This is 84-year-old Tamila Gagua. Her life is so tragic that even the Holy Mother might shed bitter tears… The story I’m about to tell will make your blood run cold. A tragedy that will be remembered for centuries. It all began many years ago, on a snowy winter day, when a lonely, widowed old woman in the village of Chognari was visited by her only son from Kaliningrad (where he was serving in the army). Her son got married there. Grandmother Tamila welcomed her daughter-in-law as her own daughter. But the most important part is yet to come. When Grandma Tamila saw her son holding a one-year-old boy with big eyes, she immediately knew it was her grandson, and she almost lost her mind with happiness. But her joy turned out to be premature. The boy was underdeveloped, he could not walk.

“Sikoria deda,” Ketevan repeats and cries again. Then she obediently allows Matsatso to take care of her. She eats soup from a spoon and listens to the praise of how good a girl she is. Matsatso changes her diaper and takes her for a little ride in a wheelchair around the yard. And the tears keep flowing. Her right arm is immobile, and her right leg is too. Her tongue is unresponsive and sluggish. Her eyes see nothing… This is what the stroke did to Ketevan. No, this is what a state can do to a person. Look at the helpless Ketevan and be careful! This is the high price one can pay for trying to get help from the state.

The goal of our Fund is to open the hearts of the fund’s friends to the Lord! And the Lord shows us more and more new misfortunes! Thank you, Lord! Because from story to story, we increasingly become the people You intended us to be when You created mankind! Meet Maia! She is a former orphanage resident and she was sheltered by kind people for some time. Maia is 58 years old! She is lonely and deeply, deeply unhappy! And in her old age, she suddenly found herself in the position of a homeless dog! In November 2023, my room burned down in the dorm where I lived, – says Maya- you can’t imagine what it’s like to turn into a homeless dog at my age! Because the local authorities put me in a completely demolished former police station! Fate turned away from her early in her childhood when her parents left her and placed her in an orphanage. Little Maia sat by the window, waiting for her mother to come for her… waiting to be remembered.

Both in appearance and spirit, Zurab and Galina resemble gentle and innocent blind children navigating through a dense forest teeming with wild and bloodthirsty beasts! And there’s not a single strong and kind hero around to protect them! “It’s very, very hard to live when everyone wants to deceive you,” says Zurab, who endured two years of deceitful treatments from fraudulent doctors, promising to restore his sight while the nerve in his eye had long since perished. The doctors drained the last pennies from the family! Oh, if only we could find them and look into their “rotten” eyes… Some “beasts” are suing them to take away their apartment, while others are waiting for their death from hunger and cold, because then they will be able to seize the apartment completely for free! That’s why the latter have deprived them of any social protection: the elderly receive mere pennies of social assistance and are inquired…

Her story began on the day she made the decision to leave all worldly cares behind and dedicate her life to serving the Lord. It was the most challenging step in her life. Everyone was against it: her parents, children… “But when you have the Lord with you, there’s nothing to fear, even if the whole world is against you!” Sister Elene says. Listening to her is a true pleasure; her words bring peace, and her reflections on God, life, good, and evil make you contemplate many things.

Friends, meet Grandma Shushana. And the illnesses she mentioned, unfortunately, are not all from the long list of her severe diagnoses. Three years ago, her left leg was amputated entirely. – “Since then, I can barely move even around the house! My daughter, who is suffering from cancer, takes me out to the yard for a walk once a month!” She is 72 years old, the same age as the founder of our Fund, Leonid Chernovetskyi, who personally became acquainted with this dreadful story! And here’s what he said: “A mother is dying, and her daughter is dying too! And both are enduring inhuman sufferings! I want to try to convey to my followers what I personally experience due to another illness at this age… As soon as you fall ill, you feel an intense fear! Here it is, you think, the end has come! But what’s next?! Meeting with the cold earth, worms, or with God?! If with God, then did you manage to repent for all the sins you committed in your youth? Did you do everything you could according