NEWS pnoto Cindy Goodruan

THE KONDRATEVA family (left to right) Dmitri, 12, Dennis, 15, Karina, 45, and Eugene, 45, find
living on the North Shore a “paradise” compared to titeir former fife in Georgia, USSR.

Immigrant family finds ready
assistance in “this paradise’

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eligible for a year’s worth of adjustment assistance. It
runs out in November, and the Kondratevas are deter-
mined not to have to switch over to welfare.

Karina has aot found paid work as an English
teacher here because she requires a certificate from
the B.C. College of Teachers. In the meantime she
volunteers as an instructor for the North Shore
Multicultural Society. She had a part-time job in the
spring as a playroom supervisor with North Shore
Family Services’ drop-in family program. “It makes
me self-confident that already 1 work somewhere,”
she said. “I am a member of society.”

Eugene is qualified as both an electrical and a
mechanical engineer. His work experience includes
two years in Vietnam, but to be an engineer in Canada
he must re-qualify. Eugene has taken English lessons
at the Lucas Centre and combs the newspapers regu-
larly..Attempts to sell books and vacuum cleaners
haven’t worked out for him.

Both the senior Kondratevas have attended a job-
finding club to learn how to write resumes and suc-
ceed in job interviews. Only Dennis has found a
steady part-time job, working at McDonald's.

A straight-A student last year, Dennis will have to

maintain his marks if he is to be allowed to keep that
position, Karina said with an eye to his future suc-
cess.

Meanwhile, like Dennis, Dmitri is switching from
the ESL program to a standard school program this
fall.

The Kondratevas can’t afford to be proud.

They have availed themselves of the North Shore
Food Bank and the services offered at North Shore
Harvest.

They have been befriended by members of the
congregation at Lynn Valley’s Full Gospel Church,
who were especially kind when Karina broke her
ankle May 31 and was immobile for a brief period.

This new life is taxing —- there’s no question
about it. “It takes time, it takes your nerves, it takes
your life,” said Karina.

Yet she refers to the North Shore as “this par-
adise.”

“We are happy. Children can study here, (it’s a)
normal way of life. They are not afraid to be shot i in
the street.”

She'd like to be able to sponsor her parents to
move here, but first things first.

“My goal is to get a job,” she said, “and to stand
firmly on my own feet.”

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