She is a 17 year old Russian orphan living in an orphanage in the Kaluga region of Mishovsk.  
Soon Luba will have to leave the orphanage.  She has rare muscle disease that causes
her body to shake.  When she gets upset or nervous, the shaking becomes worse and is
also followed by severe headaches.  We were told by the orphanage director that she cannot function on her own in society and has no one to take care of her.  Soon she will be sent to an invalid home where she will probably stay the rest of her life.

Invalid homes are not very pleasant places to live in.  This is one of many bad circumstances that these kids will have to face as they leave the orphanage.