Olga Galushchak shared the story of her harrowing decision to leave Ukraine with her two children and come to Jacksonville just a week after the war started last year.
– Olga Galushchak has spent her life in Ukraine. She and her family lived in Lviv. Even after Russia invaded her country one year ago, she planned to stay with her husband and their two children, 12 and 4 years old. But that changed just a week after the war started.
“The line was huge, enormous, crazy,” she said, describing the chaotic rush to get out of the country where she was raised. The family already had two other families living with them but found Galushchak’s family shelter through another family in Jacksonville. That Jacksonville generosity from strangers continued for the next year. Another family allowed the mother and her two children to live in their home in Riverside. St. Paul’s School, Riverside, accepted 12-year-old Viktoriia immediately and her 5-year-old brother is now enrolled as well.
Seeing the images of her country devastated by rockets and fighting has been heartbreaking. She tearfully described the pain of hearing and seeing what has been happening there during the last year.
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