Volunteers worry about housing as Ukrainian refugees in Calgary find housing in homeless shelter
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Settlement agencies and volunteers in Calgary are worried that people fleeing the war in Ukraine are going to end up in homeless shelters.
When the Kovalenko family arrived in Calgary on May 13 from Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine, they didn’t have a place to stay.
The family of five ended up at the Inn from the Cold emergency shelter for eight days.
“The decision to leave Ukraine didn’t come easy,” Yuri Kovalenko, who is a veterinarian, said through an interpreter on Thursday. “It was very hard — basically a split-second decision to take all the bags and to lock up the apartment and to leave.
“It was very hard to be in a new place with kids, and we felt very anxious.”
With the help of volunteers at St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Sobor and at Hillhurst United Church, the Kovalenkos were matched with a volunteer host in northwest Calgary.
“She hosts us as we were her own,” Yuri said “We feel very comfortable and safe.”
His wife Iullia said their main priority now is to find a place of their own, jobs and a school for the children.
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