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Olena Arkhypova

Olena Arkhypova

37 y. o.
Svitlovodsk , Ukraine

The house is completely destroyed, there is nowhere to return. We are renting an old apartment because we evacuated together with our animals.

We are immigrants from the Luhansk region, the city of Rubizhne, which is currently under occupation. In the morning it began...explosions, panic, tears, packing suitcases, and we were already running to the bus with our grandmother and my teenage son. . We went to the house together with the owner and his family, at first everything was fine. Then we found out that our house was gone, there was a direct hit to the house. Our street was all burned down. There is nowhere to return. But this is what it is, it is better not to remember and live on. Son resumed his studies and graduated from the 9th grade. We planted a vegetable garden, I restored the old abandoned garden. We made repairs. In the summer, when the harvest ripened, we were put out the door again. To say that we were in despair is an understatement. Time passed, the church helped us find housing in the Kirovohrad region, the city of Svitlovodsk, although it was uninhabitable, but we restored it a little for living, it remained to make a place to wash, windows, doors and the floor, everything is in a terrible condition, but with animals you can’t find a better one. My son is in the first year of college , does not have decent clothes and shoes. My grandmother has hypertension, it is difficult to walk. If there is an opportunity to help, we will be very grateful. After all, helping each other brings us closer to victory.