Luxembourg City Donates 9 School Buses to Ukraine

The City of Luxembourg (Ville de Luxembourg - VdL) has announced that it donated nine buses to Ukraine, for the purpose of school transportation.

On Monday 2 October 2023, the City of Luxembourg, in the presence of Anne Calteux, the Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Luxembourg, Natalia Anoshyna, Chargée d'affaires of Ukraine to Belgium and Luxembourg, and Luxembourg's Honorary Consul to Ukraine, Claude Radoux, donated nine municipal buses to the Ukrainian government. The overall goal is to guarantee access to education for some 5.7 million children of school age while more than 3,780 schools have been damaged or destroyed.

This gesture follows on from a first donation of five buses of reduced size (9.42 m) made in April 2023 as part of the European Commission's solidarity campaign "School buses for Ukraine". Upon their arrival in Ukraine, the buses will help guarantee school transport for children or ensure evacuations in the Kherson region located in southern Ukraine.

The nine buses (including five Mercedes and four Volvo brand vehicles) are each 18 metres long. According to the City of Luxembourg, their large capacity makes the buses "ideal" for transporting schoolchildren to educational establishments which remain accessible. Their delivery to Kherson was organised jointly with the Emergency Response Coordination Centre of the European Commission in Brussels. Kherson's regional council will allocate buses to the Centre for the Service of Educational Institutions of the Kherson Region.