“Ma’am, look. I used to have very long hair. Down to here,” – says 10-year-old Sofiko and points to her back. – “But I cut it off.”

The word “mother” for four children – 3-year-old Luka, 5-year-old Gabriel, 13-year-old Vazha and 15-year-old Levan – is a taboo!

“Caution! Slow down! Stop! Danger!” Probably it is safer to walk in a minefield than in this house. Having worked for many years at the Fund and having seen the primitive living conditions, we sometimes think that we got already used to such houses. But alas! It is impossible to get used to this.

Have you ever seen the sad eyes of a child? Not, of course! Children’s eyes always radiate an endless joy! Children never have problems, but not those who are we going to tell you about, friends!

“We play and run. It helps us to forget that we are hungry,”- little Gvantsa and Saba say. At such a young age, these kids already know what real hunger means.

Six-year-old Oto looks at his holey shoes with annoyance. “Do you want to go to school, dear?” – I try to insinuatingly find out what upsets him so much. “Sure! Everyone goes to school, and I want too! What do you think will my feet get wet?” Dressed literally in rags, the little boy met us by a strange building, which only remotely looked like a house.