Throughout the summer, day camps for Ukrainian refugee children are organized by the Hungarian Scout Association and the Ecumenical Aid Organization in Budapest and Nagykovácsi.
They wrote that the weeks based on various themes are also colorful with outdoor and indoor games, art classes and excursions.
The aim of the summer camps, which host a total of three hundred children, is - among others - to
"for children between the ages of 5 and 16 who fled to our country from the war in Ukraine, which lasted for a year and a half, provide the opportunity to build new communities, help them process the traumas they have experienced with experiential pedagogy and strengthen their endurance during the time spent away from home"
- they said in the statement.
At the same time, the camps relieve parents of the burden until school starts in September, they added.
During the eight summer weeks, several picnic-like experience days are held, where children camping in different places can meet each other. Among them, the woodcarving workshop moved to the camp on Friday, and they painted a landscape together under the guidance of an art therapist.
Zoltán Sipos was quoted in the announcement; the head of the Budapest, Ukrainian refugee support center of the Ecumenical Aid Organization emphasized: the aid organization provides extremely complex support to refugee families.
"Supporting refugee families is complex and does not only mean the distribution of tangible in-kind packages - containing food, clothes, medicine or even hygiene items - but also those struggling with health, administrative problems, accommodation requirements, legal and psychological difficulties, as well as sublet maintenance or even language difficulties they also try to remedy your problems"
he said.
In addition to the camps in Hungary, the Ecumenical Aid Organization organizes summer experience weeks for an additional 150 "internal refugee" children in Viska in Subcarpathia. The charitable organization has provided assistance to almost half a million Ukrainian refugees since the outbreak of the war, the announcement reads.
MTI
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