On the behalf of the Committee, Chairman Stefanovic presented Anton Skala elementary school with computer equipment, two computers and two printers, and, on the occasion, stated that the entire society should show solidarity and invest as much as possible into schools like this one, so that children with developmental disabilities could receive the best education available, which would in turn enable their inclusion into society. The Principal, Igor Raicevic, thanked the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the National Assembly for contributing to the improvement of the children’s learning conditions, so that they might develop their potentials to the best of their ability.
In the course of the visit to the Children’s Shelter, Chairman Stefanovic presented it with a donation of 75 children’s jackets, for ages one to 19. He commended the efforts of the organisation which receives as many as 60 children a day and provides them with clothes, food as well as psychological support and educative services. Stefanovic stressed that children living or working on the streets need to be included into systemic and regular education, add that by adopting the appropriate legislation, the Committee and the National Assembly would work on improving their position in society. Milica Djordjevic from the Youth Integration Center, which had opened the Children’s Shelter, stressed that children living and working on the streets are most often invisible to the society and this visit shows the support the state gives to the improvement of their position and status.
The members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child have agreed at the sitting on 18 December that the donations the National Assembly had received should be presented to these two institutions.