Profile: A girl who left her hometown

Olga has blond short hair, is tall, and she is loving, kind, emotional and intelligent. When her parents told her that they were moving out of Russia, Olga was 14. She didn’t think it was a bad idea.

“Everything that is done is for the better,” she believes.

Now, she’s 45 with a husband and two children, living with her family in a house in Bielefeld, Germany. where she has lived since 1992.

Olga and her family left their home, because a lot of the family lived in Germany. Most of them. And Olga’s family wanted to stick with the family. “Home is where we are understood the best,” she says.

Since she left Russia, Olga says, she’s never gone back, but she would like to one day visit to meet the rest of her family.

She says, “to shape life in such a way that every moment in it would be meaningful,” includes being connected with family.

When Olga started to school in Germany, she met two friends, and they’re still friends to this day. She even met her first love (and future husband) on a school trip.

“Finding a boyfriend and friends was one of the greatest happinesses of my life.”

After graduating from school, she did an apprenticeship as an office clerk, now she works as one, and lives connected with the bigger family, as her parents wished.

Olga’s advice to young people: “You have to live, you have to love, you have to believe and never lose hope.”