The local government of the Netherlands are generally supporting Dutch classes for the Ukrainian people that arrive to help with their integration. Regretfully Dutch is not an easy language to learn whilst many people from the Ukraine have learned English in school or University. We also met Olga, the owner of a language school in the Ukraine, who fled the Ukraine with her husband and four children to the Netherlands. She was the ideal partner to start a language school initiative!

Thanks to your funding, we were able to support six months of intense English classes for a large group of Ukrainians that fled to the Netherlands. At the same time, this helped Olga’s to establish her language school in The Netherlands! 

Herewith an update that is way overdue. We would like to give you an update on the 17 Ukrainian families that were supported by your funding of UkrainianFamilies.nl. For all families’ that came over to The Netherlands, government registration, housing and living allowance was arranged. In addition, all children were going to school within weeks of arrival! It is very important to mention that all families are now fully independent again:

• Eleven families have income from a regular job in The Netherlands;
• Two families have income from their company or are self-employed;
• One family has moved to Germany;
• Three families have moved back to the Ukraine to be reunited with their families;

This accomplishment would not have been possible without Tanya, our family coordinator that stayed in close contact with all families to ensure they settled in The Netherlands.

Two more initiatives from our initiative are in the way. Updates to follow in the next few days!