World Adoption Day: Okanagan woman recalls being called mom by adopted child
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"I think it's a miracle how I took her right before (the war) started and now she has an amazing life. A lot of kids died over there ... her grandparents sit in a bomb shelter."
When Kelowna resident Irina Meyer went to live in Ukraine in 2018 for two years, she never imagined she’d be coming home with an adopted child.
“I think it’s a miracle,” Meyer told Global News.
A miracle, in part, because of how the story unfolded, which Meyer is sharing on World Adoption Day.
It all started when Meyer, who is of Ukrainian descent, saw a Facebook post about one of her former school teachers in Ukraine.
The post described how the teacher found herself in a difficult predicament — thrust into parenthood at an older age after losing her son and daughter-in-law.
“It was not a very easy situation,” Meyer said of the situation her former teacher was unexpectedly in.
Touched by the difficult circumstances for both the little girl and her grandma, Meyer began offering help from this side of the world.
“We just offered a little help with a little renovation over there,” Meyer said. “We bought them, I think, a washer and dryer, and some little computer for her.”
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