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Natalia Onishnyk

“The roof of our house collapsed on us…”

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In the first days of the full-scale invasion, Natalia Onishnik and her son did not leave Mariupol. The reason was she could not leave her mother, as well as her brother and sister, who have had a disability since childhood. It was almost impossible to evacuate the children with cerebral palsy under shelling, and especially because they did not have their own car. So Natalia together with her son, mother, sister, and brother tried to survive under continuous shelling.

Once the shelling hit their house. The roof just fell on them. Miraculously, everyone survived. Natalia pulled out her sister and her bedridden brother from under the rubble by herself. Volunteers evacuated the family then. The family settled in Dnipro. Without even hoping for it, they received a dwelling in the city’s social hostel, which opened on the basis of the IAmMariupol centre...

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Mariupol 2022 2023 Video Civilian's stories women moving destroyed or damaged housing psychological injury shelling safety and life support housing people with disabilities single parent families families with two or more children children internally displaced persons shelling of Mariupol
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