“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?”

“Mom, why are they looking at me like that? It’s because I'm not like others?" These words hurt me more than a machine gun fire. These words kill me. “He is not long for this world, - the doctors said 10 years ago, when Giorgi was born. - Be prepared for the worst!” But his mother Tinatin refused to believe that. Giorgi spent 35 days in intensive care unit... For 35 days his mother asked God not to take her son away from her. God heard her - Giorgi stayed with his mother, and a lifelong struggle began! "The most difficult thing in raising a special child are the "good advices” of complete strangers and the gazes of bystanders who feel sorry for either you, or the child, or themselves, because of seeing this..."

“Leave him and live your life! He will bring you nothing else but problems,” they used to say to the mother learning about the son's diagnosis. "You know, such children don't live long." “He will bring you lot of suffering!” Maya have heard many more hurtful words. Even relatives and friends turned their backs on them. But despite everything, she has chosen the son. And they were left alone in the whole world, but they are together! Nikoloz is bedridden, he does not walk, cannot sit on his own, does not talk, he only reacts to sounds sometimes and hums. Mom keeps taking care of him as in his first days of his life. Her son's condition sometimes improves, but frequent attacks and seizures he has seem to nullify all her efforts. She puts her son’s health together bit by bit from scratch, again and again...

Nata (12 years old): Sometimes I close my eyes tightly, put my hands together and pray quietly. I imagine I can walk, run, visit my friend by myself and we go to church together! What if ... I would paint myself without a wheelchair. Without these wheels! Doctors say that I won’t be able to walk. And what do you think? I believe - God will hear me! Doesn’t he help kind little girls?

“When my son falls like dead, I want to die together with him!” says Nunu (28-year-old), poor mother of 4-year-old Luka. "Each of his attacks is a test for me, and every time my heart stops ... When he falls to the ground, and his skin turns blue and cold, I just lose the ground under my feet."

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 ...

Funny little Nutsa (8-year-old) puzzled me with this question right at the doorstep "You are a doctor? Or maybe you are a magician? Mom said that you were coming to help us! - the girl does not stop. - You know, I will also become a doctor when I grow up, and I will definitely come up with a cure for Mate, but this will take a very long time ... Maybe you can cure him, otherwise he won’t walk and play with us at all. Look what funny shoes he has!