Tetiana will always remember Bakhmut, the town where she lived and worked before the full-scale invasion. In the years before the war, she worked as a nurse in a boarding school for children with mental and physical disabilities. But when the war broke into her life, she became a senior volunteer at the first point of resilience in Bakhmut.

In the winter of 2023, Tetiana was forced to leave her hometown. She moved to Kostiantynivka, where she became the head of a volunteer shelter. The work was hard and exhausting. She suffered a heart attack and returned to work a month later to help people who had lost their homes.

Tetiana particularly remembers the children who were brought to the shelter. One of the stories that sticks in her mind is the evacuation of a four-day-old baby together with her sisters who were left without a mother. Moments like this remind her of how important it is to give people the belief that they are needed.