Amid Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II, thousands of Ukrainian mothers and their children escaped the war by coming to Italy. <\/p>\n
In response, the non-profit professional formation center, ELIS, located in Rome launched ELIS for Ukraine, a summer program to help Ukrainian families integrate into Italian society and build a life in their new home.<\/p>\n
PIETRO CUM 62 women and 95 children are taking part in ELIS for Ukraine. Some of them have traveled alone, without their parents, to escape conflict zones. <\/p>\n KATERYNA HORBATYKN Many of these migrants don't know when they will return to their Ukraine, and so ELIS makes language-learning a priority to help them integrate into their temporary homes.<\/p>\n IRINA SLIPUKHINA Fleeing war, these children as young as three years old aren't able to have their normal summer vacation, but in Rome they can still attend summer camp.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 23, 2022. The non-profit professional formation center, ELIS, located in Rome launched ELIS for Ukraine, a summer program to help Ukrainian families integrate into Italian society and build a life in their new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b0tIod6emE8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/belisukraineeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/belisukraineint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCEO, ELIS
\n<\/strong>One part is welcoming the youngest children, letting them play and integrate with other children. At the same time, their mothers are learning Italian, and we are opening a listening service to learn in individual meetings the skills and capabilities of these people so we can find them jobs right away.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUkrainian refugee
\n<\/strong>Now, I can hear from my parents, but the situation is always changing. In March, there were one or two weeks in which I could not call them, and for me that was one of the most nervous periods of the war.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUkrainian refugee
\n<\/strong>For us it is very important, we are taking big steps forward in learning the language. I've noticed that I can speak and communicate with people even outside of the school, I can go to a store and speak with Italians.<\/em><\/p>\n