© UNICEF/UN0150817/Gilbertson V – A child sits in a classroom in Ukraine with sandbags reinforcing the window to protect against shrapnel and bullets.(UN News Service) – Some 200,000 girls and boys in eastern Ukraine are commuting to schools whose classroom walls are often riddled with bullets, and playgrounds scattered with metal remnants of war.
That’s according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, in a statement released on Friday.
“Children are learning in schools with bullet holes in the walls and sandbags in windows, bomb shelters in the basements and shrapnel in school yards,” said UNICEF’s Ukraine Representative, Giovanna Barberis.
“The education system …read more
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