In Poland, we are working to enhance on-site support to secure educational opportunities for children evacuated from Ukraine.
Approximately 2.99 million people have been evacuated from Ukraine to Poland, and as the evacuation life is prolonged, securing educational opportunities for children is an issue.
At a public school in Rzeszow in the southeast, 30 out of 325 students are Ukrainian children who have begun attending after the Russian military invasion.
At school, we encourage evacuated children to study in the same class as Polish so that they can become familiar with society, and we also have Ukrainian assistants who can speak Polish to help them understand what they do not understand in class in Ukrainian. We have a support system in place, such as making it possible to check.
After school, we also hold language classes for children whose native language is not Polish.
Maria Kozakivic, who studies at this school, has evacuated from Dnipro in eastern Ukraine.
Kozaki Bitch, a fifth grader in Japan, started attending school on the 3rd of last month and is taking language classes in addition to regular classes.
Mr. Kozaki Bitch became friends at this school with Mr. Hana Higuchi, a Japanese student who studies in the same class.
Higuchi, whose mother is from Poland, moved from Japan with her family to Rzeszow, where her grandfather lives, last year.
Higuchi, who knows how difficult it is to get used to the new environment, says that he spends time with him while communicating in Polish, which is not his mother tongue, so that Kozaki Bitch can have a fun school life as much as possible.
Mr. Higuchi said, "I want to talk more and spend time together. I want you to spend your time in Poland with peace of mind."
Kozaki Bitch said, "I like this school because all the teachers and classmates are good. I want to continue living in Rzeszow. When the war is over, the rest of my family will join and live here." Was there.
Vice-principal Piotru Jalek said, "The most important thing is to adapt to society. I don't know how long I will stay, but I want to help Polish and Ukrainian children get along with each other as much as possible." ..
Starting next month, the Polish government will increase the number of language classes to learn Polish at school from two to six times a week to improve the educational environment for Ukrainian children.