Care for 20 homeless people in Tbilisi, Georgia

In December we received the money for the New Year celebration kindly donated by the donors on GlobalGiving and we started our preparations with great joy. However soon we received very sad news. Those of you with long memories may remember Luka, a boy with 5 siblings, whose father died. Luka’s mother was sick and unable to work, his elder sister and brother were studying well and they couldn’t afford to work, since they had a lot of study. Luka was fast at doing his homework and had more free time, so he decided to get a little money from the street and help out his mother. This is how our assistant Jemal met him and brought him to Mkurnali. Since that time Luka has never worked on the streets again.  

Luka is 14 years old now and it turned out that he is now struggling with one of the deadliest types of cancer. When this news was broken to Mkurnali’s residents, our young people refused to celebrate New Year and instead decided to buy and share essential food products between the present and former families that Mkurnali has helped, including Luka’s family. Amongst our beneficiaries were Marina’s family (4 children, between 6 and 12 years old and 5 adults), Christina and Arthur’s family (4 children, 4-6 years old and two adults with learning disabilities) and other families. The children were keen to help us buy food and joined us on a few shopping trips.  

For us it was our way to express our sympathy to Luka and make little kids from other families happy. Thank you to every one of you for supporting us.