美国国家公共电台 NPR--Shelter.Lviv started on Instagram. It's now helped house 4,000 women and children

Shelter.Lviv started on Instagram. It's now helped house 4,000 women and children

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Olga Zabzaliuk is the director of a progressive, private preschool in an upscale part of Lviv, a city in Western Ukraine. A few days after Russia invaded, she saw a post by Nika Huk, a stylist and influencer she follows on Instagram.

"She was saying, 'who wants to do something about people who need help?' " she said.

The two women had never met before, but Zabzaliuk reached out, and within 15 minutes they had decided² to convert the preschool into a shelter.

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About 4,000 women and children have spent at least one night here since the start of the war — half of them in the first few weeks, as many streamed out of the country to Poland and elsewhere in Europe.

Shelter.Lviv has offered legal help for those who need it, psychological counseling, education and games for the children.

Now there are fewer than 100 people left.

One of them is an 11-year-old boy named Gleb Zapragin. His blond hair is shaved on the left, sweeping³ down on the right and tinted⁴ blue.

"It's just the style," he explains.

"Progressive youth," jokes his mother, Valeria Zapragina.

Gleb is a vegetarian⁵ who loves hip-hop dancing and playing the ukelele.

They came from Kharkiv. They spent six weeks sleeping in a bomb shelter with their neighbors — grandmothers, and mothers with infants.

Between air raid sirens they would return to their house to try to do online lessons and to feed their pet snail⁶. When they could get outside, Gleb and the other kids passed the time by planting a vegetable garden.

Gleb says what he remembers most is the day before they left. There was an explosion just 100 meters away from the shelter. It was a close call for his mother, who had left the basement to use the bathroom.

Twenty-three year old Liana Piatkovskaya, also from Kharkiv, is clutching a little, growling⁷ dog named Sky — he's nervous since going through the bombardments, she says. It's her sister's dog.

Her mother and sister made it out to Switzerland and Germany, respectively. But even before the war began she vowed⁸ not to leave Ukraine, because her boyfriend, a policeman, is here. Since the war started, they've seen each other only on video calls.

In the past few weeks, Zabzaliuk has reopened her preschool, and almost a dozen students have come back.

Everyone NPR spoke⁹ with said the shelter has been great, they are overwhelmed by people's kindness and they can't wait to go home.

It's not going to be a straightforward¹⁰ task.

According to a recent survey of Ukraine's internally displaced people by the UN's International Organization for Migration¹¹, two-thirds — a growing number — need cash assistance. And more than a quarter say their homes are damaged.

But the flow back is starting anyway. According to this survey, around 14 million people are currently displaced, but an estimated 2.7 million have already returned home.

Piatkovskaya's apartment in Kharkiv was hit during Russian bombardment, but the city has now been liberated¹² by Ukrainian forces.

"Yes, there's shellings, there's bombs, but I want to go home," she says. "Here is good but home is better."

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 sweeping   

adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的

参考例句：

• The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
• Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？

4 tinted   

adj. 带色彩的 动词tint的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• a pair of glasses with tinted lenses 一副有色镜片眼镜
• a rose-tinted vision of the world 对世界的理想化看法

5 vegetarian   

n.素食者；adj.素食的

参考例句：

• She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
• I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。

6 snail   

n.蜗牛

参考例句：

• Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
• Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。

7 growling   

n.吠声, 咆哮声 v.怒吠, 咆哮, 吼

参考例句：

• We heard thunder growling in the distance. 我们听见远处有隆隆雷声。
• The lay about the deck growling together in talk. 他们在甲板上到处游荡，聚集在一起发牢骚。

8 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 straightforward   

adj.正直的，坦率的；易懂的，简单的

参考例句：

• A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
• I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。

11 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。

12 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。