The Brown Bus visited an Elderly Home today in Kolomya, Ukraine where we found Ira, a delightful 35 year old lady, weeding the garden. 

When Ira saw us, she dropped her hoe and came running to meet us.  She had heard that some people were coming to visit her today.  As we hugged Ira, she kept saying, “Thank you so much for coming to my home today.”

The director of the home shared that Ira is a very hard worker.  She gets up early every morning to feed the horses and cows before taking her hoe and spending time weeding the garden. She also told us that Ira’s parents left her on the doorstep of an orphanage when she was about 3 months old because they could not care for her.   Ira stayed at the orphanage until she was 16 and then came to live at the Elderly Home.