The first Ukrainian classes for refugee children have started operating in Prague today Company News Pražská Drbna
The first classes for the children of Ukrainian refugees began to operate today in the 1st Slavic grammar school in Prague 1. The school is one of about twenty people who have signed up for the Ukrainian One Class project. The project was prepared by the Ukrainian Embassy together with the Children of Ukraine Endowment Fund and the Rector Emeritus of Charles University Tomáš Zima with the support of the Ministry of Education.
The grammar school in Prague has opened five classes for one hundred children
Decorated balloons in blue and yellow, Ukrainian flags, sweets, drinks, crayons and coloring books were waiting for the fourth graders in the 1st Slavic grammar school in Masná Street. Upon their arrival, they were welcomed by representatives of the school and the Ukrainian One-Class project together with Minister Petr Gazdík (STAN). The mothers accompanied 12 children to the class, who came with their families from different regions of Ukraine. At first they were shouted, but later they dared to start having fun with the adults present. “Hi!” they then said goodbye to the minister.
“The grammar school has opened five classes for a hundred children,” said the director of the grammar school Tatiana Pergler. With regard to the current spring holidays in Prague 1, the school this week also offered its premises for another four classes with children from other years, which will be moved to other schools from next week. According to Zima, approximately twenty schools in Prague and Brno have applied for the project at this time. According to Zima, children between the ages of about six and seventeen can apply to Ukrainian one-class classes, which will provide education for children in their native language. “In Ukraine, the basic education is eleven years old,” he explained Winter.
Before the war, which was unleashed on their territory by the Vladimir Putin regime, Ukrainian refugees can come to the Wardrobe in the Prague Market Square for material assistance. There is clothes, shoes, toiletries, equipment ready for them free of charge …
“Children face a lot of problems as a result of the war”
Interior Minister Vít Rakušan (STAN) said on Sunday that the number of refugees from Ukraine who had come to the Czech Republic due to the Russian invasion had doubled to 100,000 since Friday. According to Gazdík, the government could discuss a bill on Wednesday, which should, among other things, simplify the access of Ukrainians to education in the Czech Republic. They may need to extend the deadline for applying for secondary school entrance examinations and, if they do not have evidence of previous education, they could submit a solemn declaration instead.
According to Gazdík, hundreds of other Ukrainian children also sat in Czech schools throughout the Czech Republic today. According to him, the education system can now integrate about 100,000 of them. He described the fact that children could go to school as an essential condition for their parents’ employment. Czech schools will have to deal with that, he says. “We are counting on the involvement of Czech teachers, colleagues from the Faculty of Education of Charles University already have a database of volunteers, we will also contact the associations of faculties of education and I assume that as students help in the time of the covid,added the Rector Emeritus of Charles University Winter.
“As a result of the war, children have a lot of problems that can unfortunately affect them for a long time, I mean mainly mental problems that could have caused the sounds of shelling or rockets. But life goes on and children should have the opportunity to learn and study. The Ukrainian embassy is ready to fully participate in the project“Said the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic Jevhen Perebyjnis.