Elderly people, lonely people, people with disabilities, and families with children who do not want or are not able to evacuate to safer places are still living there. They live in constant danger, under frequent shelling, without electricity or water and in partially destroyed houses.
“Safety is not found on the shore where there are no threats, but it is in knowing who is in the boat with you,” says Vasylina Motkalyk, the cheerful, charismatic emcee at the closing of the first Recovery International Retreat for soldiers and their families. The retreat began and ended with these words. And also many words of sincere gratitude were spoken by each person and for each guest and member of the team.