A warmly wrapped child sits by the old creaky table, on a broken chair, in a pile of old and torn clothes, and picks up breadcrumbs with his tiny fingers, swallowing them greedily. Not a single crumb must fall down. They are worth their weight in gold! She sniffs her piece of bread, then puts it to her cheek, as if she had never tasted anything more delicious than bread. And so it is, only instant soup from the store is tastier than bread. But it is expensive – it costs 70 tetri!

“I will become the Hulk, and then let’s see how they won’t lend us toys! I will beat everyone who offends me and my brothers! I will get huge muscles,” – Malkhaz is indignant.
The neighbor children in the yard did not let him ride a bicycle again. And they did not lend a car with a remote control to his brother. He just wanted to hold it. They never break anything. And the “bad” children said: “You must have your own toys!” But 6-year-old Ramaz, 5-year-old Malkhaz, and 3-year-old Grigol not only have no toys – but they sometimes do not even have a piece of bread to eat.

The Kravchenko family lives in a nightmare! Atrophy and glaucoma took away the sight of Koba, the father of the family. Irina, his wife, lost two babies and has been grieving for them ever since. But the main pain of parents is two adult children who suffer from cerebral palsy! 20-year-old Diana has autism in addition to cerebral palsy. She can hardly walk. She was operated on her legs twice and she needs to be operated for the third time. The state of Diana’s brother – 13-year-old Igor – is even worse. He can’t walk. He entirely depends on his mom and dad.

“We woke up in smoke, it was already hard to breathe. The children were coughing, choking, screaming in fear. I pushed everyone towards the door like crazy. Our apartment was burning! One could see it even from the street. People in the yard were shouting: “The house is burning!” When we found ourselves in the street, I suddenly noticed that Basil was not there. He was upstairs in the burning room! I was on my knees asking fervently: “My God, I beg you! My son is there, please let them take him out of there! Please, please, save him!”

“Mommy, when will you come? How can you feel good when I feel so bad without you? I must tell my mother that I cry a lot every day, and then she will buy a ticket and will certainly come…” Little Luka has many questions and many plans on how to get his mother back. Doesn’t she need such a good boy? He can draw, and write, and carry firewood. What else should I do to get mom back home?

Does it really happen, friends? The tragedy of the Shainidze family began on March 21, 2021. Just one spark turned their home to ashes and their lives to living nightmare. Just one spark deprived seven-year-old Isabella, five-year-old Rezi, three-year-old Azamina and one-year-old Zura of their childhood, and took away tranquility from their parents.