Valentyna is from Mariupol. Like most of the city’s residents, she remembers terrible things that will remain in her memory forever. The car in which the family was leaving Mariupol was shot at. She and her daughter-in-law had holes in their clothes. Fortunately, there were no injuries.

Then there was the difficult road to Zaporizhzhia, on which strangers helped in any way they could. Someone provided shelter, someone shared food.

And at the end of December 2024, a happy event happened in Valentyna’s life - she got her own room in the dormitory.