Oh God, God, our gratitude to You knows no bounds! Who are we, just humble staff, to be addressing such crucial matters, often matters of life and death, with our Fund’s friends! Thank you, Father, for guiding this unfortunate Georgian family to our Fund! We will definitely show hundreds of thousands of our kind friends in Georgia the horror of the lives of sick children, an elderly woman, and a mother devastated by grief!

Damned poverty! How beautiful and tender they are! They ask for nothing… Such tiny ones, but sorrow has already settled in their eyes! Inga (mom): Every day I look into the hungry eyes of my three children. Is there anything worse than this? May the Lord protect you from such trials, kind people!!! But know that my little ones wake up every morning hungry and their tummies often hurt. Dry bread, water, and 500 grams of pasta once a day – that’s the daily ration for my three little ones. And my youngest son, 4-year-old Gio, has recently started losing consciousness and fainting from hunger. Oh, Lord!

“You know how bad it is when hunger grips your stomach! We’re always hungry, and we live very poorly. And Mom doesn’t have the money to buy us even one candy to share. We only buy bread. Bread for lunch, bread before bed…soon we’ll start looking like loaves ourselves,” little Andria giggles, not realizing there’s nothing funny about his words. And he wonders why Mom starts crying at such a funny joke…but what else can a desperate mother do when she can’t feed her children? When they ask God to turn a piece of bread into something tasty? “You can do that, right?” Andria looks naively at the sky and shows his bread to God. “Turn my bread into meat!”

“Mom, I’m hungry!” – desperate cries of little Fatima are heard. “Mum, Nedjo is having seizure again!” – Ramazan yells. Nedjo writhes on the floor. Such horrible convulsions happen to the poor child almost every day. “Mum, Mariam ran out of diapers!” – Tsiala is looking for diapers for her sister… At this moment, mom Elene covers her ears with her hands and just wants to jump out of the window and disappear, escaping from the problems that are falling from all sides! But no! She can’t do that! Although she has health problems herself, she will never do that! She is a single mother. If she’s gone, what then? What will happen to her angels then? What will happen to little Nedjo? He will completely lose his mind! What will happen to little blue-eyed Mariam, who has just learned to walk and now constantly calls for mommy… Or to Tsiala, or Ramazan, or Fatima – the smartest and most talented one? Children don’t know when their birthday is. They don’t even know what these words mean.They

One-year-old Ani is burning with a fever, and her mother doesn’t have a thermometer or any medicine to relieve her daughter’s suffering. Ani has a fever, but they can’t take her temperature and there are no medications at home. There is only one way out: to call an ambulance or wait for the neighbors to wake up and ask them for fever-reducing medication.

Natia: There are a lot of us. My husband, our six children, and I can barely fit in this tiny house. And we have nowhere else to go. When they find out that we have so many children, everyone shrugs us off – as if they see cockroaches. If I lived in another country, they would probably give me a diploma for having 10 children! It’s not easy raising kids for Georgia. No one appreciates us, no one cares. They give us an allowance and they think that’s enough. We don’t even have our own house.