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19 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Olga Buzenovska (48) cleans a conference room in the evening at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom. Olga came to Poland as a refugee from Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in March 2022. Today, she lives with her husband, daughter and granddaughter in a dormitory at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom, where she also works as a cleaner to earn an income. In Ukraine, Olga worked in sales at a bakery and bread factory. In the church dormitory, each part of the family has their own room, and they share a kitchen and playing room for children in the building’s basement with a couple of other refugee families. Olga’s two sons stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, which started in February 2022. One of them has died in battle. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]

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Ukraine refugees Poland, October 2022
19 October 2022, Bytom, Poland: Olga Buzenovska (48) cleans a conference room in the evening at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom. Olga came to Poland as a refugee from Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine in March 2022. Today, she lives with her husband, daughter and granddaughter in a dormitory at the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland parish in Bytom, where she also works as a cleaner to earn an income. In Ukraine, Olga worked in sales at a bakery and bread factory. In the church dormitory, each part of the family has their own room, and they share a kitchen and playing room for children in the building’s basement with a couple of other refugee families. Olga’s two sons stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, which started in February 2022. One of them has died in battle. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]