So many children from Ukraine go to school with us – Austria
40,000 refugees from Ukraine are registered in Austria, including many children who go to school in the federal states. The details.
According to UNHCR (Note. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) more than four million people have fled Ukraine so far – and new displaced people are arriving every day. According to the Ministry of the Interior, around 225,000 war refugees have entered Austria so far (as of March 29).
However, around 82 percent of them did not stay in the Alpine republic after fleeing, but traveled on to other countries. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) recently announced at a press conference that 40,000 people seeking protection had been registered and around 7,000 had been issued with refugee passports.
4,000 Ukraine children in schools
Among the refugees from Ukraine who seek protection in Austria are many school-age children who are now being introduced by teachers in the individual federal states. Loud “Today”-Information currently around 4,000 children and young people driven out of Ukraine go to school here.
However, most of them do not attend classes in the federal capital, but in Lower Austria. 1,130 children and young people from Ukraine are currently (as of March 28) supported in the federal state with the largest area in the country, supported by Vienna with 1,112 pupils from Ukraine.
This is followed by Styria with 402 and Tyrol with 314 refugee children. There are 304 refugees in Upper Austria, 202 in Burgenland, 196 in Carinthia and 186 in Salzburg. The fewest children and young people are carried out in Vorarlberg – in the country there are currently 76 Ukraine refugees going to school.