Elena Ivanovna Kovalenko has been recently hired as a counselor to work in the Gift of Life’s pro-life center in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine. Elena (Helen) is married and has two sons, 25 and 29 years old. Helen is originally from Russia and from 1973-1978 she studied at State Kuban University (Russia) and graduated as a teacher of geography. Then she married and moved to Sevastopol. From 1994 to 1996 Helen has been studying psychology at Sevastopol Institute of Post-Diploma Education. She has great life and work experience.
Helen has been living in Sevastopol for 30 years, likes this city very much and desires to help its citizens. She first worked as an educator at one of Sevastopol’s kindergartens. Then she worked as a psychologist at the Center of Social Services for Youth where she worked with young people, mostly teenagers. Later Helen moved to work at the Sevastopol Shelter for Children. She has been working there as a practical psychologist for the last ten years. Because of this great work experience Helen seems to know much about the difficulties of modern life. The issues of AIDS, HIV infections, abortions, and family problems are not new for her.
The new GoL counselor has a great experience of her own. Moreover, Helen spent several weeks in Ternopil for orientation in the Gift of Life program pro-life work and began Lutheran instruction by Pastor Oleh Yukhymenko. Helen has now started to work as the pro-life counselor in Sevastopol life-center.
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