Government Expands Education for Ukrainian Refugee Children

Over 5,100 students from Ukraine are currently attending school in Hungary, and in a unique way in Europe, they are provided with five hours of individual, special development in institutions, said the Deputy State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for the coordination of strategic affairs on Monday in Sátoraljaújhely (near the Slovakian border).

Ádám Csepeti spoke about this at the winter camp of the Rákóczi Association, where a total of 700 Hungarian and Ukrainian students from Transcarpathian schools will be hosted in several rotations for a month. He emphasized that it is stressful for the students to adapt to a different education system after having to leave their homes. He pointed out that the Hungarian government is providing all the support it can and that Hungary is even more than able to provide both humanitarian aid to Ukraine and care for the refugees who have arrived here.

The Deputy State Secretary said that

the government covers the costs of the pupils’ developments in the form of special grants.

He added that in the field of higher education, the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship program will provide one thousand students from Ukraine with the opportunity to study at the most excellent universities in Hungary.

Those who come to Hungary to escape the war will be able to work under preferential conditions, receive health care, participate in the education system and, where justified, be accommodated if they need and are eligible, said Ádám Csepeti.

He added that since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022,

more than 1.4 million people fleeing the war have entered Hungary, of whom over 670,000 people have received some form of assistance.

The Deputy State Secretary noted that this assistance is available to all those arriving from Ukraine.

He said the government hoped that the war in Ukraine would end soon and that peace would come, and that the people of Transcarpathia would soon be able to look back on their home as a safe and prosperous place. To this end, he promised further support, including the construction or renovation of educational and training institutions.

In his welcome speech, Csongor Csáky, President of the Rákóczi Association, said that

the first round of the camp was attended by students from the Berehove region, and the camp will also welcome young people from the front lines of the war.

The winter camps at the Rákóczi Hotel, Camp and Event Center in Sátoraljaújhely from January 13 to February 14 will host Hungarian students from Transcarpathia and their accompanying teachers in five-day rotations. The aim of the initiative is to help them escape the hardships of everyday life in war-torn Ukraine. The students take part in cultural, entertainment, sports and spiritual programs, excursions, lectures and extra-curricular activities.

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