March 2022. An elderly woman cuts roses on Mirny Boulevard. Russian soldiers are approaching her, they are wary - just a block away, on Freedom Square, protests against the occupation take place every day. The invaders ask the woman what she is doing. The woman answers that she takes care of the roses, they need to be cut. And she is doing this to please the people Kherson.

 

The woman's name is Nadia Timofievna, she is 87 years old, and she calls herself a volunteer:

 

"I call myself a rose volunteer in Kherson. War is war, but beauty should be in every house, on every street, in every yard. People meet her and say: "Timofiivna, we saw your work - it's a very beautiful square, the whole square is in bloom!".

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Sometimes Nadiya Timofievna kisses the flowers and says: "Thank you, my beauty, that you have blossomed and that you make the whole of Kherson happy!".

 

After the liberation of the city, Nadia Timofievna's house was damaged by a Russian rocket, however, when she was filmed at work by the correspondents of the media-platform “Vgoru”, she did not complain about life, but shared her dream. Nadiya Timofievna dreamed of a small saw and high-quality secateurs to take care of Kherson roses better.

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After the publication, there was a real "secateur-saw fever": many people wanted to buy the necessary tools for a good cause and for their hometown. Later, Nadiya Timofievna received several packages with the tools she needed. One of the packages came all the way from Germany. Such support from the people of Kherson, scattered around the world, inspired the retired female friends of the rose volunteer, so they started working together under her leadership.

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