Paloma Cuchi, the World Health Organization's representative in Poland, estimated 30,000 of those reaching the country suffered from severe mental problems while half a million needed mental health support due to the conflict. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has organised psychological first aid training near the Polish border with Ukraine to help volunteers provide care for the many struggling mentally. The needs of those fleeing shelling and missile attacks across war-torn Ukraine, bearing harrowing memories and the pain of separation from family, stretch well beyond education. "There are people we have personally put on trains to go to the west who we see back at the train station," she said. With refugee numbers nearing breaking point in parts of Eastern Europe, Nicolescu said refugees were returning to Romania in the hope of finding a less difficult situation. Authorities there are trying to accurately size up the task at hand while seeking to recruit Ukrainian teachers from among the refugees.Ĭosmina Simiean Nicolescu, head of Bucharest's social assistance unit, said 60 Ukrainian children had begun classes there this week while many private kindergartens and schools had welcomed refugees. ![]() More than 500,000 people have fled to Romania, the second most after Poland. "We will be flexible, we will act, because we want all those young people who are in Warsaw to be able to study, whichever option they choose," he said.
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