The first thing Saba does when he wakes up is turn on the light and look at his hands. “Today,” he says, flashing a charming smile to avoid upsetting both me, the reporter, and his beloved mother, “I was very lucky; I woke up with my sight. Thirty percent – that’s how much vision I have in one eye. I can see my hands, which means there isn’t a happier boy in the whole world! I wash up and snuggle up to my mom! What a beautiful face she has! And such warm, loving hands!” But now… God is great! We’ve found a doctor in Turkey who guarantees a corneal transplant for my child and the restoration of most of his vision for $15,000! Can you imagine? Saba will be able to see again! He is such a smart boy! And his smile is incredible! The whole country will love him! And he will be able to repay his country with his service, no matter who he becomes, for he is an extraordinary person!

For 18 years, a mother has been feeding her sick son with her own hands. Luka has been intellectually disabled since birth, and he cannot talk – he only makes some sounds. As if the suffering from the illness of one child wasn’t enough, fate dealt another cruel blow to this unfortunate mother – her 5-year-old daughter, Mariam, was diagnosed with an intellectual disability too. Mariam also struggles to talk. This mother, deprived by life, does not have the money to take her children to a doctor. The mother suffers, the children suffer.

The hands of the Lord won’t let Mirian depart our world completely: he wavers between life and death, as his sorrowful mother sheds tears. What anguish! Yet, none of the doctors in Georgia, unfortunately, can answer the main question, a dilemma increasingly faced in the foundation’s practice: to live or leave this world for the child? Why did the kidneys fail in this once-beautiful, perfectly healthy boy? Right now, the little one is on dialysis. It’s such an expensive, complex, and painful procedure, which temporarily sustains Mirian’s life! But who can say how many days or months this “temporary” will last? Certainly not in Georgia! Mirian’s mother knows only one thing: if dialysis isn’t done every day, his kidneys will fail, and Mirian will die.

“I’m not afraid to open the wardrobe anymore, there are no mice in there,” says Mariam. “In the old wardrobe, they used to live and squeak annoyingly, and we had to put mouse repellent to get rid of them. But in the new one, see, there are only our beautiful clothes—new jeans, blouses, overalls…” “And I’m not afraid to sleep anymore,” says her sister Anano. “The new bed won’t turn into a horror attraction at night. Its legs don’t break, and it doesn’t collapse.” Poor girls! The Barbakadze family endured a lot of hunger and poverty before turning to the Chernovetskyi Fund for help. Friends, if any of you can give the girls a summer vacation, it would mean the world to them. Mariam and Anano have never had a holiday and are spending this summer in the sweltering city. Maybe it’s possible?! They dream of it so much, even when there’s no food in the house. The farther the dream, the more desired it is.

My family and I never lose hope that my little brother will recover, says Likuna, the sister of 7-year-old Omari, who has brain atrophy, a rare genetic disease. Thank you for believing in this too and for helping us.We want Omariko’s body not to reject food, so that my brother can gain weight, so that he does not have bedsores, so that he can breathe freely. And the stander you gave us helps with that. Omariko gives us a signal with his eyes when he wants to stand, and we put him in the stander. I wish for all sick children to be able to stand on their feet.The family and friends of the Chernovetskyi Fund are doing everything they can to make the illness retreat.

Little Ioseb’s bones break from the seizures! If we don’t help now, his suffering will make his entire family the most miserable in the world!
​Poor Ioseb experiences terrible pain from an epileptic seizure. One year ago, the convulsions twisted his muscles so much that his leg broke from the tension… can you imagine how he suffers and what pain the little one has to endure! Not every adult could endure it! ! His muscles tense as if they want to break all the bones. But the most terrible pain is the pain of a loving mother witnessing her son’s suffering! It’s painful for both Ioseb and his mother. Watching this is the ultimate punishment on earth! Poor little one, he suffers so much.