OVER 14,000 VOLUNTEERS FROM PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITIES  HELP FAMILIES AND STUDENTS FROM THE DPR AND LPR

In Russia, student volunteers from pedagogical universities and colleges provide support to families and students arriving from the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic.

Educational psychologists provide psychological assistance. This was announced by Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov.

"Schooling is an important issue, but not the only one. About 14 thousand of our volunteers are now working in the temporary accommodation points. These are students of pedagogical universities and colleges (850 and more than 12 thousand people, respectively). They organize events, excursions, master classes, trying to occupy children, fill their leisure time. Make them feel that they are in a hospitable brotherly country. In addition, it is important for Russian schoolchildren. Studying together with children from Donbass, they get first-hand information about the eight-year war", - said the Minister of Education of Russia Sergey Kravtsov.

The Minister stressed that college students are involved in the collection of humanitarian aid, 405 such centers created on the basis of secondary vocational education institutions, united by the action "We are together."

"Already more than a thousand teachers-psychologists have joined in. Their help is really needed by many. People call hotlines for parents and children from Donbass. Volunteer students also assist psychologists," — he added.

For example, a team of students from Lipetsk State Pedagogical University under the leadership of Dmitry Borisovich Nasonov, vice-rector for educational and youth policy, is now in Lipetsk on an analytical and educational mission. Volunteers have already met with fellow activists, teachers of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical University, visited a tour of the university and started working with refugees.