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– joking or not little Lizi says as soon as I enter. “So many sweets and cookies on it! I can look at it for hours! Most of all I like that chocolate, especially when the bread is not good.” And she points her finger to the tablecloth. This joke does make me really uncomfortable…
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– joking or not little Lizi says as soon as I enter. “So many sweets and cookies on it! I can look at it for hours! Most of all I like that chocolate, especially when the bread is not good.” And she points her finger to the tablecloth. This joke does make me really uncomfortable…
What else do you like to look at, besides the tablecloth?
Lizi (9-year-old): What can I look at here? I am joking, ma’am! You can’t take a joke? – and she gives me a wonderful smile of a 9-year-old child. – Let me better show you our yard! Be careful, – she raises her finger up, – There is barbed wire here, don’t hurt yourself cos my legs are all in scratches. Look!
My mom says that beyond the wire there are people living too, and there are many children there. And everything is beautiful. I haven’t seen it. I’ve been to the city several times, you know how many things are there? Have you seen big buses? And many cars, and many shops! They are selling stuff all around. And the streets are large.
– To which city have you been? Was it Tbilisi?
Lizi (9-year-old): Tbilisi is the capital of our country, but we haven’t been there. We just dream of going there! Mommy says there is a zoo there! With a huge white elephant and even a bear… I just can’t imagine it, how what does it look like… Mom says there are many animals living there. They live in cages. Do you know? But how can the elephant live in a cage? Can you believe that? Have you been to the zoo?
-Yes, and hopefully you will see it too. Tamara, is it true that the children have been to the city several times?
Tamara: Yes, unfortunately it is true. We will tell you some more stories, you will not believe. We took the children to Gori on David’s birthday. We just walked in the streets and bought one Snickers for the three of them, that’s all! Children asked me to buy a piece of cake, but we could not, there would not be enough money for the way back. Do you believe we have no electricity? We have been living without electricity for 3 years! As soon as it gets dark we light a kerosene lamp or candles. Every day just the same.
The children are afraid of darkness, David is terrified of darkness and can just suffocate if the candle goes out, and there is no one around. We spend 200 GEL for candles every month, can you believe that?
– What is the place where you live? It seems to be a scary place, with barbed wire all around – it reminds me of war movies.
Tamara: It is scary. There is a military unit not far from here. In communist time geologists used to live in the building where we are now. My mother-in-law used to work with them and when they left she moved in here. It was 33 years ago. Nothing has changed since that time. Everything is getting collapsed and rotten.
As I said before, the area is fenced with barbed wire, the kids often get scratched, it was right today, when Lizi got her leg hurt, and I have no pain-killers to help her. I haven’t got even a bandage or iodine – can you call it life?
Leave alone the iodine, sometimes I have no water at home. I have to walk one kilometer to bring some water – it does not matter what the weather is like. I carry as much as I can. Sometimes my children help me, or if someone comes by car I make a big water reserve to wash the children and tidy up the house. Sometimes, maybe a couple of times per month, we go to our friends’ place to take a shower. It is a nightmare, not a life!
– Tell me about your family.
Tamara: My husband Giorgi is 38 years old. He has some health issues and hard physical work is contraindicated for him. But what else can we do, when there is nothing to eat at home? Sometimes he works in the hayfield or tidies someone’s yards. But it is not enough. Sometimes, – today for instance, – we have only bread. I am just waiting for my husband, maybe he will be lucky today and will bring some buckwheat or something else.
– What is your common diet?
Tamara: Do you know what instant soups are? I use one pack to make a soup for the whole family, adding one potato, some pasta, and plenty of water. It has its flavor, so it’ seems you’re eating real food. But mostly we have pasta. Today, however, there is only bread – that’s all. Anything you can spread on it, would it be butter or jam, is a kind of luxury for us. Look at Nino, she eats yesterday’s bread and enjoys it. Poor baby!
Lizi (9-year-old): Do you want me to teach you how to make a cake out of bread? If you have some butter and sugar at home, just spread the butter on the bread and sprinkle some sugar on the top – it’s so tasty!
– Do you know how real cakes are made?
Lizi (9-year-old): Once on my birthday my mother brought me a cake! A real one! My birthday is on 29th of March. It was a real fest! Imagine, a birthday cake! Unfortunately Datuna has never had any cake. He is so sorry! There are only candles and no cake.
– Datuna, what would you like to have besides the cake?
David (6-year-old): I am dreaming about a car with a remote control. I want it so much! Nothing else! If I had such a car, I would never take Lizi’s toy! She has one favorite toy – an elephant! Sometimes when I want to play too, I just take it. Although she seems to be a big girl, she immediately starts crying.
– Do you offend your sister?
David (6-year-old): What else can I do? There is nobody else to offend, Nino is too little, so I can’t. There are no children around! Oh, I know what else I want! Spiderman’s costume! Then I will never take Lizi’s elephant!
– Lizi, what are you dreaming about?
Lizi (9-year-old): I am dreaming about a bicycle! And about footwear. As Datuna said, there are no children here, and I can only see them at school. The school is far away. I need more than one hour to walk there. When the weather is good, I can go to school, because my shoes do not get wet. But when it rains, I can’t. I can’t go to school barefoot. I also like drawing. But I only have a black pencil, so my drawings aren’t colorful. Both my life and my drawings are gray.
David (6-year-old): Please, promise me that you will come to visit us together with your children! I love children so much! Very much!
Tamara: They are very kind, my poor babies. They haven’t seen anything good in their life, and I prefer not taking them anywhere if it is not absolutely necessary. They are frustrated afterwards. They see that other children have toys, other girls have beautiful dresses, they have food, good food. I don’t want my children to behave like savages, to get shocked of everything. Nino is still so little. But our situation makes her nervous too. She can’t sleep without sedatives.
– Tamara, you can address our readers. Be sure that after this interview, your family will become dear and close to all Georgians.
Tamara: Right this was the reason why I addressed your Fund, I want to let many people know about us. I have addressed you to show everybody that despite of the loud electoral promises there are still children, who have no idea how it feels when you have water and electricity at home! I want everybody to know, that my children have not had normal food for a long time. They have never tasted sweets.
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There was one more story full of pain and despair. There are a few days left till the elections. The candidates blame each other, they make promises, but will any of them visit this miserable family? Who will take care of them? Sooner or later… That is the question.
The family needs absolutely everything: food, hygienic items, clothes and footwear, but most of all they need electricity and water! Explain to me, please, how one can live without electricity in the 21st century?
Hopefully, this story will get to the right people! Maybe someone will tell them “let there be light!”
Because every time you have a chance to help someone, just help and be happy that the Lord has made someone’s prayer come true with your help.
Let’s show our mercy and make the children believe that miracles happen! They sincerely believe in our kindness. Do not let our little compatriots down. Show them what generous people live in Georgia
You can visit this family at the address: Gori, 3 Tskhinvali Highway. They will be very happy. They love it when guests come.
Or call Tamara and support her with kind words, tell her she is not alone. Tamara’s phone: 568 73 45 86
Please repost our publication. Let you friends know about the Kirtadze family! It’s extremely important!
God gives us chances to care about people who are unable to take care of themselves. Those poor people are sent to us by heaven so that we could prove not by words, but in deeds that we trust in God!
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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Mommy does not cry anymore
“I wrote a letter to Santa and asked him for a car with a remote control,” says seven-year-old David. – And mommy told me not to wait, because he may not come. That probably he is sick with some “corona”. That’s not true! Santa is not sick with corona. He has no time for that! Look what he brought me! It’s cool, isn’t it? This is the coolest car! “
“He brought me boots from Bambino, – Lizi can’t wait to show us the present she’s got. – Do you like it? I will put it on when I go for a visit. Ma’am, Nini wants to show you her new sneakers. Let’s go and look, or she will get upset”.
“Guys, guys, let us talk, – their mother Tamara smiles. – They are so happy, and they want to share their happiness immediately. We used to live alone, no one was particularly interested in our problems. And suddenly we got so much attention, care, warmth, love. You brought me back my faith in people!”
The Kirtadze family had become a subject of close attention by our readers after the Chernovetskyi Fund published a post about them.Tamara told us what happened to them in recent months.
“To be honest, I did not expect such a response,” she says. – God forgive me, but I used to be disappointed in people. I often cried. But now I see – I was mistaken, I jumped to conclusions. When complete strangers call, write to you, come, ask what you and your children need, you feel awkward that you used to think that way. And they not only ask you – they really help you. Thanks to their transfers, we got a washing machine, two beds, a lot of food. I haven’t bought some of them for years: chocolate paste and bars, condensed milk, sprats. Well… Kids feasted, of course. But my eyes lit up when I saw useful supplies: eggs, butter, milk, potatoes, rice, oat, pasta.”
David: Mom, you forgot to say about cookies and sausage. We still have one Nutella jar left.
Tamara: Wait a minute, Datuna, I will tell everything. We just started talking.You may be surprised that I am listing the products in such detail. It is very pleasant when there is plenty of food at home and children eat full and feel home coziness. Isn’t it? All thanks to kind hearts.
– We are glad to hear that your feel calm. And we would like to learn more about visits of our readers.
Tamara: Well, a nice woman named Guro (her complete name is Guranda) came to visit us from Batumi. She covered the distance to Gori and back for our sake! Incredible! She learned our story from her friend, and together with her friends she decided to help us. Guro brought us 10 kg of potatoes, carrots, bananas, rice, pasta, butter, bread, beef, and all kinds of sweets by her car. In addition to that she gave us 50 GEL. When her car stopped near our house, my children rushed to meet her. They are very open and sensitive. They understand everything and always try to express their gratitude, to show their warmth.
Marika is also planning to come for visit us from Batumi. Actually, it is she who told Gurada the story about our family. Wonderful Sopho from Tinishidi village came to visit us together with her mother Ia. They came twice. For the first time, they brought us chicken legs (three kilograms), tolma, cutlets (semi-processed food), sunflower oil, jam, preserves for the winter. The second time they came in December, before my baby’s birthday – Nini turned three on January 1st. Sopho is very attentive – she brought a gift for Nini, and lots of clothes and other stuff for us: ten pairs of trousers, three puffy jackets, a blanket. He says that together with her colleagues she will get mattresses for us too.
– I would like to know more about the personal representative of Santa. Who did come on his behalf?
David: Mommy, let me tell!
Tamara: Okay, Datuna.
David: Ma’am, first the journalists from Mtavari Arkhi (Main Channel) came. They were so kind! Can you tell them many thanks from me? They asked what Santa brought to me. I said that he brought nothing. They probably have Santa’s phone number. They texted or called him. They asked him: “Why did you leave Datuna without a gift?” He felt ashamed and urgently sent us three gifts – to me, to Lizi, and to Nini. A very kind lady from Tbilisi brought it to us.
– I think Santa will no longer be mistaken. You see, everything turned out great!
Tamara: A girl from Tbilisi, Mariam Kakhnishvili, watched our story on TV and called me with a question: “What do you want me to bring for your daughters?” She already knew about Datuna’s dream – a car with a remote control. The girls needed shoes, so I said so. These boots for Lizi are from the Bambino store – they are beautiful, high quality and very expensive. I would not be able to purchase such. Nini’s sneakers have a massager. Have you noticed that?
You can’t imagine what happened when Datuna opened the box with the car! He was exited! He almost jumped up to the ceiling for joy. Lizi’s reaction was about the same. Mariam smiled and cried. She could not restrain herself – she was so touched by what was happening.
Your posts always cause a public response; everything around us got in motion. The TV people addressed the mayor of Gori with the query of why we do not have electricity and water.
– I have one important question. Did we manage to influence the officials through our publication? Do you have electricity and water now? Or at least some solution to these problems has been found?
Tamara: I would like to mention the deputy Badri Batishvili. We are happy that we voted for him. He personally came and brought us food: a box of tangerines and apples, three packs of Fanta, Coca-Cola, Zedazeni, several chickens, honey, milk. Thank him very much for this!
The rest of them keep quiet! They probably have their own problems… They do not care about people like us …
Could you, please, write a letter on behalf of your Fund to our Mayor Kote Tavzarashvili. The problem is that this house is not officially registered in my name. Officially we are homeless. Doesn’t he understand this?! And the energy company Gori does not give us electricity without the mayor’s permission! We are talking about basic living conditions; about the most necessary things – using a TV and a washing machine. We don’t have a hair dryer, mixer, vacuum cleaner, or other energy-consuming appliances.
– But why didn’t you ask the deputy about that?
Tamara: I was embarrassed! He’s such a good man … I felt awkward to ask!
We waited a long time, but now, as you can see, we have temporarily moved to a rented apartment in Tsminda Tskali. It has been three weeks since we moved. My children have been unable to attend online lessons since September. There was even a question about their expulsion from school. Is this our fault? I don’t have a modern phone to sign in to Teams. I taught my children myself to the best of my ability. But I’m not a know-it-all, not a universal tutor. But some subjects are difficult even to me. My children are far behind the curriculum in English and math. I have no money for private teachers. My husband and I weighed up everything and decided that we had solve this problem, so live here for now. We pay 200 GEL for rent. Kids at least can access the internet from their netbooks. We took a washing machine and one bed with us.
– Everything is okay with electricity in a rented apartment. So, you have probably tried how the washing machine works?
Tamara: I’m joking now that we have a new family member – the most tireless one. I can breathe again. I have a sick heart. Washing by hand, when there is such a volume of washing (there are six of us: me, my husband, three children, mother-in-law) is very difficult. My mother-in-law is also a sick person. She has high blood pressure, dizziness, she constantly takes medications. Recently she fell and injured her leg … So, you helped us a lot! Besides that, you provided us with detergent powder.
Lizi: When mom is busy, she asks me to turn off the washing machine. I already know how to do that. I will ask her to teach me to turn it on and select the program.
Tamara: This is my smart girl. I am so happy that from her early age she was interested in housework. There is no need to beg her, she wants to know everything and be able to do.
– You have a chance to directly address our readers and tell them everything that is in your heart.
Tamara: My gratitude knows no bounds. I pray for each of you and ask God to protect you. You gave me back hope when I almost gave up, when I was in despair. You felt my heartache and stood next to me. If I had more opportunities, I would have done the same. It is a difficult time now. We are all tested. But love and compassion will save Georgia.
– You live in a rented apartment, so you have extra expenses now. What do you needed now, how can we help you?
Tamara: My baby’s health condition worries me more than the household troubles. Nini needs tomography and treatment. Doctors refuse to vaccinate her until an accurate diagnosis is made. They only prescribed her to take “atarax” regularly. Nini’s treatment makes me and my husband worry. My husband is paid a pittance, I sometimes do the cleaning, I get paid 10 or 20 lari for this. It is money for bread. We can’t afford tomography, which costs 1800 GEL (Sighs.)
– But it is much easier to solve problems together, right? Let’s not fall into despair and wait for the situation to develop. Lot of people read us. I am sure you will get an opportunity to examine your daughter.
Lizi: Are you already leaving, ma’am? Another time I would like to receive you in my house, in my beautiful room.
Nini: Give me a hug!
David (taking me aside): You will thank them all, okay?
– Yes, of course, Datuna.
David: My mom doesn’t cry as much as she used to do. This I am most happy about.
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The words of this little boy went deep into my soul, moved me to tears. Child’s gratitude – isn’t this the highest gratitude?!
It makes you ask yourself – why ordinary people are kinder and more empathetic than most of those in power. Although, we have no power, but a call of our heart will not allow us to remain indifferent. Dear readers, thank you for never taking the position of an observer, not waiting for someone else to do good, to solve problems. You are the first to come for help. And I am sure that after reading this post, you will want to keep contacting Tamara and her children – you will call and visit them. They will sincerely and warmly welcome you. Children are eager to communicate and welcome guests. You will personally talk to Tamara and find the best way to help her family.
Visit the family at: Gori, Tsminda Tskali settlement, 1 Tkviavi Str. The contact number is: 577-92-40-45.
If you have a heavy heart because of everyday problems or unresolved issues, as a distraction just see our posts on Facebook, or better dial the number of any of our beneficiaries. Call them and you will forget about your problems. Because they are nothing in comparison with the problems of those to whom you opened your good heart and came to help in the most difficult moment of their life.
Our problems are noting if compared… Here are true misfortunes, in front of your eyes! Just thank the Lord for what you have. You are the happiest person in the world! Remember this and help those in need.
Unfortunately, problems of this and other families do not end here and now… Therefore, from time to time, look through the stories of unhappy people on our website, talk to them. Every time you dial the Phone of an unhappy person, God is blessing you! For sure! Go on helping these families! This is the best service to the Lord!
Your kindness is a chance for yourself to be happy in everything!
Friends, thanks again to all!
Our Fund’s accounts are:
#GE15TB7194336080100003
#GE42LB0115113036665000
#GE64BG0000000470458000
(Purpose – The Kirtadze family)
You can also transfer money from our website.
https://chernovetskyifund.ge/en/projects/finished/633-kirtadze/
It is also possible to transfer money from ОРРА, TBCpay and ExpressPay terminals. Find our Fund under “Charity” section (You can read more about rights and responsibilities of the Fund following the link https://goo.gl/GY2Gus).
One call saves life – 0901 200 270.
Let’s believe that helping others, we take care of our own souls and draw closer to Lord through the suffering that we share with others!
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