In autumn 1992, 54 schools started the primary school programme for refugees in Slovenia. They included 9,000 children of temporary refugees who were taught by 450 refugee teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina. These primary schools were organised in refugee centres or, in the afternoon, in Slovene primary schools or other makeshift premises. At first, the working conditions were very bad. Sometimes the teachers had no chalk to write with. In the second term of the school year the conditions improved, as foreign donors brought teaching materials and the Ministry of Education and Sport succeeded to provide textbooks. However, even after that several children had to share one book. The school was known for its resourcefulness and bad situation regarding working materials, but also for its teachers. Half of them had no teaching education. Before the war, they either worked as economists, engineers, doctors, clerks or they were university students, sometimes also secondary school students. They started working as volunteers without any financial reward. Later the Ministry of Education and Sport provided money from foreign donors, so that the teachers received a small rewardfor their work. The work of Bosnian teachers was not easy because they had pupils at different levels of learning in one class. The children came from different schools. Some of them had or should have had attended special needs schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Statistical information shows that 31,118 people had the status of a temporary refugee in Slovenia, and that 5,459 of them or 18% were school-aged children. They lived in different parts of Slovenia. Most of them found refuge in 45 Slovene municipalities. Schools with Bosnian curriculum were formed on 55 locations. In the following years the number of schools, teachers and pupils decreased, as refugees gradually returned to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.