This year, thanks to a donation from the Canton of Sarajevo, the association provided laptops for the most successful pupils and students who returned with their parents and live in the Republika Srpska entity.
In the premises of the Mothers’ Movement Association of the Srebrenica and Žepa enclaves in Sarajevo, 20 laptops were distributed on Thursday to pupils and students who are successful in school and come from socially disadvantaged families, Anadolu Agency (AA) reports.
This year, thanks to a donation from the Canton of Sarajevo, the association provided laptops for the most successful pupils and students who returned with their parents and live in the Republika Srpska entity.
The vice-president of the Movement of Mothers of the Srebrenica enclave and Žepa Association, Kada Hotić, said that the donated laptops are a form of stimulation for pupils and students from Srebrenica to continue their education.
“In this way we want to help those children. It is not easy to allocate funds and buy a laptop for a child. There are people who have two or three children that they are educating. We try to help our children, regardless of where they live, who are displaced,” said Hotić and continued:
“It is also a stimulus for them to learn, so that they are not neglected. We need the youth, if they leave, nobody needs BiH. Only educated people will succeed for themselves, their parents and BiH. They wanted us to be gone, we will fight for us to be there. Our children are not vigilantes, but they try to overcome it with their knowledge.”
Elvir Orić, a student in the third grade of the Hairdressing School in Srebrenica, said that this type of support means a lot to him and thanked the Association and the Government of Sarajevo Canton for the donation.
This 19-year-old is planning to continue his professional training in order to try to open his own hair salon in Srebrenica.
“There is nothing in Srebrenica. But it is nice to live there and I would never leave Srebrenica. That’s where I grew up and that’s where I’ll stay, at least try. I hope I will succeed,” said Orić.
Mirsada Sinanović from Srebrenica, a second-year student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Tuzla, pointed out that the donation in the form of a laptop means a lot to her because of her further education and future employment.
“My family returned to Srebrenica in 2002 and now they are engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. I finished school there and had to go to Tuzla to study, but, of course, I would like to return to Srebrenica and find a job there,” said Sinanović.
Source: aa.com.tr
