Struggles

However, Oksana was not the only one whose education was interrupted by the war. The fights have influenced dozens of thousands of children and young people. What do they have to struggle with most often?

Fear and insecurity when the next shelling will start. Sacks with sand in windows to protect them against random shells. Massive presence of soldiers in the town. The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF deals in details with lives of children from regions affected by war. According to the Fund, there are about 200 000 children in the area where the army is present and 60 000 of them live in the area within 15 kilometres from the front line. Psychologists have proved that many children who live less than five kilometres from the front line suffer from posttraumatic syndrome.

Since the beginning of the war, more than 700 schools have been destroyed. In some cases, they were hit by inaccurate shelling because they were located in the immediate vicinity of military buildings.