I am a mother of 14 children, 9 of whom are minors. My life has been difficult since childhood: my parents abused alcohol, I became an orphan at 16, and already in the 9th grade I started working to survive. Later, I married a man older than me. He drank and abused me, but I stayed with him to raise our children. In 2025, he passed away. Now my children and I live in the house of my elderly mother-in-law in the Chernihiv region. We receive social assistance, but unfortunately it is very limited. Due to the need to renew benefits every six months, there are periods when we are left without any money. I receive 860 UAH for my youngest child (1.9 years old), 2,100 UAH for my 5-year-old daughter, and 3,800 UAH in survivor’s pension for all 9 children. If we are approved for low-income assistance, it is about 12,000 UAH per month. However, even with all this support, it is very difficult to survive, as the children are growing and need clothing, food, and daily essentials, which consume all the money. My older children already have their own families. They help with the household as much as they can, but they are not financially well-off themselves. I run a small household: I keep a cow and chickens, work in the garden, and bake bread when I have flour — this is how we manage to survive.