Life in Woudenberg takes some getting used to for Natali, Valera and their two daughters Michelle and Angelina in the first few weeks. They leave Kiev in a hurry, a large city with more than three million inhabitants. They arrived in a village with just over 13,000 people and great distances between home and school. “In the beginning, many things in the Netherlands were not familiar to me, I did not understand a lot and I told myself that I could not live like this, this is not mine at all. But now it’s a little easier to accept life outside the city. This summer the weather was good and in the fall too, that makes it easier. When our children move to a bigger city and see big houses, our youngest immediately asks if we are back in Ukraine.”
Ukrainian family moves from Woudenberg to Barneveld: ‘Our youngest daughter feels good where we feel good’
