Mariya Kunchenko from Bakhmut
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Good afternoon. Today May 1, 2023, I would like to ask for help. As everyone probably knows our country is at war, this war began back in 2014. It was then that I was living in Debaltsevo in my beautiful parent’s apartment, as I was a student then and they came to «liberate» us from everything we had. At that point, we were forced to leave home. We moved to Bakhmut, which became my hometown. There I lived since 2014, where I met my love, where my son appeared, where I received an excellent education, and there was a job for me, thanks to which we were able to buy a house, arranged it, collected money, and one day it all collapsed when “rescuers” came. They “liberate” us from everything that was in our life. Thanks God for staying alive, but even when you are in a more or less safe place (although there is absolutely no safe place in Ukraine now) you wake up every morning and you are glad that you woke up, because for some people that morning did not come, and some did not wake up themselves or have not seen their close relatives. We have been living in this horror for many years and even though the war is going on all over the country, in cities with no active combat operations (we currently live in Poltava with my son) people earn as much as they can. We pay 6,500 hryvnias for rent plus utility bills. My child is one year and eight months. Work now is not possible, ’cause I’m with my child. From the state we receive aid as displaced, it is 2000 hryvnias per child 3000 hryvnia for me because I am a disabled person of the third group. The total of this amount is spent on rent, that is, money catastrophically not enough for our normal life.
I will be very grateful for your help because I have nowhere else to look for support, in these conditions is very difficult to live, but we are hanging on.