The Ministry of Education is already thinking about how to start the next school year and one of the main tasks is to bring all schoolchildren to full-time education as much as possible, and this requires shelters, TSN says.

The village of Makovishche in the Kyiv region was occupied. After the Russian invaders, the school did not have a whole window and a large hole on the roof, it was hit by a Grad shell. They patched up the roof on their own, volunteers helped with the windows. In the basement, my parents were put in order. The children were taken out to study. And they themselves continued to look for those who would bring the shelter to life, because now a frog is jumping on it.

The shelter was repaired at the Kyiv School of Economics.

In the neighboring village of Motyzhyn, they also went to full-time education only this spring. The assembly hall, burned by a Russian shell, was locked with a key. A long-forgotten underground boiler house was converted into shelter, where a stove was placed and concerts are even held during alarms. In order to arrange everything, applications were submitted to various institutions here.

After the de-occupation of the Kyiv region, out of 24 schools in the Makariv community, 17 were damaged, and a year after those events, 18 are already studying full-time. The head of the education department shares the secret of how they did it. They, he says, are not lazy to apply for all possible grant programs for reconstruction. "We started writing grant applications – our three institutions won the most grants in the history of the EU," says Iryna Voloshchenko.

According to the Ministry of Education, now in a third of schools children do not study in person, because they do not have shelter. To change this situation, 1.5 billion state subventions were allocated for the construction of new shelters.

The money has already been divided between regions according to the principle where more students study remotely or mixed - there is more money. In order to use public money, there are conditions: local authorities must also partially finance the work, and many students must study at school. "These are pivotal ones - at least 200, and other institutions where at least 350. And where there are no shelters or need major repairs," said Tetiana Balashova, head of the expert group on school education of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The lyceum in Brovary falls under all criteria - 1300 students study there. With public money, they plan to build shelters for beginners, and high school students will go to neighbors in the basement of the house.

Also, another billion hryvnias are allocated from the state budget for the purchase of school buses. This is to bring children to schools where there is shelter. Educators are trying to give maximum access to in-person education, since distance learning is not beneficial.

The last bell under martial law. From now on, not all schools in the country will go on summer holidays. In order to teach what was not taught because of Russian attacks, students will attend until June 16 in Kyiv, as well as in some schools in Chernivtsi. In Sumy, the right to choose was given to educational institutions, there are those where they decided to study until June 21. But in the de-bought communities of the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region, the program will catch up until the end of June.

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