Donate to Secure a Home for Katya and Yulia

Hello, dear friend!

My name is Kate Morozova, and on June 8th, I will run a half marathon on Bainbridge Island near Seattle.

Not for sport. I’m running to support a Ukrainian family — two sisters whose lives were forever changed by a Russian missile strike.

In April 2022, the train station in Kramatorsk, where women and children were waiting to evacuate, was hit by two Russian “Tochka-U” rockets.

The girls’ mother, Marina, was killed instantly.

Her elder daughter Katya, then 12 years old, suffered severe shrapnel wounds and a complex knee fracture.

She was saved by a stranger who shielded her with his own body — he later died in the hospital.

Since then, Katya Iorgu and her younger sister Yulia Iorgu (9 years old at the time) have been living under the care of their aunt Olga Lyalko and elderly grandmother Nina, who is gradually losing her eyesight. Nina’s home is also located in an active war zone, making it impossible for them to live there. They no longer have a place of their own to return to after the war — the apartment where they once lived with their mother was destroyed by another Russian missile strike in March 2025.

Katya lives with a disability and receives treatment at the children's hospital Ohmatdyt in Kyiv.

The hospital is helping with rehabilitation. Volunteers are continuously working to raise funds for rent.

But no one has the strength — or the means — to continue renting housing for the family.

Yulia is still attending school, but she doesn’t even have a space of her own to study or rest. The family has lost nearly everything — their homeland, their closest loved one, their home, and the hope of ever returning to it.

I’m running to raise money for a small house near Kyiv — a place where Yulia can study in peace, and Katya can continue her recovery and prepare for college.

Our goal is $10,000-12,500 — enough to purchase a modest but permanent home.

The fundraiser is managed by a kind and trusted Ukrainian woman, Tanya Zayka, known by many for her tireless work supporting Ukraine.

Thanks to Tanya, we also have the opportunity to double the collected amount through the support of benefactors who work directly with her.

All collected and doubled funds will be transferred directly to a Ukrainian bank account in Kyiv to complete the legal purchase of a home for the affected family.

Why am I doing this?

Because for over three years now, this war has forced me to live a frozen life, waiting for some kind of good news.

I can’t wait anymore. Let’s start making small — but truly good — news ourselves.

If you’re reading this, you’re already close.

Donate any amount if you can. Share if you feel moved.

Help us give these girls and their family a new beginning — with even just a little peace, a roof over their heads, and hope.

And I will run — for both of us.

With love,

Kate