WEBVTT - Made with VTT Creator 00:05.703 --> 00:14.311 position:50% align:middle My name is Moshkivska Inna, I live in Rohachi village of Ruzhyn district, a former Ruzhyn district. I work in Topory, a neighboring village, 00:14.311 --> 00:24.174 position:50% align:middle as the head of a branch of the Topory cultural center and library. The war caught me in the morning. I woke up to a phone call from my sister 00:24.174 --> 00:33.401 position:50% align:middle at probably half past five. She lives in Zhytomyr and her mother-in-law lives in Narodychi. She [said] that grandma Halia called [and told] that missiles 00:33.401 --> 00:44.604 position:50% align:middle were flying. At that time, near Zhytomyr, there were explosions near Ozerne. That's where it all started. The very first memory of these 2 years I have is when I went 00:44.604 --> 00:54.309 position:50% align:middle to work on foot because there was no petrol anymore. I couldn't go by car, I was walking across the field, planes were flying overhead, it was a little scary, 00:54.309 --> 01:05.162 position:50% align:middle incomprehensible. We did not know how to behave, what to do. We had been preparing for the holiday at the club, and there was supposed to be a concert on March 8. 01:05.162 --> 01:21.603 position:50% align:middle We had been holding rehearsals. The Toporivka lyceum and kindergarten were involved, and the children participated. I came to the kindergarten on the 23rd, 01:21.603 --> 01:32.055 position:50% align:middle because I needed several acts from the kindergarten. There was such a point that I addressed them late, "How will we manage to prepare in time?". 01:32.055 --> 01:39.283 position:50% align:middle I said: "Who knows what will happen? Haven't you seen what's happening in the country? Maybe there won't be that concert at all". And that's exactly what happened. 01:39.283 --> 01:51.586 position:50% align:middle That’s my first memory of the beginning of the war. A remote village, we are close to Vinnytsia region, we live on the border. My sister lives in Ruzhyn, 01:51.586 --> 02:02.356 position:50% align:middle and a lot of people came to her place, acquaintances, some with dogs, some with cats. There were days when she had 20 people in her house, just passing through. 02:02.356 --> 02:13.367 position:50% align:middle My work began with collecting mattresses, blankets and spoons around the village. Kateryna Mykolaivna (our volunteer) would call 02:13.367 --> 02:23.355 position:50% align:middle and say that something was needed. There were various situations when she called and say that spoons were needed. I called everyone and went to collect them. 02:23.355 --> 02:32.543 position:50% align:middle I have one question that still hurts to this day. One person asked: “Where do you get what you need?” I said that I was sleeping, then woke up and thought: 02:32.543 --> 02:38.153 position:50% align:middle I'm going to collect spoons, maybe someone needs them. There were all sorts of attitudes. Sometimes I used to go down to the basement 02:38.153 --> 02:48.792 position:50% align:middle and get the canned food myself. Later, at school (I don't know who brought the net), we gathered clothes from the village, people brought their clothes, 02:48.792 --> 02:57.915 position:50% align:middle and we were cutting [the fabric] so much that our calluses bled. We spent a couple of days weaving those nets [from what we had], and we ran out of everything. 02:57.915 --> 03:08.063 position:50% align:middle A year ago, maybe a little more, I accidentally received a text message saying that there were nets, and those from the village who wanted to weave nets could do so. 03:08.063 --> 03:21.346 position:50% align:middle We took 2 nets, 40 meters by 2 meters. My librarian and I started together. My friend from Kyiv called and asked if she could bring me humanitarian 03:21.346 --> 03:28.817 position:50% align:middle aid for the children, as they were working on it in Kyiv. She brought that humanitarian aid, we sorted some of it, and we started cutting 03:28.817 --> 03:43.513 position:50% align:middle and weaving nets out of the rest. We asked Kateryna Mykolaivna if she could help us. She helped us buy these nets, and then people started coming to me. 03:43.513 --> 03:52.438 position:50% align:middle We placed an ad asking for people to come and help. Right by the club, we hammered nails into the wall and wove those nets there. 03:52.438 --> 04:16.152 position:50% align:middle Now, I have about 10 women coming to me on average. The youngest one among them, not counting me, is 61 years old, and the oldest one is 75. 04:16.152 --> 04:25.794 position:50% align:middle We weave all the time. At first, we passed them on to Kateryna Mykolaivna, then people started contacting me directly asking for nets. 04:25.794 --> 04:34.089 position:50% align:middle We have woven more than 400 nets this year, that's for sure. Just half an hour ago, I received a call that they needed as many nets as we had. 04:34.089 --> 04:50.131 position:50% align:middle We are send them ourselves. It’s very hard in those moments when the guys call directly from there. It’s really tough when you talk to them directly, honestly. 04:50.131 --> 05:02.293 position:50% align:middle The most interesting part is when we raise money for the nets. At first Kateryna Mykolaivna helped us, then all my girls did, and I call them girls because 05:02.293 --> 05:13.950 position:50% align:middle when I call them grandmas, they get angry. Each of them knows that they need to give 200 hryvnias for nets from their pension. In the winter it so happened 05:13.950 --> 05:21.783 position:50% align:middle that we had no money, and we complained about where we would get that money. I have Tamara Ivanivna who is 75 years old. 05:21.783 --> 05:32.626 position:50% align:middle She said that she was going to call her land tenant. She called to Zoriane and said that we needed money. He told to provide him the account number 05:32.626 --> 05:40.002 position:50% align:middle and transfered us 5000 UAH. And all my girls addressed their tenants. In short, that's how we managed to raise money. Then I posted a request on the Internet, 05:40.002 --> 05:50.604 position:50% align:middle and people did send [money], but it ran out quickly. Just a month ago, a classmate called, saying they needed nets because 05:50.604 --> 06:04.797 position:50% align:middle drones were attacking mercilessly. And the net was not woven yet. I ordered a 560-square-meter net, a large one, for 16,700 UAH. I came to work, 06:04.797 --> 06:13.038 position:50% align:middle and one of my women said that she hadn't asked for money yet. She said she would go and ask for money. She went to Ruzhyn to her tenant. 06:13.038 --> 06:19.394 position:50% align:middle He called me and asked how much money I needed. I say: "Whatever you give, because I don’t demand anything from anyone". 06:19.394 --> 06:24.105 position:50% align:middle He asked me again how much money I needed for the net. I said 16,700 UAH. He asked for the bank details and transferred the money to me. 06:24.105 --> 06:30.865 position:50% align:middle [A classmate] called early in the morning on Wednesday and said he needed a net, and on Saturday he already received it. That's how we do that, 06:30.865 --> 06:41.480 position:50% align:middle that's how we raise money. At the moment, we have little money again, and we are raising it again. It’s hard, of course, especially when people die, 06:41.480 --> 06:52.538 position:50% align:middle you feel sorry for everyone, but when someone from your own village [dies], someone so dear, it’s really hard. We try to communicate with their mothers. 06:52.538 --> 07:08.280 position:50% align:middle We visit them and try to live in peace and friendship and to support them. But we’re all together, so it’s a little easier for us.