A Latter-day Saint household in Utah was lately featured in a Folks Journal article for taking in a household of Ukrainian refugees. Screengrab, Folks.com
A Latter-day Saint household in Utah was lately featured in a Folks Journal article for taking in a household of Ukrainian refugees.
After escaping war-torn Ukraine, Yurii and Albina Kalmazan and their daughters traveled hundreds of miles, stopping in eight nations in 9 days, earlier than arriving in Utah the place they have been welcomed into the house of Reece and Michelle DeMille in Cedar Hills.
Reece DeMille serves as a stake president within the space for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“If it was not for the individuals who have confirmed us a lot kindness, we'd be caught within the unhappiness of what’s occurring in Ukraine,” Yurii Kalmazan informed Folks Journal via an interpreter. “They’ve helped us proceed to dwell.”
The article tells how the Kalmazan household left every part behind in Ukraine and the way the DeMilles and plenty of others have helped them begin over in Utah.
“Love is the best language of all. I knew if God needed them to be in our home, it might work out,” Michelle DeMille informed Folks. “We cooked collectively, we ate collectively. Now they're our household.”
Learn the whole article at Folks.com.
On July 4, the United Nations reported that no less than 12 million individuals have fled their properties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with tens of millions now scattered throughout Europe, based on BBC.com.
Utah will welcome as many as 300 Ukrainian refugees on this fiscal yr, based on KSL.com and Axios.com.
The Kalmazan household was interviewed by a native Utah tv station final April.