The life timer is ticking! The young father has a malignant brain tumor, stage 4 glioma. The poor man went to work in Germany so his family wouldn’t lack a piece of bread. He worked a lot. Lately, he felt unusual weakness but didn’t quit his job, as he needed to support his family in Georgia. The legs of this huge man have become so thin. This is how cancer eats someone alive… Take care of your health, friends, and seek medical help or assistance from the Fund in time! We are always here for you! Unfortunately, Irakli has stage 4 cancer. Doctors cannot offer any hope for salvation. The seven-year-old girl understands that her father will soon fly to heaven, so she doesn’t leave his side for a second. Right now, the family needs money. They desperately need it for everything! Let’s help this daughter say goodbye to her father and the mother to her husband in a dignified way! And let’s take ongoing care of this soon-to-be orphaned family! The little girl and her mother need to know that in tough times, people in Georgia don’t abandon each other! How much longer Irakli will live and in what conditions he and his family will be – that depends only on us!

Over the course of 5 years, 38-year-old Alena underwent 16 hours-long difficult operations with Georgian doctors. How she remained alive is simply a miracle! There was no one to help her! The doctors periodically examined her, reassured her, but shrugged their shoulders and seemed to be just waiting for her to die so that she wouldn’t interfere with their life in peace! And when we at the fund saw her terrible situation, we rushed to help her along with the friends of the fund! She also has a minor child living with her! So terrible!

Until the age of seven, Tedo couldn’t move a single finger. He wouldn’t have been able to swat away a wasp even if it were eating his eye. The doctors said he would die, but his mother brought him back from the brink every time! Before you is a gravely ill and unfortunate but handsome Georgian boy, Tedo! Until the age of seven, he lay in bed neither alive nor dead. During childbirth, the baby likely slipped from the hands of the midwife and injured his head, even though he was born perfectly healthy! A tragedy beyond comparison befell Tedo’s family! One day, a wasp landed on the boy’s eye, and he couldn’t brush it away. Unlike bees, wasps sting without provocation. They are just aggressive! It’s a miracle that Shorena, the boy’s mother, was always by his side. Just a second more, and Tedo might have lost his eye! My God, unfortunately, you have heard so many such stories from us, friends, about many Georgian hospitals, especially those located in the provinces, far away from Tbilisi.

The scoundrel husband left the unfortunate woman as soon as he found out that their son was born with a terrible disease – autism! Georgi clings to his mother like a child who can’t live a day without her love. So handsome and so miserable. Two deeply unhappy people, two tragedies. Mother and son—they are alone in this cruel world. Without means to live, without food and medications, and with the relentless threat from their landlord to throw them out like dogs onto the street! to this joyless life with all I have. Because if I die, what will happen to Giorgi? His father and my other child—my daughter—forgot about us long ago. Sometimes Eteri looks sadly at old photos, remembering when she was happy! Besides Giorgi, she had a beloved daughter, Nini. Such a sweet little girl. But as she grew, by the age of 14, she suddenly became cruel! She lost her heart and conscience, never to be found again by her dying mother!

After the third stroke, which happened 6 years ago, and the death of her husband, mother doesn’t remember anything anymore! She doesn’t even realize that at any moment, if her daughter doesn’t stop him, risking her own life, her mentally ill but once beloved son could strike her and strangle her… This is the same person. Take care of yourselves, friends! This is what illnesses and fear of death at the hands of a very sick son do to people! During a schizophrenic episode, the son strangles his mother, who is bedridden, and screams with an inhuman voice! Name of this young Georgian woman is Anna. Every single day, she sacrifices her life and happiness to care for her mother and brother! A head injury turned the kindest and calmest young man, who once rallied in support of President Gamsakhurdia in a crowd, into a ruthless beast! He was beaten so badly on the head that he is now severely ill with schizophrenia.

What a dreadful word “cancer” is! It sounds like death if there’s no money and no one to expect help from! In the house where we were filming the report, nobody is smiling. A silent cry for help lurks in the dark corners of the rooms! Everyone is waiting for a breakthrough and is starting to lose faith that help will come!
“Look at what the illness has turned me into! And the pain I’m experiencing is unbearable,” the unfortunate mother Salome, tells me quietly, barely holding back tears from pain, almost whispering so the children wouldn’t hear. And then, as if justifying herself, she shows me a time-worn photo where she is happy with her eldest son, Anri, and husband.