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A young and tight-knit family. They’ve blessed Georgia with so many beautiful and healthy children, and then such a tragedy struck… Their home was destroyed by a landslide, and they found shelter wherever they could. When it rains, the whole family prays for it to stop quickly and for their beds to dry! Sleeping in a puddle is torture! And in winter, it may happen that those who slept soundly may never wake up again: they might choke or freeze to death!
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Older people living alone
“I feel neither good, nor bad. I feel nothing. My only son and husband lie motionless in the cold earth of the cemetery… and here I am within these four walls,” whispers Grandma Lamara barely audibly, wiping her dry eyes. Not a single tear has been left in 17 years – she’s cried it all out. She cries, crying from within, shrouded in darkness. She wants to die, to be near those she has lost, but death seems to avoid her, and condemns her to endless torment.
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Low-income families
Iamze (the mother of these two adorable kids!): “I’m an orphan with living parents! My children have no grandparents. My husband is in prison for the second time! He deceived me when we got married. At first, he stole, and then he turned out to be a sadist and beat me so hard in front of the children that now I’m very afraid for their mental health! And I understand: he came to me because of housing and wanted to kill me! And the children… He never loved our children! He would give them away to strangers. Such children!!! I’m not asking for anything for myself, but I won’t be able to live if my children are not saved from hunger and cold in winter! They shouldn’t repeat my terrible fate!”
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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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“Nina began to suffocate – I heard her wheezing. I did everything possible to save my daughter, to help her breathe, but nothing helped. She stopped breathing, started turning blue. Her little hands became weak, and her fingers began to freeze… Nina’s heart stopped… Oh God! I know what hell looks like!” On that day, Nina almost died… her heart stopped and while the ambulance was taking her to the hospital, her brain shut down. Subsequently, Nina lost her vision and is now on life support. For 2 years now, the little beauty has been in the palliative care unit of the hospital, and doctors cannot make a prognosis for when her mother will finally manage to embrace her disease-ridden daughter. They shrug their shoulders and say – “Pray.”
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What is it like to know that your child’s time is limited? And even if he doesn’t pass away before the age of two, he will never fully recover, and he will never be able to walk? To keep Dima alive, it takes just a little – our help! Doctors have already done their part – they have diagnosed and prescribed treatment, but sustaining the child’s life comes at a high cost for his mother. Dima has a stoma in his throat that he breathes through, requiring regular cleaning. Unfortunately, his mother can’t afford to buy new sterile tubes, so she has to reuse old ones multiple times. This poses a significant risk to Dima’s weakened immune system. “When I received my son’s diagnosis, it felt as if the ground had been ripped from beneath me. It was like being drenched in icy water! I felt so physically unwell that the doctors had to help me regain my composure. Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 – I was already aware of it… it was the most devastating news for my dear Dima.”
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Ill adults
She doesn’t want to live! When it hurts a lot, you lose hope… But then a small hand touches her, and she realizes that death will be the easiest solution for her, but the greatest suffering for her child.
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Cancer is the worst word in the world. – Nino Beselia, a serious cancer patient, begins her story!
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“My neighbor found me lying on the floor, unconscious. I was taken away by the car of the disaster center… I don’t remember anything… The operation lasted more than seven hours. They returned me from the next world… But maybe death would be better than such a life?! – Ms. Leila told us before the interview began – “It was already the second operation last year that I had. First they gutted my stomach, then they opened my skull. Now I’m like this – exhausted, gutted. I can’t even lift two kilograms.”
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She lives, or rather lives out her days, in a one-room rented apartment of an old house, where disgusting living conditions and complete poverty reign.
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Being a single mom in Georgia is a sentence! When your kids are little and you can’t leave them alone to go to work, it’s twice as hard. The meager allowance is enough for nothing, especially after the increase in food prices. “When I run out of money I literally turn into beggar: I have to ask for food either in the store, or from the neighbors,” – says mother Natia, hiding her face in her hands with shame. Every single day she asks her children to forgive her for not being able to be a good mother for them. Not for such a life, she asked the Lord to give her children!
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“I really want to have many friends, but the children do not want to play with me. Sometimes they close the door in my face. And I start to feel a tingling in my chest …” – says ten-year-old Anna-Maria, pointing with her fingers where it tingles. – “Do you know when it also tingles? When I want crunchy treats and my mom has no money to buy them. In the end, this tingling tires me out, and I start feeling sad.” Here she takes a sad pose, and then continues: “Mom said that I am special, I even call myself in a special way – Marikosha! Ma-ri-ko-sha! But I don’t want to be special anymore. I wish I had many friends, many toys, and many sweets! Just like other kids!”
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