Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Project: We Kept Our Promise Made Last Year

by NDFAuthors

  • Oct 11, 2022

Within the Project of Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Project, which is being implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and financed by a World Bank loan, 131 study rooms have been opened in 30 municipalities, i.e., 3,136 places in preschools throughout Serbia.

When the Novak Djokovic Foundation signed a  partnership agreement with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development on the Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Project in May last year, it was announced that at least 120 study rooms for children across Serbia would be opened by the end of 2022. Seventeen months later, together we have exceeded our official goal, which is why we will continue to implement the project with even more enthusiasm. We look forward to new smiles on the faces of children who will be included in early development programs via this project.

The cities and municipalities where children have been given the opportunity to develop in the best possible way are:

– Municipality of Svilajnac, Kušiljevo village (85 places)
– City of Belgrade, Municipality of Vračar (200 places)
– City of Belgrade, Municipality of Stari grad (75 places)
– Municipality of Obrenovac (186 places)
– Municipality of Nova Varoš (80 places)
– Municipality of Doljevac (105 places)
– Municipality of Vladičin Han (75 places)
– Municipality of Rača (240 places)
– Municipality of Čukarica “‹”‹(270 places)
– Municipality of Apatin (15 places)
– Municipality of Čajetina (100 places)
– Municipality of Batočina (25 places)
– Municipality of Pećinci (300 places)
– Municipality of Zemun (75 places)
– Municipality of Žagubica (50 places)
– City of Pančevo (40 places)
– City of Pančevo, Dolovo village (65 places)
– Municipality of Sjenica (190 places)
– Municipality of Sremska Mitrovica (100 places)
– Municipality of Vlasotince (75 places)
– Municipality of Velika Plana, Bresje village (25 places)
– Municipality of Velika Plana, Veliko Orašje village (50 places)
– Municipality of Dimitrovgrad (50 places)
– City of Niš, Novo Selo (125 children)
– Municipality of Raška (60 places)
– Municipality of Brus, village Zlatari (25 places)
– Municipality of Opovo (50 places)
– Municipality of Vladimirci, village Debrc (65 places)
– Municipality of Bač, village Bođani (25 places)
– Municipality of Požega, village Zdravčići (40 places)
– City of Belgrade, Municipality of Bežanijska kosa (270 places)

Novak Djokovic Foundation manages the furnishing of all study rooms that are opened within the Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Project. The team of the Foundation will, as before, try to support the efforts of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development to improve the system of preschool education and to carry out the educational process in even better conditions.