This is Saba, a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. He struggles to walk and crawls on his knees. Despite everything, he’s a very smart and emotional child. But fate wasn’t satisfied with just one cruel illness for this poor boy. Saba also has an open heart valve and strabismus. Kind-hearted people, now every hour counts. The child urgently needs massage therapy because his muscles are weakening by the day, and soon, once he falls to his knees, he might never be able to get up again. This means that Saba could be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. And he’s such a bright, clever boy… He will suffer, bedridden. Please, let’s not abandon this poor boy, left by his father. Any donation you can make, no matter how small, will make a big difference. Saba knows that a kind stranger will share his story with good-hearted people. This clever boy is full of hope.  Let’s not disappoint him. He’s already been let down once, and the wound from that heartbreak hasn’t healed yet.

This is 15-year-old Iosif. As a result of the doctors’ negligence, the child received a birth injury. As usual, no one was held accountable for the crippled life! And the boy who could now play football with our children, enjoy health and youth, oh horror, was completely paralyzed. For 15 years now, Iosif has been unable to walk, unable to speak, and suffers from epileptic seizures. Before the child underwent surgery to rehabilitate his joints, he could still move his legs with difficulty. After the surgery, the boy’s condition worsened, and his epileptic seizures increased. Look at the child’s hand, look at the inscription on his bracelet – “Give Life”. Joseph extended his tiny hand to the foundation’s correspondent and begged for help with his eyes. His heart seemed to sense that an unknown aunt had come to his hospital room to say to all of Georgia: “Give Iosif life”.

For five months, Georgian doctors have been unable to diagnose this unfortunate boy. Giorgi’s time is running out! Five months ago, a completely healthy boy suddenly fell ill, and since then, the sound of death’s footsteps has grown louder and louder in the Ochkhorashvili family. The child is suffocating. He coughs so loudly it seems like his lungs are torn. He has stopped talking and makes sounds as if someone has cut his vocal cords. He can only get food and water through the tube, but he vomits it back out. The oxygen machine is the only thing keeping him alive. But for how long??? The boy’s life timer is on. Turn on the video and you will hear the sounds of death! Father Giorgi and Nikoloz and Gogi’s mother are begging for help to raise money for the trip to Germany for an examination! We will announce the cost of the surgery once we receive the papers! Lord, help! Since there are already very few of us left in Georgia….

Ketevan (Saba’s Mom): “Comfort me, reassure me! Tell me that children don’t die from crying all the time, do they?” Help me! I don’t know what is happening to my son! He cries all day long… then he gets tired and falls asleep. And then it starts all over again. And immediately bombards me with a barrage of questions: “Do you know if people can die from crying too much? Can children die from tears? And is it not dangerous if you don’t eat and cry all the time? Tell me, tell me, please!”

And I realize that without having a doctor’s diagnosis and the funds for a proper examination abroad, she is not asking me a question. She’s just clinging to any shred of hope like a drowning person, desperately seeking reassurance from me, just something comforting. Yet, quietly, I turn away, trying not to break down, not wanting to provoke more distress in a family where tears already flow continuously!