Help for the Grynko Family
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The Grynko Family of six needs our help! Recently arrived from the war in Ukraine, this beautiful family is eager to work and build a new, peaceful life in the US. (More about the family’s story below!)
However, work authorization documents and other needed approvals take some time. Feeding a family of six is a challenge in the first two months after arrival from a war zone. Your donation will help them bridge this initial period, until they can work. But within just a few months, the family will be able to be totally self-sufficient.
As it will be necessary for the family to get to and from work, we’d also like to raise enough money to help them purchase an inexpensive used car.
Without a car, life during the frigid Nebraska winter is tough - walking in snow to get groceries for the family and trying to arrange for rides to and from work daily, for two adults. There is no transit service in their half of the city.
***If you have a car to donate, please contact us for more information!***
More About the Family
Glyb and Nataliya Grynko we’re just starting their young family when their experience of war started. Both were professionals - Glyb an attorney working in property development and Nataliya a math teacher - living in the large eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk when the initial part of the war began in 2014, when Russian-backed rebels took over their region.
At that time, they fled, forced to leave everything behind they’d worked for - their home, furnishings, everything. Eventually they settled in the smaller city of Pokrovsk and began to build a life for their family once more.
They worked in their professional fields and grew their family to three children: daughter Vera (age 14), daughter Lada (age 9) and son Luka, age 2.
It was a happy time until February 26, 2022, when Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine in great numbers.
The family understood immediately that it was time again to flee. They didn’t want their children to experience the terror of war - bombings, constant air raid sirens, suffering and death.
They relocated to Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine, which was safer at the time. But as the war has drug on and intensified, no place in Ukraine was fully safe. By autumn of 2022, as Russian forces targeted the electrical grids and gas heating supplies, conditions became dark, cold and nearly impossible to survive.
The family faced a dreadful choice: risk freezing temperatures, lack of food and a shut down educational system due to no electricity, and the extreme dangers to their family’s survival, or leave Ukraine.
They decided to risk the huge step of coming to the US to ensure the safety and continued education of their children.
However, work authorization documents and other needed approvals take some time. Feeding a family of six is a challenge in the first two months after arrival from a war zone. Your donation will help them bridge this initial period, until they can work. But within just a few months, the family will be able to be totally self-sufficient.
As it will be necessary for the family to get to and from work, we’d also like to raise enough money to help them purchase an inexpensive used car.
Without a car, life during the frigid Nebraska winter is tough - walking in snow to get groceries for the family and trying to arrange for rides to and from work daily, for two adults. There is no transit service in their half of the city.
***If you have a car to donate, please contact us for more information!***
More About the Family
Glyb and Nataliya Grynko we’re just starting their young family when their experience of war started. Both were professionals - Glyb an attorney working in property development and Nataliya a math teacher - living in the large eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk when the initial part of the war began in 2014, when Russian-backed rebels took over their region.
At that time, they fled, forced to leave everything behind they’d worked for - their home, furnishings, everything. Eventually they settled in the smaller city of Pokrovsk and began to build a life for their family once more.
They worked in their professional fields and grew their family to three children: daughter Vera (age 14), daughter Lada (age 9) and son Luka, age 2.
It was a happy time until February 26, 2022, when Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine in great numbers.
The family understood immediately that it was time again to flee. They didn’t want their children to experience the terror of war - bombings, constant air raid sirens, suffering and death.
They relocated to Cherkasy, a city in central Ukraine, which was safer at the time. But as the war has drug on and intensified, no place in Ukraine was fully safe. By autumn of 2022, as Russian forces targeted the electrical grids and gas heating supplies, conditions became dark, cold and nearly impossible to survive.
The family faced a dreadful choice: risk freezing temperatures, lack of food and a shut down educational system due to no electricity, and the extreme dangers to their family’s survival, or leave Ukraine.
They decided to risk the huge step of coming to the US to ensure the safety and continued education of their children.
Organizer
Kelly Lytle
Organizer
Omaha, NE
