Elena Balandina relates how her efforts helped her, perhaps more than the refugees she assisted during her nearly four weeks as a volunteer in Bucharest, Romania.
“Me going and helping people allowed me to see how they put their trust in me,” said Elena. “That trust brought me healing.”
Part of that story, is her background. A native of Russia, she came to the United States in 1996 as a graduate student and later married and sought and received citizenship. Elena opposes the war, “I had to cut ties with some of them because speaking to them or talking about it, just leads nowhere.” “The country that went through the Second World War now came to another country and attacked it in a very similar type of fashion.”“We had a lot of kindness toward us. We had a lot of well wishes,” she explained. Referring to the United States, they would ask, “How come you came from all the way from over there?”
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