We thank you, Lord, for guiding us to this family, for allowing us to meet your angels in time! It is frightening to imagine what could have happened if we hadn’t arrived in their lives. We would have heard from the news that a large Georgian family was found under the rubble of their own home! Oh, dear! Or they would have died of hunger… The family could have disappeared from the face of the earth, and it wouldn’t have pricked the conscience of those responsible for them at all.

Ten-year-old Venera has no friends. She is sure that she will never have them. Nobody wants to be friends with beggars. “I feel like I’m being avoided. They don’t sit next to me, they don’t want to play with me. They don’t say anything, but they behave in such a way that it hurts here,” – Venera says and puts her hand to her heart.