“You know, I almost died, that’s what my mother says! – ten-year-old Mateo complains. – Mommy bought some expensive syrup for me. It was delicious! But the bad thing is that because of me we ate only bread for three days. Maybe she should not have spent so much money on me? What do you think?”

“It’s true, sir,” – sighs 12-year-old Salome – a real beauty – hiding her serious and sad eyes. – “I cover my head with a blanket and snuggle up to mommy, but we just can’t get warm!”
Visiting this family, we found ourselves in a tiny, wretched room where poor Tinatin huddles with her two lovely daughters – one-year-old Nini and 12-year-old Salome. “Don’t take off your jackets, it’s freezing here like outside. Children constantly get sick … I am embarrassed to admit that we don’t even have a bed, my eldest daughter and I sleep on the floor,” – the unfortunate mother says with tears in her eyes, while I furtively look around this creepy room with peeling walls and a collapsed ceiling. “How can children live here?” – this question does not get out of my head.

I love him so much! – the eyes of little Giorgi (8-year-old) are getting wet of tears. I have nothing to answer. I wish the ground would swallow me facing his pure and inquisitive childish gaze. Giorgi’s brother Nikoloz (10-year-old) is seriously ill, and it’s not likely that anybody can promise Giorgi that his brother would hug him soon.

The husband, who swore before God and a priest to care for, protect, and love the orphan, shamefully abandoned her upon the birth of their third child! Why did he lie to God?! Can men behave this way?! He couldn’t withstand the trials of poverty… But poverty is not a vice! But betrayal is…! Let our readers themselves judge how to assess such actions!

“When they start chirping in six voices, like chicks asking for food, my heart bleeds. And I have only one dream – to give them food! That’s all … I dare not dream of something else … We just want to eat. ”
It is difficult to write about hungry children on holidays, when housewives in all houses cook, set tables, and there is a lot of food… Maybe not everything will be eaten, a lot of food will be thrown away … And at the same time, you are writing about a family where six children are malnourished, wear rags, and their biggest dream is to eat full. “Wouldn’t we have to starve tomorrow if we eat an extra piece of bread today?” – this is their main problem.

Or buy medicine and leave all children hungry? Suddenly, the neighbors will help! How to be