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Maybe happiness for you is something immeasurable, indescribable, unattainable. It is sometimes so difficult for us to explain simple things in words. But little eight-year-old Demuri knows exactly what happiness is. This is a house, dumplings, and a bike! He has only one and very simple dream – to live like other children do.

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Happiness is to have a house, dumplings, and a bit of a bike!

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Maybe happiness for you is something immeasurable, indescribable, unattainable. It is sometimes so difficult for us to explain simple things in words. But little eight-year-old Demuri knows exactly what happiness is. This is a house, dumplings, and a bike! He has only one and very simple dream – to live like other children do.

“Isn’t this broken car a toy? Adults always make things too complicated.”

“My heart hurts, but not in the way to take medications like an adult, it hurts in a different way,” – he says. Do you know why an eight-year-old boy’s heart can hurt? In the summer, on June 19, when his birthday was, he knew that he would not have any party, but deep in his soul he still hoped that his mother would manage to give him at least a tiny cake. But his mom just hugged him and said: “Congratulations! I love you very much and will try to make a cake for you next time.” But this next time never came…

Demuri seems to be already an adult, he is eight years old, but he burst into tears like a baby, he could not resist … “Why does everyone have everything, and I have nothing?” – he cried, but then stopped. What’s the point to cry? Demuri knows crying doesn’t solve anything.

“It’s a bit unfair. Some have everything, while others have nothing”

  I am not going to tell you anything new today. It’s so common: five children, mom and dad living in an old, ruined house on allowance which is enough for nothing. Is not it common? It is. We’ve probably talked about this for a thousand times already. All these stories are so similar to each other that you can just change the names of children and parents, and you get a story about a new family. Magda is 12 years old, Demuri – 8, then Bejan comes – he is 6 years old. Merab is not yet 2 years old. And the youngest Giorgi was born in August. He does not know yet that very soon he will dream of a piece of bread, like his brothers and sister do. He does not know yet that it is a real punishment to be born in Georgia, in a large, socially disadvantaged family.

To be born in a socially disadvantaged family in Georgia, is the real punishment

  Mariam: I don’t like complaining, but there is no way out. We have debts in all shops, we have borrowed money from all our neighbors. Even the bed on which I am lying with my five children was lent to us by our neighbor. These beans, which I cooked today for my children for two days, are also gifts from kind people. Children cannot only eat bread.

– Mariam, have you always been struggling to survive? Were there moments when it wasn’t that hard?

  Mariam: It used to happen… But since my husband got his toes amputated, he became disabled. Physical labor was always hard for him. He has been disabled since childhood. He has one arm and one leg paralyzed. Now he also needs to be looked after like a baby

– Did you manage to work?

  Mariam: Yes, before Merab and Giorgi were born, I worked here in the village, in the field. Someone needed their land to be cultivated, others needed help with sowing or harvesting. I did everything I could. You know, women are very hardy, and when it comes to their children – they are capable of anything to keep their kids from starving.

– What social allowance is enough for?

Mariam: For a bag of flour, pasta and sunflower oil. I make the dough and bake bread. It’s the only food my children have. They don’t let bread out of their hands all day long.

“Get ready faster, I can no longer endure!”

“Now let’s add some firewood, and our lobio will cook faster”

  Bezhan (6-year-old): Will you stay for lunch with us? Mom’s cooking lobio today. Look how delicious it is! I will share with you! Now I’ll put the wood in the stove, and it will cook faster. Do you like lobio?

– I love it. What else besides lobio do you like?

Bezhan: I love toys, but I don’t have them.

Magda (12-year-old): Ma’am asked you about food. Do you like eating toys?

  Bezhan: Oh, I thought she just asked me what I liked. Well, I don’t know, I love everything. It is so good to eat!

“If there was no need to share with others, I would eat two hundred dumplings!”

Magda: And I love dumplings. I can probably eat a whole pot! But I don’t know, I haven’t tried doing that. We share everything equally. The most that I managed to get were seven pieces. But I could defeat eat about two hundred of them!

– Do you want to become a record holder for eating dumplings?

Magda: Nope, I want to become a doctor to treat poor people for free. And to charge the rich ones. Because people like us have no chance to be treated. Daddy’s toes were rotting, but we had no money to get him operated on. And the doctors told us that if we couldn’t raise the necessary amount of money promptly, they would have to cut off his leg. But then we somehow managed to raise money, and they only cut off one toe. So, it’s not good to be poor.

“When you live like a primitive man, without water and food, you don’t manage even to dream”

– You need to study a lot to become a doctor. Do you know that? Do you manage to learn well?

  Magda: Well, I do my best. I really do my best!

  – What are you dreaming about?

  Magda: I don’t know. What can I dream about? Oh, I know, wait a minute, I’ll tell you…

(Magda closed her eyes, maybe, she wanted to better see the things she has seen many times in her dreams.)

I dream of a beautiful birthday. With balloons everywhere, with everything decorated beautifully. Me wearing a beautiful dress. My friends coming to visit us. And mommy bringing a big cake with candles. I have never had any cake or candles. I will turn 13 on January 15. I have never blown out the candles on a cake in 13 years. I saw how other children do that, how they make wishes, but I have never had this.

“I dream of blowing out the candles on the cake at least once in my life”

  Demuri (8-year-old): And I dream about the same thing! But I don’t need all these girlish things. I want just a cake and khachapuri. And some yummies. And let them bring me gifts. No one has ever given me anything. How I want to be like other children at least once in my life.

– And how do other children live?

  Demuri: It is so unfair, others have everything, and we have nothing. Sometimes I want to cry so much. But I’m a man! And men don’t cry.

“Stones instead of toys. But you can’t build a fortress out of them”

  Bezhan: My birthday is coming soon too, on October 27th! And I don’t even want a cake. I’d like to have a blue bike.

– And when mom’s birthday is? What would she like to get as a gift?

Mariam: Come on, what birthday are you talking about. I am so embarrassed, the children want so much, and my only concern is to feed them with bread… My God, how is it possible to live like that. Still, my main dream is foodstuffs, so that I always have them.

This is where the most delicious and naughty “dumpling” is hiding

  – I’d really like to know, and our readers as well, what do you need the most? Probably, there are such things that you cannot buy on your own.

  Mariam: Well, I won’t even dream about a washing machine, TV and refrigerator. We also really need beds. My five children and I sleep in one bed, and my husband sleeps on the couch. If not for our neighbors, there would probably be only bones left from us.

– It is very hard to even imagine your state. And you have a baby, he needs so many things.

  Mariam: You are right. When I found out that I was pregnant, I cried so much. My little one does not yet understand how hard it will be for him to live.

“My baby does not yet know what a hard life he will have to live”

– Mariam, the entire Georgia will read the story about your family. Would you like to tell them anything?

Mariam: I want to say one thing: all children have the right to be happy…

  Bezhan: All children have the right to have bicycles, toys and food! Let’s finish, lobio is ready! We are hungry! Wash your hands and join us!

***

  These children have nothing to eat, and they are ready to share the last. No one teaches this at school, it is impossible to teach this, it’s in your blood. Probably, it is better to share with those who have nothing themselves, because they will be able to appreciate your kindness. As Mariam said, if good people had not shared with them, they would have been dead! Think about it. Everything is fine with us now, but life can change at any moment, and the help of strangers may become our last hope!

Friends, the Shavidze family has no one else to address for help. Complete strangers are their last hope. Mom worries about her children because they won’t last long eating bread alone.

  The Shavidze family needs any help: foodstuffs, hygiene products, home appliances, beds! Together, we can help this unfortunate family, as we helped to thousands of other families in Georgia who were on the brink of life and death

You can visit them yourself and provide all possible help at: Zestafoni municipality, Ilemi village.

  Every time you can help someone, just do it and rejoice that God answers someone’s prayers through you! Let’s show our mercy and make the children believe that miracles happen! They believe in us. Do not let our little compatriots down. Show them what generous people live in Georgia

  We are sure that all together we will manage to change their life.

  Please don’t forget to repost our story. Let your friends know about the grief of this family! It’s extremely important!

  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.

Our Fund’s accounts are:

#GE15TB7194336080100003

#GE42LB0115113036665000

#GE64BG0000000470458000

(purpose: The Shavidze family).

  You can also transfer money from our website.

It is also possible to transfer money from 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).

  We have already helped thousands of disadvantaged people! Let’s support this family too! And who knows, maybe someday we ourselves will need help of strangers! Life is always unpredictable!

  We have good news for you – now you can read the stories of our beneficiaries on InstagramHttps://www.instagram.com/chernovetskyi.fund/ and Telegramhttps://t.me/ChernovetskyiFund.

Even if you dial once this special number, it might save someone’s life. 0901 200 270! God bless you!

When my children get a little older, I will tell them about the kindness of Georgian people – their compatriots! And when they grow up, they themselves will give happiness to those children who have little reason to rejoice!

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“Mom, mommy! Look how many things they brought! It’s so cool!” – 12-year-old Magda shouted joyfully when she saw huge boxes…

 “Merabiko likes boxes of porridge so much, he doesn’t let them out of his hands! I imagine how he will like them when he tries the porridge!

 “I can’t wait until we install it”

 And the younger brothers of Magda – 8-year-old Demuri and 6-year-old Bezhan are spinning around the TV: “Come on, connect it, we will watch cartoons… I want to watch Tom and Jerry, and what about you, Bezhan?” Bezhan nods to him. If only they could connect the TV as soon as possible – he and his brother will watch anything – a fairy tale, a cartoon, even an information program!

 “Hurry up, switch it on! I can’t wait!”

 I rejoice with them. Together with them I want to thank you, friends of our Fund and our countless subscribers. Thank you for brightening up gray routine of one more family. This is undoubtedly your merit!

 But sadness is overcoming me along with this joy: there, in the highland villages, in the era of the technological revolution and the Apple, people dream of a TV as a magic box. They never saw a washing machine! Merab and Bezhan dream of a phone with “a touch screen” to attend online classes during a pandemic or heavy snow.

 The Shavidze family, which has five children, lives in extreme poverty. It is difficult for mother – Mariam – to keep her kids. She cannot work because she has 2-year-old Merab and 8-month-old Giorgi at home. Father – Merab – despite his semi-paralyzed state, still managed to earn a living, but now? He had his fingers amputated and…

 Our Fund published a post about the Shavidze family on November 15.

https://chernovetskyifund.ge/en/projects/finished/804-shavidze/

– Mariam, how your life has changed after the Fund published an article about your family?

 Mariam: First of all, I want to say that you made us very happy… You brought us so many gifts – appliances, sweets, food, cereals – after all, all this is a luxury for us. We had no money even to buy a pacifier for a child… Only if someone gave it to us… We are immensely grateful to the faithful friends of the Fund who took care of us… God bless you!

“If Merabiko says “kata, kata” it means that he likes it, and he is happy”

– Is it all useful to you? We’ve tried to make things a little easier for you…

 Mariam: Useful? Are you kidding? Children dreamed of TV! When I see my children so happy, even in such cloudy weather the sun shines on me. They haven’t had so many sweets in a long time.

When he eats yummy, his eyes shine

My younger ones, Merab and Giorgi, have porridge. At least for a while they won’t go to bed hungry.

“We have so many sweets and cookies at home as if Santa came to us”

We used to be “invisible people” with our problems and sorrows before you published the post about us. And now a lot of people got worried – they came to us in such snow, and generously endowed us.

 – As far as I understand, you have made many new friends. Who visited you? Who do you particularly remember?

Mariam: I don’t want to miss anyone because I am immensely grateful to everyone. I’ll start with Mrs. Maya Chkhenkeli. This woman should live in good health for a hundred years, she’s such a wonderful person. She brought beds for us. Can you imagine, we all slept on the same couch all together?! She brought us a bag of potatoes, flour, sugar, sunflower oil, pasta – a lot of groceries. She brought clothes for children… She brought Bezhan a bicycle and a cake for his birthday.

 I am immensely grateful to Mr. Mamuka, unfortunately, I do not know his last name, he was from Kutaisi. He brought us lots of gifts too: foodstuffs – chicken, sweets, lemonade. He gave a bicycle to my second son – Demuri. He bought the children brand new, warm jackets. It’s so cold here… Very often I sent them to school in turn, because not everyone had warm clothes. We endured hard days…

Merab (Maya’s husband joins our conversation): We do not care about ourselves, if only the children were happy! Maya (addressing his wife), don’t forget to mention that wonderful family who visited us in the snowfall, along with their little child…

Maya: How can I forget them. Even the snowfall did not stop them… May the Lord bless this family. May all their kindness and mercy, which they showed in relation to ours, and I am sure that to many other families, return to them a hundredfold. They brought us a lot of clothes, bought stationery for the children. We couldn’t even buy school notebooks for our children… And they brought groceries: potatoes, butter, meat… Lord, it’s been a long time since my children ate meat.

Merabi: Two women came from Zestaponi with gifts: butter, sour cream, baked goods packed in a box. They gave children toys too. And they brought Mariam household cleaners. It is very difficult for us to buy household cleaners – everything has become so expensive …

I won’t forget the three men, I don’t know their names or where they came from… They came by minibus, brought us firewood and kitchenware. So many people bothered themselves for our sake. I love you all so much! Your support made us so happy!

 – Merab, did the local authorities respond, inquired about your situation?

Merab: No one responded. I am a category II disabled person, but I should have a category I of disability, and they don’t entitle it to me. I am bedridden, my one side is completely paralyzed. I cannot move without assistance. I can’t go to one agency after another. I get medications for free – I have no problems with that, but it’s not just about medications… My children do not have enough food, and this is my sadness and anxiety. I lie watching how they suffer, and I can do nothing about that. If it weren’t for you and kind people, we all would have died… It’s cold at home, the back part is burned down, the windows are broken, it’s very hard for us in winter.

 – Could I please talk to your children?

 Merab: Yes, of course. They are very happy and will chirp like birds. (smiles)

 – Guys, your parents told me that you got a lot of gifts. What did you like the most?

 Magda: I was very happy with the shoes that Aunt Maya gave me, I was very happy with the washing machine, but we cannot install it. I also liked the TV a lot, I watch TV series. Because people in the series live beautifully, and there is always a happy ending…

Demuri: I was happy about everything, but most of all – about the TV. When I grow up big, I will also help everyone, teacher!

Magda (laughs): What “teacher”? You are talking to journalist, not a teacher!

We all laugh.

Now, Bezhan joins our conversation.

Bezhan: How are you? – a little first-grader asks me sweetly – I, too, was happy with everything. I liked a lot of cookies that you brought us. I’ll take them to school and treat my friends.

– Do you have many friends, Bezhan?

Bezhan: Yes. I love going to school. Sometimes, I was unable to go there, but now I will go there all the time.

 – Mariam, I’m sure, you were very happy with the help of the friends of the Fund, but you still need so much: your husband noted that there are no windows in the house, and you need a lot of firewood, you have an extremely cold winter here…

 Mariam: True. It is hard for me to take care of my husband and five children in the conditions we live in now. It’s even hard to live day and night waiting for someone to lend you a helping hand or not. But what should I do?!

 I remember how few years ago, Demuri passed out in kindergarten.

 – How had it happened?

 They said that he got poisoned by something, I don’t know… The child did not come into contact. We had to transport him by mobile resuscitation vehicle. But I had no money for it. Then my mother helped me – she borrowed money from neighbors. We still could not raise enough to cover the clinic costs. I was very hungry all the time. I prayed to Saint George for the salvation of my son. Like this: Saint George, give me the strength to help my son, and I will raise as many children as God gives me… That’s why, I named my youngest son Giorgi. The Church of St. George looks at our village.  I promised the saint then to donate money too, but it didn’t work out in any way, due to lack of funds… I just go up there and light candles every Sunday. Maybe someday I’ll be able to keep my promise.

 – Maya, Magda said that you can’t connect a washing machine, why?

 Mariam: We don’t even have water – we collect it from the well and use it that way. You can probably imagine how hard is it!

 – Is there any solution?

 Mariam: Pump and tank. Which we, probably, won’t be able to buy for a hundred years … But I want it so much! How much easier our life would be if water came from a tap. You gave us this wonderful thing (points to the washing machine), It would be so great if it spun and made my work twice as easy.

 “Once we install it, I won’t have to wash with my hands at night anymore.”

***

Mariam does laundry at night. She barely sleeps. It is cold at home – some windows don’t have glass. There is always a shortage of firewood, due to the lack of an appropriate amount. They always have little firewood because they never have sufficient funds. Kids dream of having a hand-swipe phone (that’s what they call it) so they can attend online classes and keep up with their studies. I will add that the only means of communication in this family is Mariam’s phone, and even that is broken. It is very hard for us to contact them. I called them to arrange an interview with them for several days to no avail. And 12-year-old teenager Magda dreams of having a wardrobe. She wants her clothes not to be stuffed into bags, as they are now, but to be beautifully stored in the closet, like other, ordinary girls have.

And I, again, hope for you, our faithful friends! I know that responsiveness and the desire to do good will unite us again, and we will once again support the large Shavidze family.

 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!

 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

 Your kindness is a chance for yourself to be happy in everything!

 Thanks again to all!

Our Fund’s accounts are:

#GE15TB7194336080100003

#GE42LB0115113036665000

#GE64BG0000000470458000

(purpose: The Shavidze family)

You can also transfer money from our website:

https://chernovetskyifund.ge/en/projects/finished/804-shavidze/

It is also possible to transfer money from 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).

All together we have already helped thousands of disadvantaged people! Let’s support the Shavidze family too, as no one is immune to bad luck! And who knows, maybe someday we ourselves will need help?

We have good news for you – now you can read the stories of our beneficiaries on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chernovetskyi.fund/and Telegram: https://t.me/ChernovetskyiFund.

Even if you dial once this special number, it might save someone’s life: 0901 200 270! God bless you!

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 them!

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