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BIHAĆ, August 14 (FENA) - The organization "Save the Children" and the partner association "Žene sa Une" (Women from the Una River region), after the research and analysis of the reasons for children’s early leaving of school, and children at risk of early school dropout announced a call to local civil society organizations for awarding of small grants.
These are grants for the development, establishment and promotion of innovative solutions for providing services to children who have left or are at risk of early abandonment of further education.
“We are in the second year of the project when, after having conducted a comprehensive local investigation, we have found the causes and this Public Call has offered local civil society organizations to create potential solutions. We really want to create local services that will be targeted at children in vulnerable categories,” said Aida Behrem, Executive Director of this women's association.
Expected results of implementation of small grants include development and application of local support services aimed at preventing early school dropout and integration into the education of children who have already left school in Bihać, Bijeljina and Brčko District areas.
She added that another goal of the project was to determine the cause of the abandonment of education and to make it possible to access the data on the extent of the problem.
The project will be implemented also in the Brcko District and Bijeljina area, with the partnership of the Vermont Youth Center, and for these purposes in the three local areas, 20,000 euros are secured.
Grants are awarded in the total value of 60,000 euros, 20,000 euros for each of the three areas - Bihać, Bijeljina and Brčko District.
This activity is being conducted under the project „Bright4All – Basic Right to Education for All Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina” funded by the European Union with €350,000.
The project Bright4All – Basic Right to Education for All Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to identify the causes of school dropout, offer data on the size of this problem in five target regions (Una-Sana Canton, Tuzla Canton - FBiH, Prijedor and Bijeljina - RS and BiH Brčko District), warn as to the absence of a systemic approach to this problem and initiate systemic solutions to prevent early school dropout among children from vulnerable groups.
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