Ukrainian Teacher Plans For A Future In Romania
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🗓️ 16 April 2022
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One of those people is Anastasiia Konovalova. She used to be the head teacher at a primary school in Odesa, Ukraine, but fled to Bucharest, Romania after the war began. In a matter of weeks, she's managed to get a school for Ukrainian refugees up and running. With more than 600 Ukrainian children on a waitlist to attend, Konovalova is now thinking about what a future in Romania could look like for these refugee children.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, a group of us traveled to Romania to see how the country is handling the arrival |
| 0:10.3 | of tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Russian attacks on their country. |
| 0:14.8 | Our first stop, the main train station in Bucharest, the nation's capital. |
| 0:19.2 | Local producer and interpreter Vlad Bolołkhan showed us around. |
| 0:22.4 | We are in Gara de Mord, that is the biggest train station in Bucharest. |
| 0:27.3 | That means it's the biggest train station in Romania. |
| 0:31.5 | This is also the only railway station in Romania where the train lines they end, so they're |
| 0:40.0 | not just passing through. |
| 0:43.1 | Just about every bit of usable space has been converted into something to assist refugees, |
| 0:48.5 | a remarkable feat of organization for something that came together in a matter of days. |
| 0:53.2 | Blue and yellow signs read refugee help center with information posted in multiple languages. |
| 0:59.2 | There are corridors lined with orange medical tents and yellow vested interpreters standing |
| 1:03.8 | ready to field questions. |
| 1:05.8 | The waiting rooms have been converted into separate areas for women and children and mixed |
| 1:09.6 | families. |
| 1:14.5 | In the back of one of the waiting areas for women and children, there's a carpeted play |
| 1:18.5 | area. |
| 1:19.9 | On one wall are shelves filled with diapers, baby formula, apples and bananas and pet food. |
| 1:26.3 | In the first of several rows of chairs, two girls are hunched over the same smartphone, |
| 1:31.0 | picking at what must have been breakfast. |
| 1:38.8 | One of those girls is 11 year old Sophia Katliarov. |
| 1:42.9 | We come to find out that she is an actress and singer and rather famous back in Kiev. |
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