torments!” - 27-year-old Giorgi Chkhikvadze, a victim of a terrible car accident, has already undergone 3 operations, lost one leg and may lose the other.

What is a really big family for you? 4-5 people? Maybe 6? Would you be surprised if we are talking about a family consisting of 8 people living in one room of this dilapidated building?

To see those kind people who helped me to defeat blindness, and in particular, the dearest person in the world – my wife Anna.

The biggest dream of 14-year-old Mariam is a wheelchair, which will finally allow her to see her only the tattered walls of the room, and the wonderful light of God: the sky of sunny Batumi, the sea and waves, a beautiful promenade.