Sytnik Tamara Dmytrivna

born in 1948, originally from the Khabarovsk Territory, Komsomolsk on the Amur city.

She has lived in Kyiv 50 years for already.

All her life, she worked in civil services as a planner or an engineer. The last 15 years she has worked in “Ukrpribor”.

Her husband graduated from the Polygraphic Institute and worked as an engineer at “Ukrtiazhmash”.

They lived in their apartment in Obolon together with her husband and a daughter.

Last year, her husband died of heart failure. Some people, who introduced themselves as long-time friends of her late husband, came to his commemoration, and offered the sorrowful widow to temporarily change their environment – to move out of the apartment, where everything reminded of the loss, to another one which they graciously lend to Tamara for free temporary use.

Tamara and her daughter, unaware of the trick, gratefully accepted the offer, and after a while, the real owners came to the apartment, and gave them the key of the street.

They went home and knew that their apartment was already sold. So they found themselves on the street.

After a few months of homeless life, her daughter died at the age of 44.

Sick and deeply depressed Tamara, without any documents, was noticed by a caring person, a volunteer. He helped her to recover her passport, pension payments, gave her some medical care, found her relatives in Transnistria and contacted them. The relatives agreed to welcome the woman, but a week later took a return bus for her and called us, saying: “Meet her, we don’t need her any more…”

As a result, this volunteer contacted us, asking for help. Now Tamara Dmytrivna lives in the House of Mercy, receiving psychological support (at first we couldn’t even talk to her – she just kept crying). We collect all the necessary certificates for her to place her in a boarding house for the lonely elderly people.