The Genoese family who are now home to Sasha and the little girl took Danijl in in 2003. “He was so good and so beautiful that we continued to bring him here thanks to the mediation of the Sampierdarena church. He came in the summer and then for the Christmas holidays,” says Caterina (fancy name). When he came of age, Danijl never returned to Italy, but contacts with Caterina never ended.
“Then the war broke out explains Caterina . I told him that things would get worse, he should flee and come here, but he didn’t believe it. When the bombing started, he took Sasha and Olga through Moldova to the border and there they parted”. The mother and child left on a bus of hope and arrived in Genoa. “Sasha didn’t know how to recognize me Caterina continues because 20 years have passed. As soon as we met, we called Danijl and he calmed down: we passed all the necessary procedures even if we were dealing with too much unnecessary bureaucracy collide and now they live here, at home.”
Olga has started going to school, sometimes accompanied by her adoptive “grandfather or “grandmother, she plays with Catherine’s grandsons and with the neighbors’ children. Sasha is in the house waiting for the time to contact Danijl. “We call him on Whatsapp says Caterina . He is a volunteer, he helps others to escape and for this reason we always call him in the evening.”