Sienkevych explained why shelters are being prepared in schools in Mykolaiv: «When the front line shifts, children will go to offline education»

Mykolaiv City Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych responded to the citizens' indignation regarding the preparation of shelters in educational institutions that currently do not accept children.

He said this while talking to journalists, «NikVesti» writes.

According to the mayor, the refusal of children to go to school is a guarantee of their personal safety, because Mykolaiv is still in the zone of possible ballistic damage from the Russian Federation. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of preparing shelters and resuming education in schools when the Armed Forces move the front line.

— At the moment, Russian troops with their ballistic missile installations are very close to the city of Mykolaiv. If there are cities in the Mykolaiv region that are further away and can conduct training offline, then in Mykolaiv it is dangerous for the lives of children. We must prepare the simplest shelters, so that when the front line shifts, we can conduct offline training in the schools of Mykolaiv. That is why we have time and a break in education to prepare all schools where there is such an opportunity for offline learning, — Oleksandr Sienkevych said.

We will remind you that recently several educational institutions in Mykolaiv have prepared shelters, where children can stay in times of probable danger, provided they go to the offline education format. Mykolayiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych and People's Deputies Oleksandr Haidu and Andrii Bohdanets joined to check their arrangement.

As you know, 57 educational institutions were allowed to work offline in the Mykolayiv region. Most of them are schools of Voznesenskyi and Pervomayskyi districts. In addition, 94 schools work mixed, that is, children study offline in a certain sequence, for example, one week after another. In addition, 277 educational institutions work online.

Later, Vitalii Kim explained that the decision on the offline operation of city schools will be made by the Office of the President and the Ministry of Education.

According to the monitoring of the Department of Education of the Mykolaiv City Council, 65% of schoolchildren want to study full-time.

For the beginning of the academic year, the Department of Education of the City Council announces tenders for placement in shelter schools in an offline format. Yes, the shelter in school No. 23 will be repaired for 2.2 million hryvnias, and in Lyceum No. 58 for 2.6 million hryvnias.

At the same time, the publication «Ukrainian Pravda» together with the savED fund, as part of the «To school again» campaign, announced a fundraiser for the construction of a shelter for the Mykolaiv Lyceum No. 55, which in the new academic year should become a key school in the city district.

Read also the «NikVesti» article: «Threats and challenges before the beginning of the school year: will children return to their desks in Mykolaiv».