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Vancouver Island support softens for Ukrainians ‘arriving with 1 suitcase’

Help Ukraine Vancouver Island says 18 months later donations still needed but war fatigue grows
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Anastaiisa, Bohdan, and Polly Konstantynova arrived in Canada in 2022, with just one suitcase. Anastaiisa now works with Help Ukraine Vancouver Island. (Anastaiisa Konstantynova)

Since arriving in Canada from Ukraine almost a year ago, Anastaiisa Konstantynova says she, her husband Bohdan, and their daughter Polly have had excellent luck.

Bohdan got work as a tiler and she got a job at a daycare centre as an assistant in Greater Victoria.

“I had a part-time job so I had two jobs and then I finished my daycare career and received a full-time job here at Help Ukraine Vancouver Island,” she said.

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