Kateryna Pyatybratova, 33, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, lives in Sunny Isles Beach, FL. She is a social entrepreneur, who is celebrating International Women’s day by helping to coordinate with faith-based organizations in Ukraine to help people fleeing the war zone.
One of her efforts has been to collect stories, such as the ones listed here, to celebrate their courage as wives, mothers and daughters.
“International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2022 marks the 21st anniversary since I left behind most of my family and my hometown of Kharkiv, Ukraine, to move to the United States. Since that day, my life has changed forever,” says she.
“I will never forget that last evening with my grandmother Diana, one of the most stoic women I know. My grandmother, now in her 90s, lost a little sister in World War II. Her greatest prayer today and always, has been to have her grandchildren and great-grandchildren live in peace, to never see the horrors of war she herself witnessed as a child. A few days ago, one of her youngest grandchildren, still a teenager, volunteered to join the Ukrainian army to protect his homeland.”