Sasha and Nikita came to Bucharest on their own, as they are a couple. Sasha is 17 years old, while Nikita is 16 years old and they are both Ukrainian. When I talked to them, they were living in Bucharest, volunteering to play with Ukrainian reffugee children at the Child Friendly Space opened by Terre des hommes at the train station.
Nikita has been doing sports (judo) for the past 10 years, he is considering doing it professionally, teaching children, for example. Sasha finished school as she is one year older (school ends in Ukraine after 11 clases). She would have liked to find a job cooking, as she has some experience in a restaurant in Odessa. She would like her family to come here too, as her parents and young brother stayed in Odessa. They both said they enjoy playing with the children in CFS, helping them, talking to them about everything.
”My name is Sasha, I am 17 years old, I came here from Odessa, two weeks after the war started in Ukraine. When we heard in the news that war had started, we had not believed it. But when we saw it, we panicked. The first days we were afraid to sleep, then we got used to it and fear was not so strong. But from a living city, where people relax, walk and work, Odessa had become an empty city, with no one on the street and it was forbidden to go outside. I wanted to leave for this very reason, because in my opinion at my age you need to live your life, not sit at home without any opportunity to study, work, walk...
I am very glad that we ended up here in Romania, in Bucharest, we met Daniela who helped us. She gave us shelter, food and more. Now we need to find a job and a way to earn money. In the end I can say that you don`t need to worry that it will be worse in a foreign city, or country, because living in the war is much worse and scary. One must not postpone any plan for later, because at any moment possibilities may end. You need to live and do things now, not later.”
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