Oksana Kovtun - participant of the regional contest "Woman of Donetsk Region" in 2025, nomination "Heart that Gives a Family"
Until 2022, Oksana Kovtun lived in the Avdiivka community of Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region. In 2021, she created a foster care family in the Avdiivka community. In 2022, due to the war, she was forced to evacuate the city and move to Zolotonosha, Cherkasy region.
Despite any difficulties in her life, from February 2022 to September 2025, Ms. Oksana did not stop her activities as a foster caregiver. She overcame certain life problems and difficulties, but no obstacles stopped Oksana Hryhorivna from helping, caring, educating children, giving them family comfort and warmth. Over the entire period of her work from 2021 to September 2025, Oksana Hryhorivna, as a foster caregiver, gave 21 children the happiness of growing up in a family and overcoming difficult life circumstances.
Every time Oksana places children in her family, she is asked: "Will you take the children?" and she answers: "How can I refuse, these are the children of our Donetsk region, the children of our country."
Oksana Kovtun is a woman with a kind, compassionate heart who takes in children and gives them her love, family warmth, and most importantly, faith in a happy future.
Read the detailed story of the contestant here: https://surl.li/xeevtr