When Dima, with his two older sisters, came into the care of the Hope Now foster program he was just two years old. He had been rescued from an ugly situation but came into the home of Vladimir and Larissa Kusin.
The girl started her life in a good family. They lived in a village.
Her father used to work as a tractor driver, the mother was a milkmaid.
The trouble came when the parents started drinking and became
alcoholics.
It rained as Hope Now president Vic Jackopson cut the ribbon, but the
spirits of the orphans and staff were not to be dampened for this was a
day long anticipated.
Full circle... Abandoned as a baby, Svieta Marynyuk only knew life
inside large, institutional orphanages. She could have joined 55% of
orphans who end up homeless, but she came into Swindon House, our girls
pre-independence home.
