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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.
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Ill children
A mere sip of water could prove fatal for two-year-old Gabriel. His soft palate didn’t develop properly, and he can’t cry due to a congenital heart defect. For the past two years, he’s been living on the edge. No one knows when or why this ticking time bomb will go off. He can’t be left unattended for even a moment! He might choke on his own tears while crying or even lose consciousness. God, please spare any mother from experiencing such a trial.
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‘Lord, if I can’t be healed, then take me, because I can’t bear so much suffering anymore!’ These words are sincerely spoken from the depths of 17-year-old Luka’s heart as he kneels before the icon.” Since birth, Luka’s right leg has been 13 centimeters shorter than his left! As he grew older, the deformity in his leg caused unbearable pain, making life almost impossible! At times, he even dreams of death. ‘Doctors warned that without surgery soon, I won’t be able to leave my bed for the rest of my days.’
‘If my parents had the means for the surgery, my life would’ve taken a different turn. My childhood dream was to serve my homeland. But because of my disability, that dream will remain unfulfilled.'” “Today I feel like a useless person. My leg hurts so much that I want to die. I can only walk 2 meters on my own! What kind of soldier am I gonna be?”
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Due to the curvature of her ankles, Mariam experiences terrible pain. Every day, the child cries bitter tears. Little Mariam needs urgent surgery on her legs. If the surgery is not done in time, the child will never be able to stand on her feet. Mariam has had a deformity of the ankles since birth, in such a complex form that her mother can’t even put shoes on her child. Little Mariam has been suffering from pain for 3 years already. The child walks with difficulty. After taking a few steps, she collapses and cries loudly. The little angel is in pain, In unbearable pain. Tears of sorrow flow from the child’s eyes. In such moments, fathers of girls are especially affectionate, but not with Mariam! This scoundrel abandoned her immediately after her birth and threw her mother out on the street with a sick child in her arms!
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Instead of bringing the joyful news of her son’s birth to the young mother Eliso, they said: ‘Oh, mother, how unlucky you are! You gave birth to a sick boy. Leave him. Turn him over to the research institute. He will only bring you suffering. He won’t live anyway…’ It was from these words that the beautiful and carefree life of the woman began to crumble. And for 25 years now, her soul has been consumed by pain and endless sorrow. Eliso: ‘Leave him here, in the research institute,’ they advised, hoping to use my little son for their experiments. But I couldn’t allow my son to be turned into a guinea pig. Since then, I’ve sold the house, taken on debt, and gone everywhere with the child in search of a cure! I refused to listen to those doctors who said that Giorgi was hopeless. But when the doctors had exhausted all our resources, they told us that cerebral palsy was incurable! That was the doctors’ verdict! Now he is 25, and he has not uttered a single word. He can’t even say where
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“I’m not afraid to open the wardrobe anymore, there are no mice in there,” says Mariam. “In the old wardrobe, they used to live and squeak annoyingly, and we had to put mouse repellent to get rid of them. But in the new one, see, there are only our beautiful clothes—new jeans, blouses, overalls…” “And I’m not afraid to sleep anymore,” says her sister Anano. “The new bed won’t turn into a horror attraction at night. Its legs don’t break, and it doesn’t collapse.” Poor girls! The Barbakadze family endured a lot of hunger and poverty before turning to the Chernovetskyi Fund for help. Friends, if any of you can give the girls a summer vacation, it would mean the world to them. Mariam and Anano have never had a holiday and are spending this summer in the sweltering city. Maybe it’s possible?! They dream of it so much, even when there’s no food in the house. The farther the dream, the more desired it is.
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already one year, he struggling with death. He is in the intensive care unit of the clinic, is attached to a respirator, does not see, does not hear
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Low-income families
Vaziani. People move here when everything goes too bad and you need some place to live, when you need to have just a roof over head. Zhanna and her two little daughters found themselves here, on the edge of life. Luck of love brought her here.
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Older people living alone
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
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“Do you really need her like this?” people kept asking her mother. “She will die soon! Look, those parents left such a child in an orphanage and now they will live happily. You can’t imagine the burden of raising a sick child, especially when you already have a healthy daughter. Imagine how hard it will be for her. How embarrassed she will feel of having such a sister.” Instead of encouraging the young mother, it seemed like everyone had conspired and wanted her to leave the child like a piece of meat.
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The feet of the unfortunate and kind-hearted Mariam have never touched the ground… Over the course of 20 years, her spine has curved to such an extent that her chest meets her knees. She has sores on her feet that bleed, it’s hard for her to breathe, every movement is challenging for her, but she is a person who knows how to struggle even in such dire conditions…. Decades have passed, but the curved spine and the wheelchair haven’t become symbols of her life. She herself has become a symbol of unwavering determination, a symbol of willpower that inspires everyone around her to fight for their dreams, even when circumstances seem incredibly challenging.
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Parents have peace of mind: the children will not go hungry! Thank you to everyone who lent a helping hand to the Ozashvili family. The house where the Ozashvili family used to temporarily live was like a waking nightmare. Everything creaked and cracked, and mice scurried underfoot. In a completely empty house with bare walls three people were crying at once: mom Lia and two little children – Anna-Maria and Lazare. There was no table, nor what to put on the table. Anna-Maria kept repeating: “Bread, mom, bread…” Our immense gratitude to the Chernovetskyi Fund’s friends! You gave the young family everything possible: food, household appliances, furniture.
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