I pray to God that my son overcomes this disease, but I understand that the child needs to be treated. But there is no way to find money.

Irina and her children often go hungry, have no opportunity to be treated and eke out a miserable existence in a rented apartment.

Being socially unprotected, this family lives from the tiny social allowance hoping that someone would lend them a helping hand.

14-year old Luka, 10-year old Mariam, 3-year old Nino and 2-year old Ilya do not get enough food; they are often starving

She needs to find food to feed her children; she needs to take them to kindergarten and put them to bed hungry; when they are ill she needs to buy medicine

Standing near windows of the house where live the Kipshidze one can hear earsplitting cries grading into whine. Poverty and horrible despair rule here.