Her New Life Began at the Shelter Home.
The picture shows Ulyana and her younger son's birthday at a rehabilitation home. His older brother helps blow out the candles on the cake.
Ulyana came to Chelyabinsk to study at the age of seventeen. Her education was interrupted, though, when she took a full-time job. She met a man who became the father of their two children. He made a good living for them in construction, but then he started drinking. Sadly he died suddenly of a stroke!
Ulyana was devastated. Alone to raise her two young children, she turned to alcohol and antidepressants to cope with her grief.
Another tragedy nearly occurred when Ulyana was passed out from drinking, her children were playing in front of an open window high above the ground. Thankfully neighbors noticed and called the police.
Social authorities informed Ulyana that her children would be taken out of her custody if her lifestyle did not change. The desperate mother turned to our rehabilitation center for help.
Ulyana and her children now live with us, and a lot of wonderful changes have taken place in their lives. Ulyana is now sober from substance abuse. Our legal advisor helped her get financial support. Her boys are registered for daycare, and they receive speech therapy regularly.
Ulyana came to our center needing emotional and financial support and wondering if she’d ever be happy again. While there, she came to know true joy. Like many of the other mothers, she put her faith in Jesus Christ and has begun to grow spiritually.
Ulyana wants to mentor mothers who come to the shelter home and struggle with problems similar to hers. She helps with housekeeping and with finding donations for the shelter.
Ulyana is very grateful to the MP team members and other women at the home for their support and prayers.
She loves her children and has become joyful and open, facing each day in faith and looking to the
future expectantly.
Before and after pictures, when Ulyana began rehabilitation, she was physically and mentally depleted. Two months later, things were significantly different.
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