A semblance of normality, when his daily life disappears… That’s what the cinemas of Helios in Poland offer to Ukrainian refugees. Over the past month, fifty houses have shown movies dubbed in Ukrainian to entertain families.
This Saturday, in the Cinema of Przemysl, an animated film is shown. Thirty people attended the meeting. Regular number as shown (Agnieszka Szmigielska, Director of Helios Cinemas: “The number of people who come to watch these movies is constant, between 20 and 30 people per day. Before that, at the beginning of the conflict, there were more of them. Now it is stable but we continue our work to show these films in Ukrainian in our cinema.“
In Portugal, we facilitate the reception of young refugees through books: Read author and translator O Camião das Histórias, a children’s story collection, to give children their first contact with Portuguese. Ukrainian parents are very happy with this initiative.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 4.2 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the beginning of the Russian invasion. It is the largest influx of refugees into Europe since World War II. 90% of the refugees are women and children.
