TRSTENIK MUNICIPALITY – PRESCHOOL IN “BISERI” – VELIKA DRENOVA VILLAGE – ADAPTED AND FURNISHED 5 WORK ROOMS – NUMBER OF CHILDREN ATTENDED: 115

As part of the “Inclusive Preschool Education and Care” project, implemented by the Ministry of Education in partnership with the Novak Djokovic Foundation, five more workrooms were adapted and equipped in the territory of the municipality of Trstenik, the village of Velika Drenova, with a loan from the World Bank.

PU “Biseri” enrolls over 1,000 children in four facilities and 19 half-day groups. There is a great need to increase the coverage of children, and PU is trying to include as many children as possible. 150 children at the institution level are exempted from payment by category – the third and every subsequent child in the order of birth in the family, children who are recipients of financial social assistance, members of national minorities, children with developmental disabilities, and children of war veterans.

The Novak Djokovic Foundation, together with the Ministry of Education, recognized their need and adapted and completely equipped five workrooms in the village of Velika Drenova as part of the Inclusive preschool education project.

The new facility in Velika Drenova will be attended by children who are members of national minorities, children of single parents, children whose families are recipients of financial social assistance, as well as children with developmental challenges.

Renovation works included the replacement of floors, walls, ceilings, joinery, and lighting. New, adapted rooms (one junior nursery, one older nursery, two mixed, and one preschool group) are fully adapted to the needs of children and educators and follow the new basics of the preschool education program.

In addition to the furniture that was selected and adapted to each age group, the rooms are equipped with new toys, carpets, lazy bags, easels for painting, books, and necessary consumables.

In this way, we have enabled the joint forces for a large number of families to remain in the countryside and for their children to have the same quality conditions for early education as in the cities.

115 new children between the ages of 1 and 7 were enrolled in new groups in the territory of the municipality of Trstenik, and the premises were adapted and equipped to the needs of our youngest residents.

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