British pensioner Jane Penn-Barwell bought a private house with a mortgage to accommodate Ukrainian Oksana and her two daughters Alena and Yara, who were forced to leave the country amid the Russian invasion.
1.5 years the refugees lived in the British woman’s apartment, but in the end the pensioner decided to improve the living conditions of her guests.
– It’s not that we were too crowded, we were quarreling or anything like that, absolutely not. However, I understood that they needed their own home. I guess it seemed obvious to me because they had nowhere else to rent, and I thought if I could do something, I should do it — I could, so I did, — told Penn-Barwell.
Oksana, Alena and Yara are very grateful to the elderly woman who donated a small pension from the British National Health Service to help people who were in trouble and left their home.
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Now they call her a member of their family, and the girls affectionately call her grandmother.
– I love that my sister and I have separate bedrooms because now I can decorate the room the way I want. And I really like living next to Jenny. Having our own home where we can speak Ukrainian is very nice, — 18-year-old Alena shared with reporters.
