By helping other people, we help ourselves stay human.
The story of the pensioner Svetlana Chernova, from Omsk was told by the local TV channel. Journalists filmed a report about an elderly woman living in a converted tank, without amenities, since the Soviet era. About the fact that miracles happen today thanks to caring people.
Svetlana Vasilyevna was “stuck” in a temporary shelter for long 35 years. When she was still a young worker, Svetlana was promised an apartment from the enterprise, but a few years later the Union began to fall apart and a tank became a permanent haven for the single woman.
There is no water in her house. In winter she heats the temporary house with an old “bourgeois”, and a few months ago, utilities turned off electricity. The pensioner took a loan from a bank to install gas heating and now the lion’s share of the 14 thousand monthly pension goes to repay the loan. Besides, the precious gas boiler was stolen while she was in the hospital.
The critical situation of Chernova attracted the attention of the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin. It became known that the woman was not excluded from the queue for communal housing, that’s just in the lists in front of her there are more than 11 thousand residents of Omsk.
After the hype in the press at the federal level, local authorities offered Svetlana Vasilyevna a place in a nursing home, or office housing, provided she worked in a communal enterprise.
The third option was renting housing at commercial rates, which the pensioner chose as the best for herself, since neither a bed in a nursing home, nor a broken, almost uninhabitable office apartment attracted her. However, she had to give it up because of her financial situation.
The ordeal of the elderly woman would have continued like this, but her story caught the attention of Instagram blogger Elena Trishina. She is engaged in active social activities in social networks. In her account there are many real projects where, thanks to the activity of users, the problems of people in need were solved.
Followers immediately responded to Trishina’s post. Within a few days they managed to raise an amount of over 2 million rubles. The blogger had previously contacted Svetlana Vasilyevna and offered to find an apartment together. We must say that the elderly woman did not share Elena’s optimism at all, although she was grateful for her participation in her fate.
Imagine her surprise when soon the pretty girl not only handed her the keys of the new building, furnished and with all appliances, but also gave the rest of the amount collected for her. By the way, the loan for the boiler stolen from the temporary shelter was also paid.
The blogger does not think about negative comments under her posts. She continues her activity, believing that by helping other people, we help ourselves to stay human.
