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Finally, we realized a meeting with colleagues from “Children’s Village”, a home for children without parental care, which is really conceived as one big family! The occasion is wonderful, and it is the expansion of the “Let’s get together and learn together” project, a program of individual support for children without parental care and in this home❤️ We have made a draft and the first step and we will soon start with the implementation! Thank you to the colleagues who implement countless educational and creative activities in this home, but they are also very interested in this program because they are sure that this kind of concept is incredibly useful, especially for young people from 14 to 18 years old (which we have not done so far). So they gave us a task, and we believe we can do it, to cover small children as well as young people, a total of 75 of them❤️ Thanks to the company BLACK ROCK, which financially supports this program!

The “Center for the Improvement of Society” successfully continues the program for the independence of young people without parental care under the name “Independent but not alone” and as a partner of the program holder “Center for the Integration of Youth ZVEZDA”. For 20 young people who are leaving the social protection system, or more precisely leaving the home, we organized an introduction to their mentors, and the entire process of their first meeting was conducted by the HR firm “TACK&TMI GLOBAL”. The young people had a great time through interactive games, and as an epilogue to the whole process, the first pairs of mentors and mentees were formed. The basic idea of ​​the program is that young people who left the system a few years ago, those who already faced all the fears and adversities after leaving home because they had no one and nothing, be mentors to the young people who are now leaving the system! They should help young people to fit into the local community as easily as possible and successfully start an independent life, to avoid many pitfalls that the “old locals” went through! A wonderful group, exceptional young people, whom you would never say live in a home, beautiful, well-dressed, hard-working, some of them are already working, and they achieve all this themselves and move forward! Many thanks to Radisson Collection Hotel, Old Mill Belgrade who provided us with his wonderful space to work for free, as well as food and drinks! We invite all donors to get involved because the funds for this program are currently limited We do not have, but we provide HUGE support to these young people without parents who grow up alone in foster care, most of them from birth

A few words about the ERASMUS+ Student Mobility program, which we implemented in cooperation with the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Education. The program in Serbia was implemented by the “Center for the Advancement of Society” and the Primary School “Dragojlo Dudić”. The “Center for the Advancement of Society” provided this group with various activities and tours in order to get to know Belgrade in the best possible way. We took them to the Nikola Tesla Museum, the Temple of Saint Sava, the Church of Saint Mark, Tašmajdan, Kalemegdan, Dino Park, the Pedagogical Museum, the Ethnographic Museum, the Selfie Museum, Belgrade on the Water, Knez Mihailova, Terazije, Konak Knjeginja Ljubica…

The group enjoyed and got to know Belgrade with all its charms!

Thank you to my colleagues who worked hard so that everything went according to plan: Svetlana Kostic and Sara Čolić😊

A few words about the ERASMUS+ Student Mobility program, which we implemented in cooperation with the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Education. The program in Serbia was implemented by the “Center for the Advancement of Society” and the Primary School “Dragojlo Dudić”. 13.05.2024. we welcomed a group of 10 children and two teachers from Istanbul. In the period from 13.05 to 17.05, the children went to school every day, as well as to tours organized by the “Center for the Advancement of Society”. Some of the activities carried out by the little ones at “Dragojlo Dudić” elementary school are: going to art classes where the children painted on canvas, then, a technique and technology class where they made models of their choice, going to chemistry, English, mathematics classes, musical culture, geography and physical and health education. In addition to the classes where the children studied hard, this school took them to the Chocolate Museum, where everyone made their own chocolate. Workshops for making soap and badges were also organized, where the children had a great time!

In order to support our students/practitioners in working with children without parental care, we try to organize as regular supervisions as possible in order to analyze the results, examples of good practice (for which they are responsible) and solve dilemmas in their work so that they can be even better! Today we supervised 17 of them, we are waiting for the rest on Zoom in the coming days 🙂

Thanks for the huge support to the companies Duel Srbija, MONA, BLACK ROCK ❤️

Many thanks to BOSCH for the Vulkan bookstore vouchers for our volunteers!