TORONTO - Darya Ivantsova has been having a hard time focusing on her studies.
The Ukrainian international student has been spending most of her time communicating with her family and reading about the Russian invasion of her home country while trying to figure out how she’s going to financially support herself now that her parents have lost their income.
“After the class, the professor came up to me and asked me about this whole situation and I just started crying just because it’s really hard to realize this is actually happening and that your family is there and I’m here in Canada and I cannot do anything about it.” Typically, her parents help support her financially, but after they fled Ukraine and lost access to their income, Ivantsova is now sending them a small amount of money from her earnings as a part-time teacher assistant at her university.
“ worried about finances,” she says. “Students have come to us things like groceries or public transport.” The University of Toronto is also offering financial assistance to students affected by the war in Ukraine, saying graduate and undergraduate students are able to apply for emergency grants program and ask for tuition deferrals for the summer and fall semester.
“Ideally I want to be able to see my family after my graduation, but right now I think I will look for a job just to build up my career and to be able to help myself first financially and then help my family,” she says.
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