“This photo, it is a house near our daycare,” Mariia Shvetsova said showing us a crumbled home near her four-year-old daughter Darina’s daycare.“She knew people who lived in that house, little kids, adults, grandmas, clients, just regular people,” Olenka Bravo, a Ukrainian immigrant said translating for Shvetsova.
Both Shvetsova and Kovalenko left with their young children, looking for somewhere safe away from the Russian invasion.“It’s scary to be there in the shelter rockets just fly over your head. It’s scary. So it was very sad because I lost my job, my home, my friends, my family,” Khymko said.They’re referred to as humanitarian parolees and are allowed to stay in the U.S. for two years, but starting over in a new country is difficult.
“She’s not asking for money. And the other woman, they don’t ask for money, but they are asking for the opportunity to work here,” Bravo said.aims to help by connecting them with resources for housing, jobs, and benefits. “It’s very important because like a lot of people saying that they come here and they don’t know even where to start,” Bravo said.
Wonder if they would be there for us, should we ever need. Lol