Hi there!
Yuri and Alina arrived in Warsaw on 18th May.
They come from Mariupol. They have two children: Zhenya (6 years old) and Maxim (4 months). Maxim was born in Mariupol on 17th February.
Yuri and Alina had a house in Mariupol, and Yuri was renovating it. While waiting for the end of the work, they rented an apartment.
Yuri is a bricklayer and renovates flats. He had come to work for two months to Poland (in December and January) to finance the work on their house, a nursery for the baby, whose arrival was scheduled for the end of February. Yuri had just finished the baby's room when the war started.
Maxim was born in Mariupol on 17th February . Alina returned from the maternity ward with him on February 20th. Maxim spent 4 days in his new room. On February 24th, the whole family had to hide in the basement of their building, with the first shots, then bombardments. The cellar was very damp and cold, so they took refuge in the post office, with 80 other people. The cellar was not fireproof (basically, it was not a bunker). It was also very cold, but the cellar was divided into smaller rooms and the heat was retained a little better, and above all it was less humid. To keep warm, they cut wood outside. To get some electricity, they used a car battery. Of course, there was no running water. The family spent 25 days underground, with a newborn baby. Outside temperatures reached -10.
Maxim's natural breastfeeding stopped, because Alina had no more milk, due to stress and sudden deprivation. They found powdered milk in an abandoned pharmacy. Yuri heated the bottle water with a candle in the cellar (45 minutes per bottle).
The shelling intensified, everyone felt they had to leave. The family walked for two days to leave besieged Mariupol. 30 kilometers with a newborn, a 6-year-old child, between bombs. They are in the street with what people offered, and the food brought by the Ukrainian army in the stores, left at the disposal of the civilians. After two days of walking, they finally reached Yuri's mother's house, spared from the shelling. This walk, in normal times and without children, would have taken them 5 hours.
When civilians from Mariupol finally had the opportunity to be evacuated, the family tried to leave for Zaporozhye. Twice they were refused departure. They were finally evacuated via Russia (two days by bus with only one stop for a quick meal), then Latvia and Lithuania.
Yuri immediately found an apartment in Warsaw that he rents for his family with his last savings (in concrete terms, enough to last until 10th June). He REFUSED the free homestay assistance, REFUSED the money I was offering. He accepted clothes, toys, etc. for his wife and children but REFUSED EVERYTHING for himself.
He lost EVERYTHING: his house, his apartment, his tools, his car, but he SAVED his family.
He got to work right away, he has dozens of job offers to renovate apartments, but is very limited because he no longer has a car and no tools. He can only accept small renovations. He was also offered work in a company, but the salaries would not support the whole family.
Yuri says he will save penny by penny for a car and tools. But with his family to support and the rent to pay, it will take him years!
So I opened this collection to:
buy a used car for Yuri so that he can go to work with his customers quickly, and travel for the purchase of materials etc…20000 pln
buy tools for Yuri - 10000 pln
help pay the rent for a time (if the collection exceeds the desired amount)
Help this Ukrainian family who has lived through the horror, and yet remains dignified and refuses to be a burden on society! Let's help raise the funds to get Yuri and his family back on their feet as quickly as possible!
I have just talked to Alina, and she said we can close the donations account :) Yuri works all the time now and the family is on its way to normal life. Thanks again for your huge help here, as well as showing another side of humanity as they have experienced few months ago.
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