Christina Lundberg believes that it has been easy for Borgholm municipality to recruit teachers and school staff who can teach children from Ukraine because the municipality has knowledge and routines left since 2015 and 2016 when many refugee children came from Syria.
- We have done this before and we have teachers who think it is exciting to be able to help.
So there are actually people who come to me on the street and ask if we need help.
Others call and offer their help.
About 20 children have started
To date, about 20 school-age children have come to Borgholm.
A few more children will probably be at the entrance in the next few days.
The children from Ukraine are all currently in a preparatory class.
To help in the classroom, students and teachers have access to a language support in the form of a person who interprets between Swedish and Ukrainian.
Inside the classroom, three girls are struggling with writing assignments in Swedish.
They've been here a couple of weeks now.
Learned some Swedish and is landing in some form of now everyday life, even though they all miss what they were forced to leave because of the war.
But the school gives them security and routines, in addition to the knowledge.
Soft start
- I think it goes well, it feels like we get a soft and nice teaching, says Katja Voronkova who came to Borgholm from Chernigiv.
And in addition to that, she has noticed some differences between her old school in Ukraine and the one in Borgholm, and then it's about school food.
- Here you eat a lot of potatoes, she says and laughs a little.