Refugee children from Ukraine can now attend school in their mother tongue in the Czech Republic, after the start of lessons in several special classes in Prague and Brno.
“Enormous thanks go to all who have participated,” wrote Education Minister Petr Gazdik on Twitter.
The project is led by the former rector of Prague’s Charles University, Tomas Zima.
The children are being taught by Ukrainian educators who have also fled, using teaching materials from their homeland.
The ministry assumes that tens of thousands of refugee children can also be integrated into normal classes at Czech – language schools.
Work is also under way to solve problems, such as missing school reports.
According to estimates by the Ministry of the Interior in Prague, around 100,000 war refugees have already arrived in the Czech Republic since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The number continues to rise, as a team of logistics specialists from the Czech Army sets off on Monday for neighbouring Slovakia to set up emergency shelters for around 400 people on the border with Ukraine.
The mission is planned for at least one month, according to a spokesperson.