Ukrainian grandmother Valentina is grateful to Irish people for warm reception she and her family got in Ireland
Meanwhile, mother and daughter Svetlana and Valeriia Deikun will celebrate Christmas day with their host family, also in Cork, having arrived from Mariupol earlier this year.Valeriia said that initially they were placed in a sports hall in Clonmel, Co Tipperary with 50 other people. They were invited to Cork for two days to participate in a concert and then a “miracle” happened and a family they had met offered them accommodation.
Svetlana and her daughter Valeria Deikuv with Valentina Grishenko from the Ukrainian choir. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision The choir was formed in October drawing newly arrived Ukrainians from all over Cork to rehearsals once a week. Among the members is Olena Munobe, who was six months pregnant when she had to leave Ukraine last March. Her new baby Sofia is so accustomed to rehearsals she sleeps through the music, she says,
Olena is from the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and fears she may never be able to go home. Her father died in Ukraine last month and she is worried about the strain this has placed on her mother. “My mother put in so much energy to take care of the rest of the people that she went to hospital exhausted.”Meanwhile, the glue that keeps the choir together is Viktoria Tymoshchuck who travelled to Cork from Kherson in June.
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