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The ILPS Director awarded the effort to help refugees
On Monday, 25 April, student Vladyslav Zlochevskyi received an award for volunteer activities from the Institute Director Dana Hůlková Nývltová. The teachers of free Czech courses for Ukrainian refugees received honourable mentions.
The awarded Ukrainian student helped the colleagues at the Poděbrady Study Centre as a translator and assistant in the organization of the language courses as well as during the lessons. He talked to his Czech colleagues about the culture of his homeland, and he also shared his experience of living in the Czech Republic with the refugees. They were (and still are) asking him many questions.
Awarded teachers Michaela Straková Tomášová, Kateřina Pokorná, Lukáš Vaňous, Kateřina Vodičková and Zuzana Janíková voluntarily participated in the lessons for Ukrainian refugees. The initiative of free Czech language lessons for refugees was established at the Poděbrady Centre at the beginning of the military conflict. Thanks to the cooperation with the town council, it was possible to include Ukrainian teachers who teach small children in the course. The course was also attended by a Ukrainian doctor.