Friends, your help has already saved hundreds of lives. And now, it’s time to extend the same support to Georgia’s Paralympic arm-wrestling champion, Valeri Gabelia. The clock is ticking, counting down the days and hours separating him from certain death—unless help arrives in time. Valeri is battling stage four cancer—Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He’s endured 25 rounds of chemotherapy, but after surgery, his condition drastically worsened. In just one month, cancer has almost consumed Valeri. At 45 years old, he now weighs only 43 kilograms.  The illness has changed him beyond recognition.

Rimma has hydrocephalus. She’s undergone four grueling brain surgeries, and the fifth one was performed in Turkey. A shunt was placed in her head—a special device that helps regulate the fluid that constantly accumulates. Her 26-year-old daughter Mariam, devastated and desperate, turned to our Fund for help. The situation is critical! They’re currently in a hospital in Turkey, but they have no money to pay the bills. Several times a day, hospital administrators come into their room demanding, “Pay up, pay up, pay up.”  One day in the hospital costs approximately 1,000 GEL. Where can a poor orphan find such money? A year ago, Mariam buried her father, who died in a car accident.

Little Nikoloz weeps, heartbroken, because his gravely ill father was sent home from the hospital simply because the family could no longer pay. Oh God, what a tragedy! Forty-nine-year-old Guram, a father of two, has been diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. His stomach is entirely filled with fluid, and the poor man can’t even move in bed, let alone stand or walk. Tears of life’s injustice fill the eyes of the man who was discharged from the clinic due to a lack of money. But he tries to hide them from his children. Ten-year-old Nikoloz and thirteen-year-old Andria stand by their father’s bedside, gently caressing him with their little hands. The poor children don’t know how to ease their father’s excruciating pain. Look at this poor man’s tears. He can no longer endure the pain, the dreadful disease, and, most of all, life’s injustice. The poor father simply cannot endure it any longer. Guram urgently needs a liver transplant; otherwise, the children… Oh God, how hard it is to say these words. Yes… Otherwise, these little angels will become orphans.

Look at these unfortunate souls, and let their grief enter your heart! The conditions in which these poor children and their parents live are a disgrace to Georgia. They have no one but us, but together we can make 2025 the best year this large Georgian family has ever known. Friends, your help has saved and continues to save dozens and hundreds of lives. Now, five small children are in danger—they live in horrific conditions! The youngest, Luka, is only a year and a half old. This large family is barely making ends meet. The parents struggle greatly to feed their little ones.  Only a social canteen saves them. 

The Janelidze family was graced with two kind and wonderful boys. Their mother, Eliza, was overjoyed beyond words. And their father, Geronti, would proudly say to everyone, “I am raising two brave sons for my homeland.” Indeed, as the years went by, the boys grew more handsome and, most importantly, were known throughout the Abasha district as well-mannered and kind-hearted brothers. Most people held this loving family in high regard. But envy is a cruel thing—there were those who begrudged the couple’s boundless love and happiness. That envy bore bitter fruit. It is heartbreaking to write these words: neither of those young men is alive today. Gangrene and liver cirrhosis, two merciless diseases, claimed their lives. Since then, every day for their devastated parents has been a living hell. Their poor mother clings to old photographs of her children, and her heart feels like it is being torn in two. No one can truly understand the fiery agony consuming her heart. Eliza’s soul aches in ways only a mother who has lost her children could comprehend. No one else…

A veteran of the Abkhazian war breaks his last piece of dry bread in half. Robert Jakhia was wounded four times in the Abkhazian war. He never feared death—he was ready to give his life for his country. Today, this forgotten hero lives in ruins. Years ago, Robert was hit by a car,  leaving him with a damaged spine that required surgery. He has also undergone two hernia surgeries. He’s deaf in his left ear and blind in his left eye due to a wartime injury.