‘The war is not near the end’: Around 100 people per day arrive from Ukraine at Calgary airport
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The Calgary Catholic Immigration Society has been working hard to support Ukrainians arriving in the city since March, last year.
There’s been a surge of people coming to Calgary, fleeing the war in Ukraine, according to staff at the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) — the primary organization helping Ukrainians settle in Calgary since March 2022.
Hanna Vakhovska remembers the sound of bombing and feeling her home shake on Feb. 24, 2022 — the day the war started in Ukraine.She lived in an underground shelter for 10 days not knowing if she would get out alive.
“Every day in the shelter in Mariupol, when the bomb is coming to us, we thought maybe it’s just for two days and it will finish but it continues and continues and I can’t imagine how people are still in Ukraine right now,” said Vakhovksa in Calgary on Saturday.
Vakhovska, her husband and sister have been living in Calgary since October, after enduring a long and sometimes dangerous journey out of Mariupol and finding temporary shelter in three other countries in Europe.
She worries for her parents and teenage siblings back home near Donetsk.
“After a big bombing, they every time told me ‘OK maybe we will apply for a visa for Ukrainians,’ but after a couple of days they say ‘no it’s OK, we stay in our native home,'” Vakhovska said.
“Because they live under war since 2014 — it’s crazy to say — but they get used to living under bombing,”
In addition to working at the airport with CCIS, Vakhovska volunteered at a clothing donation event for Ukrainian women on Saturday.
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