UKRAINE SCHOOL
Education for Ukrainian refugees How the online Ukraine School ensures “no child is left behind” I was in Dubai when the Russian invasion of Ukraine happened. I own a development company there and have teams of people I have worked with in Ukraine for the past fifteen years, and who I deeply care about. So, I flew up to Bucharest to see how we could help. Apart from the obvious of renting hotel rooms and sending food trucks to the borders, I was trying to think how we could help daily. It was a 4am in the morning idea when I thought, if we use our eSchools platform, that operates in 1100 schools in the UK and Ireland, and reskin it as a Virtual School to connect children and their parents displaced by the war with their activities, teams at eSchools have worked teachers, then we calendar, for the past few weeks getting it could educate them blogs, projects ready to go to market. We started remotely in their and class to sign off our first schools two own language and discussions. weeks ago. The response has been connect them back It allows them pretty incredible. We’re signing up to their school in their to connect with schools from Mexico to Finland. school’s language. other Ukrainian Everywhere refugees are landing. Here in the UK, children are students and new friends Ukraine School is free of charge entering schools with no English. to start building their own safe so there’s no cost to the student, Ukraine School is available in 50 community. parent, or school. I hope we can languages so a child can work in Our motto at eSchools is help in our own small way through their language and then convert it that “no child is left behind,” so education. to English for teachers to engage. Ukraine School can assist across It’s wonderful to see Ukrainian We manage their homework, Europe as well. Teachers can mail people on the platform and using us at hello@ it daily. It’s hard to comprehend ukraineschool. what’s happened to them in com and we’ll the past few weeks, so we’ll do add their new whatever we can to help them get pupils. Parents through it and set up a new life can download here in the UK. I think everyone the eSchools wants to help, we just have to App, click on provide the correct solutions to let Ukraine School, them assist. and that will BRENDAN MORRISSEY, connect them Tech entrepreneur and Founder of with their Ukraine School child’s school. Our amazing www.ukraineschool.com EDUCATION CHOICES MAGAZINE | S UM M ER 2022 | 53
