During a tank shelling, the basement of the house where the family was hiding was hit. Aliona sustained a severe thigh injury. Serhii’s father was killed, and his mother suffered a serious concussion.
“Many people and children were killed at that time, and many were injured,” recalls Serhii.
Serhii managed to evacuate his wife and several injured children to a hospital, where they received initial medical care. However, the shelling continued, and the doctors advised that his wife be moved to a safer location.
Aliona required urgent surgery. To save his wife, Serhii set out for Dnipro.
“By some miracle, we reached Zaporizhzhia, and then, after two days, Dnipro. There, my wife underwent surgery,” Serhii recounts.
As a result of her injury, Aliona was assigned a third-degree disability.
Frightened and traumatized by the events, the family decided to move further away from the shelling. Once Aliona was able to move around gradually, the family went to Rivne, where acquaintances had invited them.
After relocating, the couple rented a small private house. Serhii found a job, and their daughter resumed her studies. Aliona started working at the pension fund.
The family’s financial resources are limited, and Aliona’s ongoing treatment requires constant expenses. Therefore, the assistance they received through the project “Integrated Humanitarian Response during War and Post-War Recovery” was extremely timely and necessary. Social worker Olena Kravchuk informed the family about the project’s opportunities and assisted them in completing the application for aid, for which the family is immensely grateful.
In Ukraine, the project “Integrated Humanitarian Response during War and Post-War Recovery” is implemented with financial support from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), United Kingdom. The project, aimed at supporting communities by addressing urgent humanitarian, social, and medical needs and ensuring a dignified life in crisis conditions, is carried out by the Rivne Regional Charitable Foundation “Our Future” with technical support from Christian Aid and coordination by the International Charitable Foundation “Alliance for Public Health”.