Refugee teacher from Ukraine continues to teach her students - from Bavaria
Created: 05/06/2022, 20:52
By: Felix Herz
Ukraine war: refugee teacher continues to teach - via homeschooling.
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Continental homeschooling: A teacher who fled Ukraine continues to teach her students – who are scattered across Europe.
Neuburg am Inn – According to
tagesschau.de
, more than 600,000 people fled to Germany before the terrible war in Ukraine and were registered here as Ukraine refugees.
Two of them are Marina and her 14-year-old son Tymofii.
Marina is a teacher who taught at a college in her hometown of Odessa until a few weeks ago,
writes
pnp.de.
Now the woman is with her son in Neuburg am Inn near Passau - and continues to teach.
Ukraine War: Refugee teacher continues to teach - from Lower Bavaria
Every day, from Monday to Friday, Marina teaches her students via video call.
Like herself, most of her students fled the Russian invasion and are currently in various European countries such as Poland, Romania, Moldova, France or the Netherlands.
But some are still in Odessa.
The sirens go off again and again among the students in the port city on the Black Sea.
Then they say goodbye to the class call and go to shelters.
When the sirens are silent again and there is no longer an acute danger, they let Marina know and the teacher adds them to the calls again, she tells
pnp.de.
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Lessons during the war: it continues via video call from Bavaria
For Marina it was not the first escape from a war, according
to
pnp.de.
In 2014 she lived in the Donbass until the Russian President annexed Crimea and states of war broke out in eastern Ukraine.
She fled to Odessa, started a new life there with her husband and son – and now fled again eight years later.
Her husband had to stay in Ukraine.
Marina is very concerned about the well-being of her students.
She regularly asks how they are doing, trying to take the burden off her soul by talking to them.
The material is of course a little easier than usual, she tells
pnp.de
via a translator .
And she has hope: hope that someday she will be able to hold face-to-face classes in Odessa again.
(fhz)
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