Galina Mishchenko’s incredible story
I am Galina Mishchenko. I was born on August 15, 1937, in Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast, USSR. My father worked as an engineer at an aircraft factory in Leningrad. When I …
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Starting October 9 at the Seynod Auditorium
Neither from here, nor from there: Encounters with exiled women
Portraits by Renaud Kressman, featuring women supported by Lake Aid
We help to integrate exiled families living in precarity in Haute-Savoie, particularly the children.
We collect and distribute supplies to homeless and asylum-seeking children whose parents can’t afford them. Weekly French lessons for unaccompanied minors not yet attending school
Creating links between volunteers and young people without families who are not yet at school.
Every week, weather permitting, a team of volunteers takes a group of young people cycling or hiking in the mountains.
Moral and financial support for disabled children.
Visits to elderly people from Ukraine + translation of documents and medical appointments
Visits to isolated families (outside emergency accommodation centres).
Distract children from their difficult living conditions and give parents, who are often too discouraged to take part in family activities, a new lease of life.

We cannot use their real names or show their photographs, to protect them, but
I am Galina Mishchenko. I was born on August 15, 1937, in Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast, USSR. My father worked as an engineer at an aircraft factory in Leningrad. When I …
Zeinab lives at the Red Cross reception center in Thônes with her daughter and granddaughter. Her smile warms the hearts of those who meet her. In 1915, due to the …
I am too foreign in my own country,A foreigner here,Between two shores,Between two silences.Over there, my name resonates like a distant echo,Here, it stumbles on hesitant lips.Over there, they say …
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