Sixteen young people from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, who come from all ethnic communities (five Albanians, six Serbs and five Roma) are currently working together on a play called „You and I are we“, which deals with the topics that are characteristic for  the growing-up period. The actors and authors of the play are at the same time the main characters in it, so that the text of the play is created by combining and dramatic shaping of their personal views about the world. The gathering of material for the play began by compiling a long questionnaire that had to be filled in.

A decision of the Protector of Citizens (Ombudsman) on the establishment of its branch offices in Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja has been published in the “Official Gazette.” These offices are to be established for the purpose of achieving a more efficient protection and improvement of human and minority rights and liberties in the region.

THE VISIT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, WHO ARE SCHOLARS OF THE COORDINATION BODY FOR THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PRESEVO, BUJANOVAC AND MEDVEDJA, TO BELGRADE ON NOVEMBER 10, WHICH YOU WERE INFORMED OF ON FRIDAY THROUGH OUR PRESS RELEASE, HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18.  THE AGENDA AND THE SCHEDULE OF THE VISIT REMAIN THE SAME. WE ARE KINDLY ASKING YOU TO ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR THE POSPONMENT. WE ARE GOING TO INFORM YOU OF ALL DETAILS OF THE VISIT OF SOUTH SERBIA’S STUDENTS TO BELGRADE IN A TIMELY MANNER.

BELGRADE – On Tuesday, November 10, 152 secondary-school students from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, who received scholarships from the Coordination Body, will come to Belgrade. They are going to visit the most important governmental institutions, and towards the end of their visit, which is for many of them their first visit to Serbia’s capital city, President of the Coordination Body, Minister Milan Markovic, and Minister of Education, Zarko Obradovic, are going to ceremoniously present scholarship contracts to them. In addition, President of the Republic of Serbia, Boris Tadic, Chairwoman of the National Parliament, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, and Assistant Mayor of Belgrade, Radmila Hrustanovic.

The “Youth Forum for the Education of Roma” (OFER) NGO gave joy to Bujanovac children by presenting them with valuable gifts.  The total of 142 children from vulnerable and socially jeopardized groups received sets of textbooks, which has made it possible for them to be educated under the same conditions as other children of their age. 

Slobodan Draskovic, the mayor of Medvedja, stated yesterday that the local self-government had provided a location for construction of a prison. According to the Serbian government’s  project,  the prison should be for 450 prisoners.