BUJANOVAC – Yesterday, Ali Riza Colak, the Turkish Ambassador to Belgrade, laid the corner stone of a new school in Veliki Trnovac.

Medvedja – As a token of solidarity with Japan, the staff of the “Gornja Jablanica” elementary school asked, through the Japanese embassy in Belgrade, the children of Japan that had become homeless to come and stay at the homes of their peers in South Serbia. Zivojin Pavlovic, the principal of the school that is attended by 400 students, says that they were extremely saddened by misfortune that had struck the Japanese and that they hadn’t forgotten humanness of the Japanese, when the Japanese donated 75 thousand EUR to them for renovating and equipping the school with teaching aids four years before.

Bujanovac – A group of 16 German secondary school students stays in Bujanovac until March 23, 2011. They’re returning a visit to Bujanovac’s Serbian and Albanian “Sveti Sava” and “Sezai Suroi” secondary school students, who visited the German city of Kunzelsau in November 2010.

The “International Human Сenter“from Presevo organized a course in Serbian for secondary school students from the territory of the municipality of Presevo. 90 secondary school students, who were split up into two 45 course beneficiary groups, have been attending the weekend course in Serbian since this February and they will complete it this April. The classes in Serbian are held on the premises of the “Abdula Krasnica” community center. On completion of the course in Serbian, every Serbian language course beneficiary will get a certificate.

Bujanovac – Shaip Kamberi, President of the Municipality of Bujanovac, says that Bujanovac belongs to a small group of municipalities in Serbia that have received certificates or acknowledgments of standards, whereby those municipalities are ready and suitable for investments.

The Coordination Body supported the “Small Steps for Great People” project of the Roma Center for Democracy from Bujanovac. The project gathers together forty secondary school students and unemployed young people from the territory of Bujanovac and Presevo for whom training courses in entrepreneurship and the starting of their own businesses were organized.

67.5 million EUR Invested in the Development of South Serbia Vranje – According to the data of the Coordination Body of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the Municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, 67.5 million EUR were invested in development of South Serbia over the past ten years.  The said amount doesn’t include considerable funds of non-governmental, governmental and international organizations, embassies and governments of several countries of the world that were channeled into development of South Serbia.

NEW VISITORS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA Leskovac, Sijarinska Spa – Residents of Sijarisnka Spa, which is situated near Medvedja and close to the administrative line with Kosovo and Metohija, hope that this year’s season is going to be a very successful one. Milorad Babic, MD, Director of the “Geyser” rehabilitation center says that visitors weren’t very interested in coming to Sijarinska Spa during winter months because of a long period of cold weather. 

“NACIONAL” WEEKLY IN ALBANIAN Bujanovac – The Albanian National Council is the sponsor of the “Nacional” weekly in Albanian, the pilot issue of which is going to be presented in Bujanovac today. This is one of the first concrete breakthroughs that were made with the assistance of the Albanian National Council, said Riza Halimi, Leader of the Party for Democratic Action.

Last Thursday, members of the “Future” organization from Veliki Trnovac showed another movie, which was directed by them, to the citizens of Bujanovac. This time the residents of Bujanovac watched a feature-length movie “We or They” at the “Vuk Karadzic” community center. The said film is part of the project entitled “We Can Do Everything”. The Coordination Body supported the implementation of the entire project.