I have always dreamed of becoming a military man, of defending the Motherland! God gave me this opportunity! But today the machine gun falls out of my hands! Bring me back to life! I must be on my feet and with my loving family! Only the thoughts of surgery in Turkey and a complete cure keep me in this world! And my wife Sofiko and my beautiful daughter give me strength to fight and live until the trip to Turkey. But when there’s no money for medication, I start having seizures, and I beg God to relieve me from this torment and take me to Himself! Forgive me for my weakness! But without medication while awaiting surgery, I feel nothing but excruciating pain!

His psychopathic father forced his severely ill son to beg on the streets. With the money Giorgi collected, the father would get drunk and then beat his son with an iron rod. This is our new problem, friends! A very serious case! 21-year-old Giorgi was born with Down syndrome. He cannot walk or talk and has the mental capacity of a three-year-old child. Giorgi lives in a damp basement infested with rats. His bed is so uncomfortable that even a stray dog wouldn’t sleep on it. Rusty wires sticking out from the bed cause Giorgi pain, and when he sleeps, rainwater drips from the ceiling.

Anna (mom): And now I have two seriously ill children in my arms and a life full of suffering! Because I feel everything that my children feel! Every mother in the world has such a connection with their children. “Poor Nikoloz was oprated on his legs three times. And according to the doctors, he won’t survive a fourth surgery! They advise against it… But who knows? Maybe the friends of the Fund have surgeons who will give another advice?”. For 31-year-old Anna, every day begins with a battle. Her hands tirelessly toil, she does everything with love and utmost effort! But in the silence of the night, when her children fall asleep and the world stands still, her soul trembles with pain. “If it weren’t for my husband, I would have collapsed myself. The children especially need affection – they constantly ask us to pick them up. And my husband has a severely diseased heart – he needs treatment too! I won’t survive alone! He’s such a kind person, he worries so much about the children.”

Friends of the Fund, today we are so happy, and we want to share this happiness with you. Four-year-old Mate, who couldn’t stand on his feet and whose mother couldn’t afford the surgery due to poverty, is now walking. How did this happen? It’s all thanks to your immense kindness, dear people. Over 13,000 lari was raised for the child’s surgery abroad. Mate Markoidze was reborn thanks to you, faithful friends of the Fund.

Lord, give Beka a chance to recover! The suffering angel Beka can still be healed and have his life prolonged!” Tamar (mother): ‘One wrong move turned my son into a disabled child. Doctors in Batumi cannot help and say we urgently need to go to Tbilisi! Lord, protect all mothers from such a fate! – How did it all happen?! Tamara: I was in the last month of pregnancy and all my thoughts were with the child, who was about to come into this world. Following the doctor’s advice, I was walking around the yard when suddenly a rooster attacked me. Startled, I reflexively tried to move away quickly, protecting the belly of the one I already loved more than life itself! And… I fell onto my abdomen!

This is fourteen-year-old Saba. Confined to a wheelchair, he suffers from terrible pain. Saba has had cerebral palsy since birth and cannot walk. His legs are so severely twisted that he can’t stand on them for even a second. What did this little angel do to deserve such torment? Saba is cut off from the world. Yes, the child is cut off from the world… Oh, how awful those words sound. You live in this world, but you are rejected by it. Just imagining it makes one’s blood run cold.