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Serbia - Belgrade, Novi Sad, Ljubovija – Marina, Maja, Besima and Aleksandra only seem different. What unites them is their passion for education and the fight to end Roma child marriages. “We can’t do without the former, and we have to do without the latter,” all four are adamant. Marina Simeunovic was born in the Roma settlement of Alingram in …
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Hope for every pupil
Seventeen-year-old Klaudija, from the village of Debeljača outside of Kovačica, is one term away from obtaining a hairdresser's diploma from the Pančevo Technical School. Her hands are nimble, her moves confident, as she practices hair cutting with her classmates during her favourite lesson – practical instruction...
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UNICEF and National Ambassador Ana Ivanovic extend cooperation agreement
Belgrade, 3 October 2017 - Ana Ivanovic, a UNICEF National Ambassador since 2007, visited UNICEF in Serbia. During the visit she had the opportunity to meet with Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, with whom she discussed the work UNICEF is doing in Serbia, and the next steps that ...
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Kindergartens without borders – where communities gather
“I get up, brush my teeth, get dressed, and I’m off to kindergarten.” This is how Dejana Ametovic, a bright-eyed six-year-old girl with a warm, inquisitive look on her face describes her weekday routine. Sometimes she wakes up too early, eager to join her friends, her mother Sladjana says. Sladjana can’t begin to ...