(ANSA) - MILAN, MAY 25 - Oryna, Sofiia, Kateryna, Mladenova, Lev, Olha: these are some of the names of the eight Ukrainian girls and boys, aged 14 to 17, six girls and two boys, who escaped the hell of the war in Mariupol , in the Donbass and in Kiev.
Anyone who has lost a parent, who has a father who was drafted to defend the nation after the invasion of Russia, would have risked death under the bombing by staying in Ukraine.
Now they are safe: they have been 'adopted' by the Freud school in Milan through the Sant'Ambrogio Foundation, a non-profit organization in the third sector.
Of course, adolescents could no longer study and were no longer able to lead the normal life of every young person who looks to a future full of hopes, dreams, opportunities.
To give them a concrete path again was the high school that will deal completely, and for free, with their sustenance and their formation.
All have been enrolled at the Tourist Institute and a precise and structured path has been planned - which has already begun in these days - to allow their insertion into our reality.
The stages, in essence, are the welcome, the psychological support, the literacy of the Italian language thanks to Russian teachers, the improvement of the study of English for those who already have a knowledge of the language and for all following regular teaching.
"We could not remain indifferent to the huge tragedy caused by the invasion of Russia - explains Daniele Nappo, director of Freud who coordinated the 'Adoption Project' -.
We welcomed these frightened, confused young people, forced into an unwanted exodus. It is not right. that they have to suffer and that their future is compromised. And that is why they will be able to go all the way through high school in the hope that their future will be better than the present. They are innocent boys like everyone else, they do not deserve the pain and to be abandoned ".
(HANDLE).