Olga Levus (Courtesy of JDC)
BERSHAD, Ukraine (JTA) — Olga Levus didn’t set out to revolutionize the Jewish community of her native Moldova when she opened its first-ever support group for single mothers.
Unemployed and living in the city of Chisinau, she was mostly concerned 17 years ago with feeding and clothing her three boys in one of Eastern Europe’s poorest countries. The club she had established in 2000 “was mostly to survive,” she told JTA in a recent interview ahead of International Women’s Day, on March 8.
Her initiative, which started as a support circle comprising six women, has evolved to become …read more
Source: JTA
