In the school shelters of Ukraine, they get rid of mold, rusty communications and cold concrete.

Now there are heated benches, drawing boards with LED lighting, and emergency lights.

All this - with the support of UNICEF. 

About how many such bomb shelters in Ukraine already receive students during air attacks and whether the children like them there, it is said in the story of

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In the kindergarten in Ivankiv, in the Kyiv region, where the occupiers raged for almost a month, it is still cool and uncomfortable.

The educators equipped the shelter for the youngest children by themselves: they connected the electricity, covered the windows with improvised materials, brought old furniture - cots, desks.

Currently, more than half a hundred children are forced to hide in a home-made shelter.

The smallest ones just fall asleep in their arms.

Every second kindergarten in Ukraine does not have a shelter.

In every fourth school, the basements are in an unsuitable condition for children to stay for a long time during the air attacks of the Russians. 

At the same time, thanks to the UNICEF project, 11 school shelters in the de-occupied Buchansk and Vyshgorod districts received a new lease of life.

Kindergartens in Ivankov, where renovations have already begun, are awaiting changes. 

After the repair, the school in Ivankovo ​​is already proud of its shelter.

Now, up to a thousand schoolchildren can stay here during air raids - not only from this educational institution. 

In Ivankovo, education is mixed - the senior school is taught offline for a week and remotely for a week.

Due to the lack of their shelter, children from another school, where the shelter is unsuitable, temporarily hide the air alarm in the renovated basement of the neighbors.

There is filtered clean drinking water, a doctor's office, warning signs for schoolchildren on heating networks, separate toilets for girls and boys, heated benches.

This is the look of school shelters according to UNICEF standards made in Ukraine.

There is also additional lighting provided by three generators.

The United Nations Children's Fund closely monitors compliance with all technical requirements in the restored shelters, because the estimate for such a shelter is considerable - 100,000 dollars.

UNICEF allocated one million dollars for 10 shelters.

In one of the lyceums most destroyed by the occupiers in Bucha, the shelter serves as a shelter for about 500 children studying in primary school.

During an air raid, they all fit here.

In Nemyshaevo, which has been under occupation for more than a month, shot windows have been replaced, and bullet marks are being turned into stars on the facade of the building.

It is well remembered here how during the occupation more than a hundred people hid in the concrete, cold, unfurnished shelter of the lyceum.

Now the photo from that time has been placed as a memorial - on the wall of the shelter restored with the assistance of UNICEF.

Anya, a first-grader, still remembers the planes and tanks in her native village of Ivankovi.

The girl says that she is not bored in the shelter - she has a lot to do there.

"You can do lessons there, draw, talk to children, do something good," says a small Ukrainian schoolgirl who is forced to hide from Russian air attacks.

UNICEF promises to help equip almost a thousand school shelters in Ukraine in the near future.

We would like to remind you that this academic year, the winter holidays in the Kyiv region will be longer than usual.

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