From Ukraine with love: babushka knits socks for Aussie aged care residents

SHE may be nearly 12,000 km away, but that hasn’t stopped this Ukrainian babushka from making sure Perth aged care residents don’t get cold feet.

Seventy-year-old Allah Shulgina from Nikopol in the Ukraine is busy knitting colourful socks for residents at Aegis Karalee aged care facility in the Perth suburb of Redcliffe.

The grandmother (or ‘babushka’ in Russian) has already sent 35 pairs of woolly warmers to the nursing home, which have been happily welcomed by staff and resid…

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