З початку війни на Донбасі загинули 152 дитини

"Sometimes we bring our toys down here so we don't get bored waiting," Lera says. Today, a police officer wearing camouflage and armed with a rifle stands guard in the lobby of the school. After one child was shot in the arm in the playground, children are not permitted to play outside. Field trips are out of the question due to the risk posed by mines and unexploded ordnance. "We have to stay inside the school all the time, and are not allowed to play outside during the breaks. The boys play football in the school's corridors" Lera says, "they can't break the windows because of the sandbags." As of December 2017, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains volatile, and violence continues despite the latest ceasefire agreements committed on 19 July 2017. The lives of children and their families, especially those living along the contact line continue to be at risk. According to a December 2017 report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, millions of people are continuing to suffer unnecessarily due to the entrenched political impasse and the ongoing armed conflict. Despite many attempts at a ceasefire, hostilities continue with almost daily shelling, frequent localized clashes, and rapidly escalating mine and unexploded ordinance contamination. The conflict has taken a severe toll on the education system, affecting students, teachers, administration and education facilities, hundreds of which hav