Large mother, forced by the fighting to move from Makeyevka Slavic, said "facts" as the family survived under fire and what to do to people in the occupied territories quickly found a common language.
    Immigrants from war-torn cities of Donbass, which sheltered the Christian community Charitable Foundation "Helping Hand", exhibited their works at the charity fair in Slavyansk to raise funds for the rehabilitation of children from the area ATO. Bright picture beaded, crocheted dolls and, of course, cartoon seals with amazing expressive faces. All this created positive people who had fled from death and survivors fear, pain, frustration ...
    "It works internally displaced persons, which sheltered our community last winter at a children's camp in the village Brusyno Krasnolimansky region, - says head Charitable Foundation" Helping Hand "pastor" Assembly of God "Sergei Kosyak. - Our temporary settlement center "Birch" helped to escape from war to families (about 300 people) and settle in other regions of Ukraine. To relieve stress, the women began to embroider. And after a while they have accumulated so much work that the idea to hold a charity exhibition-fair, and 10% of the proceeds spent on the rehabilitation of children from the area ATO - Marinka, Krasnogorovka, Gorlovka who now rest in the children's camp Svyatogorsk. "
    "Women handicraft and fled from experienced and vague thoughts about the future - says Svetlana (Fair participants were asked not to mention their names so as not to endanger the relatives who remained in the occupied territory. - Ed.). - We traveled from his native Makeyevka last September, after Ilovaisky boiler. When around where we live, work began to "hail" that sent projectiles to Ukrainian position, we have the whole house was shaking. ... We turned on loud music and trying to calm the children asked: "Mom, why do they shoot? They want to kill us? ". Now that the house where we live in peace Slavic, rumbling front door, children soothe me, "Mom, do not worry, it's not an explosion. This one went to the entrance. "
   Svetlana said that the fair is of her four daughters - from four to eleven years. The fifth daughter has grown, it has its own family.
   "There are gums like us, no weaves, that we in the German magazine pidhledily!" - Happily told me nine Dasha. Together with her older sister Tanya exhibition they held a master class on making bright fenechok.
   "In Makeyevka occupied every day became worse live - says Svetlana. - Our region, though not much fired, but the streets are constantly toured military equipment. The room evangelical churches "new government" would take your needs first of all because the Orthodox considered the only true religion. And this belief in them miraculously was used with the cult of Lenin and Stalin, who limitation of religion. Now the children left in the so-called "DNR" in his youth instilled communist ideology: Spring Donetsk students took the Pioneers. Pastors of evangelical churches in Gorlovka, in Makeyevka, and Slavic taken hostage, beaten, tortured. In Donetsk seized and beat the pastor Sergey jamb, who organized the prayer tent to pray for peace and a unified Ukraine, frustrated youth worship. I think the true believers are Orthodox people would never have done so Jesus called to love even their enemies. "
   Leave in the Slavic family helped Svitlana Charitable Foundation "Helping Hand", directed by Pastor Evangelical Church "Assembly of God" Sergei Kosyak. Own funds they did not have - in the occupied Makeyevka stopped paying child support. Men Amy, a former miners, injured at work, pension and disability payments recourse also not paid.
   "Many friends of her husband, who also miners, all sitting in unpaid leave - says Svetlana. - The mine is not supplying wood and metal for fastening workings. A long povyrubaly next landing. My mother complained that mine village left without protective greenery, fired hot summer droughts. I do not know whether or not the water is pumped out of mines suspended, because if not, it can happen real disaster - until the flooding towns. "
    Left without a job, many left the occupied Ukrainian cities. However, some men to earn money went into the militia - "at checkpoints stand" because active hostilities, according to my companion, were not in Makeyevka. But there were also ideological. For example, a neighbor Svetlana. Navidavshys home for things, she saw that the playground made by the hands of her husband for kids of all districts, just wiped out.
   "Our cousin, who oversees the house, said that the children of the neighbor militias, six and nine years, with the words" Once you go, you're not ours, "klumbochky trampled, destroyed sandbox and collected from tires child's truck, which the boys did not get out in the summer - outraged Svetlana. - God, why is this man so configured their children? It is clear that the idea to destroy the favorite place for games came not in the children's heads. Seeing the boys, I treated the candy and asked them straight, pointing out that remained of the area: "And if my children did so, you would want to be friends with them?". The boys looked down, apologized and admitted that they do not understand why they did it. "
    Light says that her family home will return only when Ukraine will return there. Relatives who were forced in Makeyevka, according to the interlocutor, survive with difficulty. Food twice more expensive than Slavic. And how expensive baby diapers, laundry detergent - even, however. These essentials they do not afford. All mom is hoping only on humanitarian aid.
    "I have 40-year-old mother of five children, is a house in Makeyevka, but I - a homeless person! - Sadly says Svetlana. - Thanks, church and charity fund helped renovate and rent an apartment in a new place, the liberated Slavic. Children go to school. All living, and that's good. After all, on the way to Makeyevka when returning for things and documents, our train fired, and I almost died ... ".
   It was 22 January. Electric train stopped somewhere roughly between Gorlovka and Yasinuvata and passengers ran helter-skelter. But Svetlana Ukrainian military met by chance, and who took her in a nearby dugout.
   "After the shelling, which lasted six hours, has brought me dugout militia and sent to Panteleymonovka (urban village," satellite "Gorlovka. - Ed.) - Says Svetlana. - Where the locals sheltered me for the night, the first bus, and ... made a simple interrogation. Studied my passport and documents for children. A detail asked about my home in Makeyevka of the family. Then said they just wanted to make sure I do not korektuvalnytsya "radiomayachkom of clothing." They say that on TV they always call to identify suspicious persons who may assist Ukrainian army.
   We went in a friendly way (smiling). I do not blame them for suspicion. What can you do if people befalls a barrage of aggressive Russian propaganda? And the same is no alternative! Take what my neighbor's son who broke two playground. After the war, we lived peacefully. Or an elderly neighbor with which we can say friends. I noticed that it became increasingly accost politics, with the image remembered those who went. As if living in evacuation, where it is impossible to bring the whole house, so easy! Especially with young children in their arms. But once in the garden of the pensioner began the season and was never watch television, her tone changed immediately, the tension of our conversations disappeared. We discussed common peaceful life problems. You know, as a joke: "The grandmother broke the TV, and she felt better!". I think that if somehow disable or block this propaganda, the common people quickly reconciled. "
    History of my interlocutor is not the worst. In liberated from the invaders Slavic settled many IDPs from Horlivka who fled there during the violent attacks from Avdeevki, Marinka ... Some of these families have nowhere to turn, even if the war is over - houses destroyed.