Portugal will rebuild schools in Ukraine. It is the “recognition of the absurdity of war” – Current Affairs
“Portugal’s desire for a pure act of Ukraine’s reconstruction is not one of cooperation and cooperation. It is the recognition of the absurdity of this war, of the cruelty of the attacks carried out against targets, regardless of the foundational international clauses”, said João Costa, during the Lugano Conference, in Switzerland, which aims to build a plan for the construction of civilians. Ukraine.
At the meeting, which began at the fair, it is expected that according to the intervention plan for the recovery of the country, which was invaded on February 24th.
Portugal will help in the reconstruction of the fence of schools in the Daukrainian region of Jitomir, whose destroyed city is near Kiev, where it is estimated that there were buildings from the war of 150 educational establishments.
The minister recalled today that “schools are the best places to build peace, to ensure civility and democracy. The destruction of schools are vile acts of power against children, against their dreams. Attacking schools is attacking the core of humanity.”
“If justice is unfair, this feeling of war is greater when we think of children. The child should be pushed out of his bed for, no child should be forced to wake up by the noise of the child’s movements, the fear of not knowing if he should feel his fear of not knowing if he should feel his father will be alive until the end of the day”, said João Costa today.
Ukrainian government estimates point to 1,200 educational establishments in the country destroyed by the war.
Portugal, since the requalification of other schools, schools of responsible establishments, day care centers in the Jitomir region, still remain the number of schools that work under load.
“Please accept our commitment as an expression of solidarity, and above all as a means to Ukrainian children that Portugal accepts their suffering and their resistance does not. We bet on them to ensure that, through education, war will no longer be a solution to anything.
The war in Ukraine has led to the flight of millions of people, with Portugal having so far granted 4,181 child protections, 28% of which are married to children (about 13,000 children), according to data released today by the Foreigners and Borders Service.
Since the beginning of the conflict, schools have opened their doors to these students and, according to the minister, around 4,700 students have enrolled in Portuguese education.
“We have had a very stable number of enrollments at the end of the 3rd period and already with an efficiency with the enrollments for the 1st period of next year, with a very stable number of 4,700 students”, he said. Lusa on Monday.
At the conference are representatives from 36 countries as well as international organizations such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization or the European Union.