A local family, right here in Jacksonville, has brought over a dozen Ukrainian refugees into their homes and community- many of the kids.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A local family in Jacksonville has brought over a dozen Ukrainian refugees into their homes and community, many of them kids.
“I joke and say, my kids, they overslept at the beginning of the war,” she smiled. Her two daughters, 10 years old and 14 years old, sat next to her smiling but looking off into the distance. “They gave us four mattresses to sleep on for six of us but that was enough. They were really very kind. We had food, we had toys and the kids felt relaxed there,” Olga said.“My cousin texted me on Messenger and she was like okay, Andrew just woke up her husband, and we heard the bombs. So it started. And I just got chills. and that’s it.”
Now, they have relocated 15 people, family, and friends, to homes in the area. At least half of them are kids between the ages of 4 to 18 — kids that now know war. “We are not in our home, we are not with our toys, we are not with our classmates and I want to go back and live how I lived before,” Maria said.Surveillance video shows JSO-involved shooting, wrongful death suit filed