On behalf of EU office, Rebekah Wigemark visits Vladimir Nazor Centre

On behalf of Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, the Head of the EU Delegation and EU Special Representative in BiH, Mrs Rebekah Wigemark today visited the Centre Vladimir Nazor in Sarajevo.

Established in 1968, the Centre is the leading educational institutional in the region, that provides expert support to children and persons with disabilities to a remarkably high standard. Apart from the general therapeutical, pedagogical and psychological support, the Centre features individual learning plans tailor-made for each child to best foster their capabilities and expedite social inclusion. Host to more than 150 students, the Centre also offers expressive art, theatre, ceramics, and wood workshops that help children develop skills and knowledge.

Mrs Wigemark talked with the Director Zulfo Ahmetovic, art teacher and therapist Danijel Garic and pedagogue Mersudin Kadric. The Centre Director Ahmetovic underlined the importance of early inclusion of children with disabilities in these types of activities and support, that eventually results in their integration in the educational activities.

Together with the Centre for children with disabilities Tisa in Bijelo Polje, in Montenegro, the Vladimir Nazor Centre is implementing a project “Social inclusion through work therapy”, funded by the EU from the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA) within the Cross-border cooperation programme between BiH and Montenegro. They are exchanging experiences from wood, candle and plaster workshops, and developing two new work therapies in bee-keeping and agriculture, that have proven to be very successful in work integration of people with disabilities.

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