🍞 'People still need bread': The Kyiv bakery that gave away 100,000 loaves as bombs fell
, so Makievska packed up their things and fled. “It was a cold winter and I was afraid for my baby’s life,” she recalls of her newborn Mariia, who wasn’t yet two months old. “My first priority in life is my family and I was saving the lives of my children”.in traffic jams and at road blocks
So, instead of flying to safety, Makievska, 39, spent a week on the move. Because men of conscription age were, she had to say goodbye to her husband of 10 years, Valeriy, at the Moldovan border, from where she continued her escape on foot. After Moldova, she travelled through Romania, to Vienna, then Spain and finally to Portugal.
“We never closed. When the invasion happened, people were already in the bakery, on the night shift. Others were on their way in. Perhaps work stopped for a few hours while everyone was in shock. What changed was that we decided to only bake for people who needed bread. To customers [at the shop] we offeredFor Makievska and her staff, keeping the ovens going felt important. “Bread is an essential food,” she says. “If you decide to work in something like this, it is a commitment.
“Sometimes I’ll get a message from someone saying thank you for the cherry pie,” Makievska says. “It makes me happy they can do this.”
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