Anna has three wonderful children. She works in Kalynivka at a local gas station. It used to be very convenient, because she had a 5-minute walk to work, and could come back home any time.

The son had a kids’ ride-on car, on which he drove around the yard. Now, playing with some remains of the house, he said, “The russians burned my house and my car.”

Their house was next to the highway, so when everything started, Anna’s ex-husband took the two younger children to his village, and in a few days, Anna and her eldest daughter decided to go to her mother in Makariv.

She said, “It’s good that we had bicycles, we sat down and rode through fields, woods, and yards.” It was difficult for my daughter, but she endured. The family quickly realized it was also dangerous in Makariv, so the husband brought the younger ones and they all went to Ternopil. At the end of March, they heard that the house was gone.

I wanted to go home and work. When the Kyiv region was liberated, Anna and her children immediately came back to Makariv to her mother. She takes care of an old woman whose house has been slightly damaged. The woman allowed the family to live with her temporarily.

All the children helped the volunteers to sort out the rubble, carrying bricks. Both Anna and the children really want to go home. No one is crying anymore, but a woman can’t rebuild by herself either.

Thanks to the contribution from OLX Ukraine, we have installed a 5-module NEST-house for the Sivach family