VELIKA PLANA – TOGETHER TOWARDS QUALITY, INCLUSIVE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

Velika Plana, as one of the receivers of the grant, started in the previous period with the implementation of the Project, aiming to additionally include children from vulnerable social groups into the system of preschool education.

“Roma children, children from foster families, children who are disabled or have developmental disabilities, such as a speech impediment and the like, are included,” says Sonja Pavlović, one of the project managers.

Partners such as the Red Cross, the Preschool Institution “Children’s Kingdom” and the Municipality of Velika Plana, which set aside 253,440 dinars for participation, are participating in the project.

“We managed to gather 46 children, aged three to five and a half, and to organize preschool classes for them. Thanks to the obtained funds, we hired one speech therapist and one educator to work with the children,” Pavlović explains.

The children are divided into two educational groups, one in Velika Plana, the other in Miloševac, a village where the headquarters of the centre for accommodation of abandoned children are located.

“Work with children is organized on our premises and lasts three hours. Since the classes take place in two separate locations and in the afternoon, we have included our educators to work with the children. It is a beautiful and humane project “, says Marija Starčević, the director of the kindergarten.

Sonja Pavlović points out that due to protective measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19, classes are currently limited to 24 children.

“However, all children remain in the project. And as soon as the epidemiological situation allows, we will continue teaching them all again. All with the goal of helping children and their parents as much as possible, to help them fit into teams more easily when they go to school. To acquire good behavioural and learning habits. And tomorrow they will become useful members of our society. “

Source: Srbija Danas