Three generations of the same family from Ukraine and their pet dog have escaped their war-torn country and found sanctuary in the North East.
Yuliya, her teenage daughter Ksenia, her mother Olga and dog Nika are the first refugee family to be matched with hosts in the region by husband and wife John Lawler and Kari Anderson – the people behind the charity MAD Foundation’s Operation Safe Drop.
Sarah Martin, who is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and lives in Hexham, Northumberland with husband Chris and their two young children, has given Yuliya the keys to a property in South Shields.
