Moldova, meredith took notice. when they re here, they re just completely startled. we want today provide a place where they could get that support tlar idea became the sunflower center, a place where kids could have fun and hopefully forget about the war for a couple of hours. but she also want today provide educational services and structure. there were some children s classes going on. but they weren t sitting and creating. they were just entertainment with loud tech know music playing. they needed someone to hold their hand. we walk every single kid up to the classroom. we were trying to be kind and listen to what they need. reporter: in this room, we found more than a dozen children making mother s day cards, and they were anxious to show them to us. hardly a hint of the stress of war on their faces.
Their hand. we walk every kid up to the classroom. trying to meet every kid with an empathetic approach and be kind and listen to what they need. reporter: in this room we found more than a dozen children making mother s day cards. and they were anxious to show them to us. hardly a hint of the stress of war on their faces. their teacher is irona zell koov, a ukraineening refugee she fled odesa with her daughter and is making a new life here eye. you re a teacher how important is the school and center for the children? she tells me it s very important that the children have a place to go after being ripped from their own schools and their friends and all they know. irona also says she has seen a change in the children now they have some structure in their lives. they are calmer, she says, more positive and communicating