The Czech School Foundation in Volhynia, 1921–1939

Abstract

It was certainly a great merit of the Czech School Foundation (CSF) that it undertook the difficult task of organizing Czech private education in Volhynia in accordance with the provisions of the Czechoslovak-Polish Treaty. The most difficult thing was to overcome the lack of funds, which were being obtained in the form of regular fund-raising collections once or twice a year and extraordinary fund-raising events on various occasions – parties, weddings, baptisms, etc. The Czech education system in Volhynia also received material assistance (textbooks, pupils’ libraries, teachers) from the school administration of the Czechoslovak Republic and from Comenius, the Association for the Support of Czechoslovak Foreign Schools.