Matrokhina Nataliia

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Tell about your childhood, school, family, etc.

Our family was made of both parents, my sister who was 8 years older than me and I. I finished 7 years of a local school. I was a good student. I was the only one from my class who decided to move to a better school in the central town. The school was 7 miles away from the house – so I had to wake up very early in the morning to work 3.5 miles through the woods and 3.5 miles through the field. I studied there for three years.

Where did you work? Was your work good? Were you happy with your job?

I worked as a leader of a pioneer movement at our village school. Though working with kids was fun but I dreamt to receive a university degree. So after working at school for two years I entered State University in Kyiv majoring in languages.  After graduating from the university I worked at the boarding school with orphans who studied in the 3^rd grade. It was very hard to work with those kids: they could neither write, nor read. My job was to prepare those kids for further education. I worked there for one year. Then I got married and soon gave birth to my son. After maternity leave I became a librarian at the University of Food Industry.  It was an interesting job but it was not good for my health because of the books’ dust so after 29 years of working there I received a disability status. I retired in 1993.

Tell about your present life.

I suffer of asthma  – I have the 2^nd degree disability. I also have high blood pressure. In 200 my husband died of cancer. I live with my son in a one-room apartment. He is 49 and he cannot work because of disability status (he has schizophrenia). He has no family of his own.

Have you accepted Christ? How long have you been following the Lord?

I believe in Christ. I come to Him in my prayers. I believe His Holy Word – the Bible. I have been following the Lord since I joined St. Paul Church.

Tell about one thing your sponsor needs to know about you.

I believe in God. It was very hard to stay with a disable son alone after the death of my husband. Both my son and I need money to buy medicines and it is a lot.  Every day I ask  the Lord to keep us and let us live till our victory.