Now, Roman smiles again and jokes a lot: “I’m like a wounded eagle who has regained his strength! My back used to hurt so much I couldn’t sit in a wheelchair for five minutes. Now I can sit for an hour and a half – even two. I can get up from the wheelchair by leaning on my hands. My knees bend, I feel strength in my arms and legs. It’s nothing like the man who arrived here a month ago. I couldn’t even open a bottle of water – now I can. What else can I do? Maybe drink two liters of wine!” Our dear baker no longer knows what depression is. He has only one wish – to continue his treatment, to stand on his feet again, and to walk! Roman dreams of walking to church on his own two feet and lighting candles for all the kind friends of the Fund. He blesses you every morning when, even with great effort, he manages to get out of bed. God, how he misses his tone – his clay oven – and how much he longs to once again bake you that hot, fragrant shoti bread, as warm and generous as his own soul!

Giorgi’s body is paralyzed – but not his will to live. And not his eyes, which silently plead: “Don’t leave me…” His mother has done everything she possibly could. Now, she and her son need our support. A palliative care ward is not a sentence. Indifference – that’s the real sentence.

Save her, friends, save this woman – lonely Irina! There’s o one else who can! Her agony never ends! And no one but us cares about her suffering! She needs to be examined in Turkey, because here in Georgia, clinics have refused to accept a poor, lonely woman like her for proper medical examination! Is that humanity? Have they forgotten that every human life is a gift from God? And please, for God’s sake, avoid havins complicated surgeries done in local clinics! Or else, this could be the tragic result! It doesn’t matter how much money you have – it will never be enough to cover a lifetime of treatment if something goes wrong! This can happen to anyone after undergoing complicated brain surgeries in local clinics. And thank God there are now hundreds of thousands of us in Georgia – because without collective support, even the wealthy couldn’t afford this! Right now, we’re talking about a proper examination at the very least, because in Georgia, Irina has been sentenced – without trial – to a slow, agonizing death! Officials in high offices decided: “Who needs her?” But this poor woman keeps fighting, fighting to live. She desperately wants to live! We cannot abandon her! We must not!