‘We have nothing’: Ukrainian family adjusts to new life in B.C.
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Myrochuk’s biggest desire is to one day go back to Ukraine, visiting different parts of the country to help children and their families struggling with the after-effects of war.
A Ukrainian mother and her daughter, forced to flee because of the Russian invasion, are adjusting to a new way of life in Canada and the transition hasn’t been easy.
Olga and Liubov Myrochuk left their home in the city of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, after a neighbour called to say the war was starting.
The pair crossed the border to Poland, and with the help of a friend, finally found a place to live in Abbotsford, B.C.
“We need to start our life from scratch because we have nothing,” Olga Myrochuk said in an interview outside her temporary home in Abbotsford.
“We come here with just a suitcase because we had no time to plan our journey, our trip to Canada.”
Now, Myrochuk is living in a townhouse complex with many other Ukrainian families.
She said the group of Ukrainians usually has bible study once a week, where they sit and pray for those back home.
It’s nice to feel a sense of normalcy with other families who speak the same language, she added. They share their struggles about immigrating to Canada, sometimes speaking through a WhatsApp messenger, and occasionally get together to host a traditional Ukrainian picnic.
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