С начала войны на Донбассе повреждено или разрушено 745 школ: 200 тысяч школьников учатся на фоне боевых действий – ЮНИСЕФ

04.05.2018 | 16:50
Донбасс
Soldiers and students walk on a street in Krasnohorivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Tuesday 21 November 2017. As of December 2017, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains volatile, and violence continues despite the latest ceasefire agreements committed on 19 July 2017. The lives of children and their families, especially those living along the contact line continue to be at risk. According to a December 2017 report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, millions of people are continuing to suffer unnecessarily due to the entrenched political impasse and the ongoing armed conflict. Despite many attempts at a ceasefire, hostilities continue with almost daily shelling, frequent localized clashes, and rapidly escalating mine and unexploded ordinance contamination. The conflict has taken a severe toll on the education system, affecting students, teachers, administration and education facilities, hundreds of which have sustained damage. Education facilities are often shelled, particularly along the contact line, where more than 220,000 children, youth and educators are in immediate need of safe and protective schools. In 2017, at least 64 educational facilities were directly impacted, out of which 42 were damaged by conflict, and 22 forced to temporarily close, disrupting education for days or weeks. There were an additional 3 cases of attacks on schools in 2018. Schools damaged in 2017 and 2018 are in addition to more than 700 education facilities damaged since the start of the conflict, some of which are still not repaired. Further from the conflict line, hundreds of thousands of students and teachers require education support to cope with the impact of the conflict. An estimated 703,000 students and teachers in more than 3,500 education facilities are also suffering from the cumulative psychological impacts. A recent UNICEF report found that over 19,000 children live within 5 kilometres of the contact line in the GCA and over 1

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