LWF has started construction work in Ichnya school
(LWI) - Months of Russian military occupation in the spring of 2022 has left Ichnya municipality in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine, a different place: Army checkpoints mark the way into the municipality, military bunkers and fortified junctions remain along the roads and damaged buildings testify to the physical impact of the war in villages across the region.
With the war still ongoing, near-daily air raid alerts call people across the country to seek shelter, and as the risk of air strikes persists, Ukrainian authorities have decided schools in the country cannot run onsite classes unless they have a functional bomb shelter. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) now works with the municipalities in Ichnya and Bobrovytsia – both in Chernihiv Oblast – to renovate school basements so the buildings are safe for students to return to in-person classes.