Temporary educational center will be created in place of the lyceum damaged by shelling in Pervomaiske

Dismantling of the lyceum in Pervomaiske, Mykolaiv Oblast. Photo: Serhii Ovcharyshyn, NikVesti

In the village of Pervomaiske in the Mykolayiv region, a lyceum was dismantled, which was damaged as a result of Russian strikes. Instead, donors will establish a temporary educational center in the settlement.

This is stated in the article NikVesti «They covered themselves with crayons because the ceiling was leaking.» Report from Pervomaiske».

«In 2019, it was one of the first schools in the region. An elegant repair was made, the most modern equipment was purchased, useful for children, but, unfortunately, the war destroyed this room. As we can see, the school has almost been demolished, the decision of the expert commission was to demolish the building. But we believe and hope that a new, modern, beautiful school will be built on this site,» said the director of the local cultural center, Mykola Levkivskyi.

Maksym Korovai, the head of the Pervomaisk community, told NikVesti that today instead of the dismantled lyceum, a temporary modular educational center is planned to be opened. The project is implemented with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the SavED fund.

«It will be in another place, not where the lyceum was. According to preliminary agreements, up to 200 children will be counted, including preschoolers and children from community schools,» said Maksym Korovai.

He noted that the donors promise to open the center by the beginning of the next 2024-2025 academic year. The training will take place in a mixed format, as nearby, on the territory where the training center is planned to be located, there is a suitably equipped shelter for students and staff of the future institution.

According to the head of the community, in the future it is planned to rebuild the stationary building of the Pervomaisk Lyceum, also at the expense of donors.

Advertising

«For the future, we are working on creating a project of a stationary building on the site of the dismantled lyceum. The work is going on, the project is being developed, it has basically been developed since the de-occupation of the community, because the lyceum was significantly damaged by rockets and Russian projectiles. Sketches are being made now. We are also cooperating on this with the donors SavED and USAID,» noted Maksym Korovai.

We will remind you that in February of this year, in the village of Liubomyrivka in the Mykolaiv region, a school was dismantled, which was fired upon by the Russian invaders at the beginning of a full-scale invasion. However, the children's parents are outraged by the demolition, saying that only one wing, where the gym was located, was damaged, while the rest was intact. Now there is no school in the village, and it is not known how the children will learn when they enter the full-time format.

How do children study in frontline cities?

As you know, a similar project for the construction of an underground school was implemented in Kharkiv. The building is built according to the highest safety standards, has 20 classrooms and is designed to accommodate 900 students in two shifts. In general, distance, offline and mixed forms of education operate in the city.

At the end of March, for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale war, 24 schools in Zaporizhzhia returned to the mixed education format. Schools in Dnipro also operate in a mixed format.

And in Odesa, in 2024, almost all educational institutions will work full-time.

What about children's education in Mykolaiv?

Mykolaiv schoolchildren have been studying online since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Although the government, with the help of donors and the state, is actively setting up shelters in educational institutions, which sometimes causes indignation among the townspeople.

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 military, says Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of preparing shelters and resuming education in schools when the Armed Forces move the front line.

Currently, shelters have been installed in 37 educational institutions out of 142 schools and kindergartens in Mykolaiv. At the end of December 2023, the commission recommended the opening of seven more educational institutions with shelters.

In the next few years, the authorities plan to equip 54 shelters in kindergartens, schools and lyceums in Mykolaiv.

We will remind, this year the outflow of students was recorded in the schools of Mykolaiv. Compared to the last academic year , the number of schoolchildren decreased by 3,300. Vitalii Kim, the head of Mykolaiv RMA, explained that the city's schools work online because they are still targets for the Russian army. Vitalii Kim also explained that the decision on the offline operation of the city's schools will be made by the Office of the President and the Ministry of Education.

Where in Mykolaiv Oblast is there offline education?

57 educational institutions were allowed to work offline in the Mykolaiv region. Most of them are schools of Voznesensk and Pervomaisk districts. In addition, 94 schools work mixed, that is, children study offline in a certain order, for example, one week after another. Another 277 educational institutions work online.

It was also possible to organize an offline educational process in the front-line Ochakiv, which is still in the zone of damage by the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system. There is a mixed form of education.

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