Our Tselukhin family-type Children's Home was established in 2012 in Rubizhne city, Luhansk region. Today, DBST is made up of 13 people:

1. Mother-educator - Tselukhina Iryna Oleksiivna, 52 years old
2. Daughter - Tselukhina Alyona Vitalyivna, 21 years old
3. Grandfather - Oleksiy Ivanovich Muzyrya, 77 years old
4. Adopted daughter - Payurshina Yuliya Serhiivna, 18 years old
5. Adopted daughter - Viktoriya Viktorivna Simakova, 16 years old
6. Adopted daughter - Shtabnova Arina Andriivna, 12 years old
7. Adopted daughter - Novikova Anastasia Andriivna, 12 years old
8. Adopted daughter - Maria Oleksandrivna Novikova, 7 years old
9. Adopted son - Payurshin Ruslan Serhiyovych, 15 years old
10. Adopted son - Oleksandr Viktorovych Simakov, 15 years old
11. Adopted son - Mykhailo Viktorovych Simakov, 13 years old
12. Adopted son - Shtabnov Danylo Viktorovych, 9 years old
13. Adopted son - Shtabnov Yaroslav Ihorovych, 4 years old

Mother-educator contact details:

• email - 1510irina69@gmail.com
• +38(066)888-95-95

The address of our stay is Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ivano-Frankivsk district, Tustan village, Nezalezhnosti avenue, building. 3

DBST Tselukhinikh

Our DBST - Iryna and Vitaly Tselukhinyh - was created in 2012 on the basis of a foster family on their own territory in the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk region. The house was built by themselves, the husband did everything himself - he laid the bricks, and he put the roof on, and he did all the internal work. He died on March 30, 2022, when the house was shot at (more than 20 artillery shells), while trying to put out the fire and save the house so that there would be a place for the children to return.

At the beginning of the war, our family consisted of 14 people - my husband and I, my father (77 years old), daughter Alyona (21 years old), a third year student at DNU named T. Shevchenko, adopted children:- Yuliya (18 years old) 1st year student of DDPU, Ruslan (15 years old) 9th year student, Victoria (16 years old) 8th year student, Oleksandr (14 years old) 8th year student, Mykhaylyk (12 years old) 6th year student year, Anastasia (11 years old), 6th year student, Arina (11 years old), 5th year student, Danya (8 years old), 2nd year student, Mariyka (7 years old) old), 1st grade student, Yaroslavka ( 3 years).

On February 24th, our family woke up at 5 am because of the explosions. On March 8th, the battles for our city began. The family decided that we would stay at home, the products were all ours, there was supply, water and gas. During the bombing, they hid in the basement of the building. But on March 12, the northern part of the city was captured by troops of the Russian Federation and after 300 meters from us the defense line passed, we are in Ukrainian territory, the north is occupied territory.

From that moment we were caught in the crossfire and stayed in the basement of the house.

Her husband, daughter and older sons worked at the volunteer center and helped deliver humanitarian aid to the elderly, guardians and adoptive families. They did this until March 15, because that day, on their way home, they were stopped by the Russians and searched with automatic rifles. After that, they never left the house.

The first shell exploded near the house, and the windows of the children's rooms were smashed. On March 19, a heavy night bombardment began, during which Myshko (12 years old) was wounded by a projectile fragment. After that, I turned to "Save Ukraine together" and asked for help with the evacuation, because 14 people (10 children, myself, my husband, daughter, my father) couldn't leave on their own, we didn't have our own big transport, just an old car with 7 seats.

The situation became more difficult every day, the bombing became more powerful (artillery, mines - high explosive, incendiary, phosphorus, vacuum bombs, aircraft, etc.). From the 19th to the 24th of March, the children were in the basement all the time, I even fed them there. It was more difficult with the youngest Yarik (3 years old) because he asked to sleep in his crib, they fell asleep there and when the bombing started they quickly lowered him to the basement with a blanket.

At the family meeting, it was decided that me, 10 sons and my daughter will leave, and my husband and father will stay (my father recently had 4 operations and had health problems, and my husband said he would keep our house so that there would be a place for the children to return).

On March 24, around 10 am, my kids and I moved to the neighboring neighborhood, where Oleksandr picked us up on a freight bus. When leaving the city, we were hit by an air attack, but thanks to the skill of our "guardian angel" we were lucky enough to reach Sloviansk (Donetsk region). We were hospitably welcomed by the "Candles of Hope" shelter of the "Good News" church, where we were fed, rested, and in the morning, volunteers traveling to Western Ukraine in search of humanitarian aid, picked us up and took us to Frankiv Oblast. We were warmly welcomed by Dubovetska TG, and the village community of Mezhyhirtsi in general became like family to us.

Today, the children and adults in our family are already part of the community and participate in the organization and realization of all community events.

But today, as an adult, I have 10 orphans, a sick parent, and I can't solve the biggest problem - housing, as much as I want to. We have nowhere to go back to, and living in school is not an option either.

The community found us a small apartment (44 square meters) with three bedrooms as temporary accommodation. Volunteer builders offer to build a modular home, but cannot raise funds for it. The community has already allocated land, but the community does not have the resources to build. So we ended up hostage to the situation. And to be honest, I don't know what to do in the first place - the kids need psychological help, Vicky needs individual special glasses, the father needs constant medical supervision and treatment, Myshkov also needs rehabilitation after the injury and also a car so he can take the kids to training, circles. But the most important is the question of housing, its disposition and the creation of safe and adequate conditions for the life and development of children.