Following a perilous journey from eastern Ukraine, a 73-year-old grandmother died minutes after arriving in the western city of Lviv last week.
“Every day the attacks are more, are bigger and bigger,” said her grandson, who goes by “Vlad.”
“It’s not perfect but, when you’re in a crisis, you do what you have to do,” said Holz, who is from Asheville, North Carolina.A distraught Vlad broke down in tears, saying, “I don’t know what my mother will say.”Paul Rigney / NBC News For adults, in addition to losing their homes and belongings, they can also lose a sense of identity, and many experience prejudice and discrimination., 39, is based in London and knows from experience. Her family fled Afghanistan in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when she was 11 years old, finally settling in the United Kingdom when she was 15.
They provide psychological first aid — “light touch, nonclinical intervention that allows people to feel that they are being heard, that their pain is valid,” she said. “That can go a long way at preventing long-term impacts of their trauma.”To Keller, the antidote to the helplessness and hopelessness many refugees experience is a return to normalcy and restoring a sense of community.