First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, along with the team of her Foundation, visited the Chernihiv region, where she inspected the reconstructed school shelter and handed over educational gadgets.
In Nizhyn, the President's wife visited a gymnasium where almost 800 schoolchildren will be able to study offline from the beginning of this school year. The Olena Zelenska Foundation funded the comprehensive reconstruction and furnishing of the shelter.
“Until now, these children, like most schoolchildren in the Chernihiv region, have been deprived of the opportunity to receive a quality education and fully communicate with their classmates and teachers due to the lack of shelter. Now they have a new safe space,” the First Lady emphasized.
The shelter has been specially zoned for studying, playing, and working with a psychologist.
If necessary, it can accommodate not only students and teachers, but also preschoolers from nearby kindergartens and community members.
In addition to this shelter, the Foundation has rebuilt two more in the Poltava region. Nine more are being restored: in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.
The Olena Zelenska Foundation keeps looking for international donors and philanthropists to continue implementing this project.
During their trip, the First Lady, together with the Foundation's team and the Ambassador of Latvia to Ukraine, Ilgvars Kļava, handed over 672 laptops for the children who will not be able to study offline. They are students from the Novhorod-Siverskyi, Semenivka, Snovsk and Kipti communities.
“We are grateful to our partners from Latvia. This assistance is an example of how one country makes a great contribution to the development of Ukrainian education and the future of our children,” said Nina Horbachova, Director of the Foundation.
The gadgets were donated to the Foundation by the Ziedot.lv charitable foundation, with the help of Latvian entrepreneurs.
In total, over two years, the Olena Zelenska Foundation has provided 60 thousand laptops and tablets for online education in different regions. This was made possible thanks to foreign partners.