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Low-income families
In our beloved Georgia, many people are not just below the poverty line – They are in tremendous need! And the worst part is – they have no one to rely on except for us. If we don’t help, some will become lifelong incurable cripples, others will die, and still others will perish from unbearable suffering! Schoolchildren won’t attend school – they have nothing to put on! They lack basic gadgets! They’re alone – like in a wild desert – alone with sorrow and suffering! Social allowance in Georgia are lower than in many African countries! The country is emptying: no jobs, no future… Without us, friends! And we just have to give them a chance at life, to give them pride in the country, in its good people, who for thousands of years have historically helped all who have come to us!
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By helping the poor, the sick and the unfortunate, you lend a helping hand not to them – but TO THE SON OF GOD! “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me… Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:35-36, 40)
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Ill children
The Lord gives us a chance, friends, to give the most precious gift in the world to Nikoloz: to give him life! The little one has cancer. Three years ago, his stomach started aching, and his mom thought he had eaten too many chips, but the pain only became stronger! “And the doctors gave an almost fatal ‘verdict’ – KIDNEY CANCER!” Nikoloz (7-year-old): Yes, Auntie, I have cancer. They took me to hospital and did not let me out from there. They told me: ‘If we let you go, you will die’ – and I got scared! Very scared! Then they urgently ‘flew’ me to Germany, took X-rays, then cut my stomach open and found cancer there. I don’t know what it is, what it looks like – but I know it’s scary! They removed my kidney. Then I came back home, but I felt bad again and we had to go to Germany again, and they removed my spleen and something else. Then they gave me a lot of medicines, did some radiation, transfusions, and chemotherapy to shrink and stop the cancer. I felt better. I won’t die,
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Large families
Thank you countless times for deploying large-scale help! Thanks to more than two thousands of your active responses to this story, much has been accomplished for the Kantelashvili family. The support has been amazing! Thank you very much, friends, from the whole team of the Chernovetskyi Fund! Among the unresolved issues is the fact that the family does not have a bathroom. Also they do not have a heater for winter. None of us wants Alexi to go back to scrap collecting. We can avoid this by continuing to help the family. Join the ranks of the project’s regular helpers! And if you’re feeling down about household problems or unresolved issues, take a second to look at our Facebook posts. Or better yet, call any of our beneficiaries and all your problems will seem unimportant compared to the problems of the person you came to help in the most difficult moment of his life.
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If you want to curse a man, just tell him: “I wish your children were sick. And that’s it – he’ll be the most miserable person on the planet. “I don’t know how I find the strength to live, how I manage not to go crazy.” I think God gives strength to mothers who have sick children. I have two sons and both are sick. Gabriel, 5, and Lasha-Giorgi, 18-month-old. Gabriel has cerebral palsy – he can’t move or do anything on his own. Every month we lie in the hospital or in a rehabilitation center, and Lasha-Giorgi, a martyr, has been in an intensive care unit since birth, hooked up to machines. I haven’t even taken him in my arms, haven’t hugged him. He probably thinks he doesn’t have a mother.”
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Every evening Merab begs his mom to give him medicine. He can’t explain what hurts him and says there’s a fire in his legs. His mom has been suffering with him for 14 years, carrying him in her arms. Sometimes he has such strong spasms that his mom fears he might break all his bones while sitting in his wheelchair. Madonna: Merab was born prematurely, weighing less than two kilograms. They placed him in an incubator and assured me that everything would be fine. But for some reason, I felt that nothing good awaited us. Until he turned one, he cried so much, never stopped! Even the doctors couldn’t understand what was wrong, what was bothering him. Then he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Here they told us that surgery would help, while in Turkey they said that surgery would only worsen the situation, that cerebral palsy is incurable. So I resigned myself…
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“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.
Six-year-old Sophia and her three-year-old brother Andria often have these tummy sounds. Their daddy is sick, very sick. He almost died five years ago. We will tell you about that later. We will tell you about how one accident can turn the happy, carefree life of any family into hell. No, we are not scaring you. We are trying to wake you up.
The fact that children have the right to receive healthy food is rather an exception to the rule in Georgia. This is not a typo, but a sad reality. There are a lot of families in Georgia where children do not eat normally – they do not eat at all. They eat from time to time, while mom saves a meager allowance. This post, like most of our posts, will be about hunger… We will repeat it again: children should not grow up in such poverty! They shouldn’t be hungry!
Ill adults
Let me introduce them to you, friends! This is how it happens in life … This is what happened to the cheerful Georgian beauty two years ago! God’s ways are past finding out, friends! Tears and bitter crying came instead of laughter and fun. She used to spin around like a top, but now she cannot even stand up on her own, drink water or cover herself with a blanket.
“Beka is strange, he is not like us, he cannot talk, but he loves to play with us! And I understand him! I love him. But when he cries or gets angry, I’m afraid of him … Only mommy can approach him then! – 5-year-old Luka, Beka’s serious younger brother, tells me. – You know, ma’am, I always understand what he wants! Right now, he wants a “police car””.
New Year is a time of miracles, but not for little Nikoloz and his seriously ill mother. “Dear Santa, I don’t need toys, I just want my mommy to not hurt anymore, I know you are a real magician, I beg you, give her health …” – that’s what 9-year-old boy Nikoloz writes to Santa, because toy cars with large, beautiful wheels are not at all his dream on New Year’s holiday. His young mother, Aliona, does not wear heels and dresses, her outfit is large and heavy metal structures. The days and nights of Nikoloz are filled with the tears of his mother, crying from unbearable pain.
Older people living alone
Victor is in bed all days long, he is dully looking into the distance, and it is hard for him even to say a word: