“When another box of formula ends and Nino cries, I want to die, my heart breaks…” 

“Quickly come in and press your ears tightly with your palms, because it will start now!” - Amiran, six years old, tells me. “It has already begun, that’s it! It’ll take a long time - get used to it,” - says Reziko, pinching his ears. Five-month-old Nino and three-year-old Luka cry in unison. Nino is hungry and Luka cries for company. “He just wants to cry,” - Amiran says, and leads his brother out of the room to calm him down and talk.

And eight-year-old Revaz is trying to calm his sister Nino. When she hungry and bitterly cries, only he can comfort her. While the elder brother explains to the baby that there is no food and their mother will bring it soon, the unfortunate mother rushes about like crazy trying to find, borrow, beg for money for another pack, which will last only three days. Or at least for yoghurt ... The baby cannot yet have just a crust of bread, like her older brothers do.

While mom asks neighbors for money or begs for matsoni at the store, Nino stays with her older brother - only he can comfort her

Natalia: That’s how we live. You saw everything! Children are crying from hunger. I never thought that I would have nothing to feed my children. I would endure everything, if only my children would not starve. Especially baby Nino, she's just so young! Do you know what it feels like when she screams all day, and then gets tired and falls asleep?!

It’s terrible to know that your child cries from hunger, and you can’t help in him any way...

Natalia: I rush about, I borrow money from neighbors. God, this baby formula is so expensive, and the price for it keeps going up. I understand everything: there is crisis, everything has risen in price ... But infant formula? How is that possible? What about mothers who do not have breast milk? Should they make their babies starve? What should I feed her? Bread soaked in water? Or the food I take from the social canteen? But she's still young, she can't eat that.

“I don’t like food from the canteen either, but I don’t cry!”

Natalia: I got married for great love and, you know, despite poverty, I never regretted it! Sergo is my second husband, he is the kindest, most caring father. He doesn't have his own house, neither do I. We arbitrarily occupied this building and have been living here for nine years. My husband and I thought that over time we would refurbish everything, rebuild it, but alas. Sergo is a person with very poor health, they severely beat him when he was young. He barely survived. He does not have five ribs, and physical load is forbidden to him, he can’t even catch a cold. We live from payday to payday and pray every day that the children do not go hungry. I knew that he had health problems, I knew that we would live need, but we fell in love very much. 

“As they say, the more the merrier. But children cannot eat that this idyll.” 

Natalia: I worked in a shop - he saw me there! We started to communicate. I told him about my hard fate, he told me about his. We realized that it would be easier for the two of us to overcome all the difficulties, and we got married. So much time has passed, we have gone through so many difficulties together, but our relationship has not changed. And it is so important for every woman to feel loved.

Natalia: We have no one to ask for help. Everyone lives with their own problems. Our relationship with our family is not really good. To be honest, no one wanted us to start a family. That is how we live.

“Look, what a window we have right in the wall!”

Natalia: We have nowhere to go. At least we have some roof over our head... But it’s quite scary to be here in windy days. It seems that the roof is about to collapse, the walls seem to be shaking. Windows and doors are good for nothing. Everything here is old and falling apart. We sleep on the ruins, there is not even a wardrobe to put clothes.

“I’m afraid to let my children out alone. By the time you get home, you can die ten times.”

Reziko (8 years old): And I'm not afraid! You need to stand close to the wall and walk like that. It's not even scary to jump from here!

Reziko: No, I only go to school. All my shoes are full of holes. They won’t accept me to sports clubs. But I like school. I like all subjects because of my beautiful teacher! And I like the Georgian language the most. I also love drawing. I have no “drawing” devices at home, and I only draw at school. I can't even show you my drawings.

"I dream of living like other children live"

Reziko: I want a life like other children have, but I want mom and dad and Nino to be there. And I'll think about my brothers.

Reziko: Amiran does not, but Luka really does! He doesn't play by the rules, and then he starts crying. Then mom says: "He's little, give in to him." It happens all the time. 

“They don’t want to play with me. So what if I'm crying?"

Reziko: They have a beautiful house, they have toys. They have shoes that are not torn. They also bring yummies to school and eat them during breaks.

Luka (3-year-old): I do not want to talk to you! I only talk to my mom!

“I won’t play with you, and I won’t even talk to you”

Reziko: He' s such a meanie! He’s always like that! 

Amiran (6 years old): He doesn’t even let me play with my brother. He gets offended and cries all the time.

Amiran: Me, of course! They tell me in kindergarten that I am a very good boy. All the children scatter toys there, and I tidy up everything!

“It’s good in the kindergarten, we have toys there”

Amiran: Both there and here! There are bricks and a lot of toys, and here are Reziko, mom and Nino. Well, and Luca too.

Natalia: What can a mother dream of? The only thing I want is that my children do not lack the most basic things, that they have food, warmth, and comfort. I dream that they could find their way in life and be happy.

- What, in your opinion, do you need the most at your home?

Natalia: My biggest problem now is baby formula. The formulas cost a lot of money, and the boxes are enough for three days at most. We need diapers too - they are also very expensive. As for the rest - just look how we live. We need beds, clothes and shoes for the children, food, and a small gas bottle. I am very embarrassed to ask, but maybe it will be possible to lay something on the floor? I don’t even know what exactly. 

Reziko: We don't need anything. But our TV does not work well. Can you fix it?

“We put it at the most beautiful place, but it still shows ugly” 

***

The family of Natalia Lagadzishvili is in a terrible situation. What could be worse than seeing your children suffer from hunger? When you baby cries, but you have nothing to feed him? Their father is sick and unable to work. The building, that was built in the last century, is about to collapse on their heads. Four children grow in terrible conditions and are deprived of absolutely everything.

Most of all they need baby formula and diapers right now. Besides that, they don’t have the most basic things for life: good beds, a wardrobe, basic home appliances. Children dream of TV. This family is in a dire need and really needs our support!

You are their only hope! We need to save the children! Look, how good they are!

If anyone is willing to visit and help them in person, here is their address: Sagarejo, 32 Erekle II Street.

Every time you can help someone, just do it and rejoice that God answers someone's prayers through you! 

We are sure that all together we will manage to save them from imminent death. 

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Friends, there is one more request: if you know about the misfortune of a neighbor or friend do a godly deed, drop us an email at: office-fsp@fsp.ge.

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