We thank you, Lord, for guiding us to this family, for allowing us to meet your angels in time! It is frightening to imagine what could have happened if we hadn’t arrived in their lives. We would have heard from the news that a large Georgian family was found under the rubble of their own home! Oh, dear! Or they would have died of hunger… The family could have disappeared from the face of the earth, and it wouldn’t have pricked the conscience of those responsible for them at all.

Ten-year-old Venera has no friends. She is sure that she will never have them. Nobody wants to be friends with beggars. “I feel like I’m being avoided. They don’t sit next to me, they don’t want to play with me. They don’t say anything, but they behave in such a way that it hurts here,” – Venera says and puts her hand to her heart.

The gray walls covered with mold got rotten from dampness… Sometimes it seems like that dampness is caused by tears. Because everyone here cries – of pain, hopelessness, helplessness…

“Do you know what hurts the most? When they point a finger at you and laugh, mock you … not even behind your back, they tell you to your face the hurtful words, they call you the janitor’s daughter, a beggar, dirty… Like it’s a shame if a man works as a janitor. My mom sweeps the streets and I don’t think it’s an unworthy job! And when I grow up, even if I become a big, big boss, in spite of bad people, I will take a broom and help her! ” – the saddest brown eyes in the world look at me – two bottomless lakes of tears …
For 12 years, Irma has endured so much ridicule and humiliation from her peers, as no adult could have withstood. Ill-mannered kids keep name-calling her.

“Embracing the gravestone, I feel that I am still alive … The love of my life rests here, my dear wife Tanyusha,” – 75-year-old Jumber bursts into tears. “She left and took away everything – my health, my heart, my soul. I became blind. Why do I need eyes if I would never see her again?”
He buried everyone he once loved: his parents, brothers, sisters, and even some of his nephews. This is scary. But the loss of his beloved wife was a blow that he could not bear.