Nine-year-old Mariam does her best to comfort her 4-month-old brother Gabriel when he is hungry and bitterly cries... How to explain to a baby that there is no food and there is no money to buy it? At this time, the unhappy mother rushes around like crazy trying to get some money - find, borrow, beg – to buy another pack of formula, which will be enough for only three days ... “I believe that God will not let my children starve to death! - loving mother Sofio could hardly hold back her tears.” - Mariam is already an adult, she is conscientious and doesn’t ask for anything. But the babies... Saba is only two years old - he cannot understand why I can’t buy him sweets and toys and he cries bitterly. Gabriel is just four months old. I can’t breastfeed him and baby formula keeps getting more and more expensive... God help us!”

What emotions do you experience when you see this baby with a piece of meat in his hands - the most luxury thing his family has? Sadness? A pity? Pain? Fear? It's weird, isn’t it? When we asked him "What are you dreaming about?" 5-year-old Lazare took us to the refrigerator and answered: ‘Look! I want us to often have delicious meat!"

“It's so good that you came to visit us! - 6-year-old Tevdore runs out to meet me. - Please come another time too, okay? So that we have food and we can treat you! " “Mommy prepares yummies on a payday, - 9-year-old Anastasia explains to me. - But it happens rarely."

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.

“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!"

“When they start chirping in six voices, like chicks asking for food, my heart bleeds. And I have only one dream - to give them food! That's all ... I dare not dream of something else ... We just want to eat. " It is difficult to write about hungry children on holidays, when housewives in all houses cook, set tables, and there is a lot of food... Maybe not everything will be eaten, a lot of food will be thrown away ... And at the same time, you are writing about a family where six children are malnourished, wear rags, and their biggest dream is to eat full. "Wouldn't we have to starve tomorrow if we eat an extra piece of bread today?" - this is their main problem.

“Mom begged him and tried to cover herself with her hands when my father attacked her with an ax,” recalls 12-year-old Nia, and bitter tears start rolling from her eyes. A terrible tragedy happened in the girl's life. Her own father hacked her mother to death with an ax right in front of her! The girl was only 5 years old then ... And how can she live with this pain in her soul, with this insane horror that has settled in the child's heart since that day?! “My husband and I did everything for Nya to have a family, so that this pain in her heart would subside. Of course, it will not be forgotten and will not pass completely, but the girl must feel that we are near, that we love her. It's scary to even think what she had to endure! "- sobs Tamuna (30 years old). It was she, the aunt of little Nia, who took custody of the girl after that chilling event... Despite poverty and the fact that she has three children of her own, a real Georgian woman, kind, loving and caring, did