Keeping Children Safe in Kharkiv
In view of the extreme danger posed by missiles, and now glide bombs, the Ukraine authorities have ruled that all education must take place either online or in an underground shelter. Underground shelters are often damp and gloomy , but it need not be so. EDA has joined a project creating properly equipped underground schools.
Basement into School Project
This project is to help the conversion into a safe school place of a large deep basement under a destroyed school about two hours South-East of Kharkiv on the edge of the Kharkiv/Donetsk regions.
On arrival in Kharkiv, EDA volunteer Maggie Tookey met with a local group to discuss a project to convert a basement in the de-occupied village of Studenok where around 110 children need their education might resume. The main school was a wreck. The town had been occupied, and the school had been stripped of evertthing of valuae; in addition a missile had badly damaged the roof. But the basement was large, and suitable for conversion. The group had already completed a similar conversion in another village and this one would be a mirror image.
Maggie agreed that EDA would supply a large part of the flooring, strong metal doors,and all the furniture and IT equipment needed to give the basement the facilities that the school once had. After committing to take part, Maggie returned to Kharkiv to buy the supplies required.
May 10th in Karkhiv
This was the day that a major Russian assault hit the northern border around the towns of Vovshans'k and Lyptsi and managed to take several kilometres of Ukrainian territory which they describe as a buffer zone. Whatever this incursion is, it brings Russian firepower closer to Kharkiv city which is only a little over 40 kilometres away and well within range of the more lethal Russian weapo
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