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«The children arrive truly traumatised». Lithuania hosts 500 Ukrainian pupils
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Illustrative image: A child at Donetsk’s Orphanage 1 in 2017
In Lithuanian schools, there currently learn more than 500 students from Ukraine, including the war-torn east of the country.
Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reports that the Vilnius Lithuanian House school now hosts 52 children from Ukraine.
Its Director Gintautas Rudzinskas says: «We are waiting for another 15 students from the war zone who should come in November».
«The children arrive truly traumatised,» he point out. «There are cases where one of the parents has died.»
The goal is to provide opportunities to unplug from the environment they have lived through, LRT reports.
To keep the Ukrainian students busy, the school keeps a long list of post-curriculum activities, including cookery, sports, town and museum visits. The children live in shared accommodation that include free meals.
The article originally appeared on LRT English: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1114820/there-s-no-shooting-here-ukrainian-children-find-respite-in-lithuanian-schools
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