In cooperation with Technical Education Teacher Bratislav Djordjevic from the Elementary school in Presevo, we came up with the idea to make traffic signs, all in order for children to learn their meaning more easily and quickly. On Monday, we returned from school, and during free activities, we worked with children on the development of traffic signs. The first day we painted them on cardboard and paper, and the next day they we talked to children about their meaning. We explained to them that the traffic signs must be respected; we must follow directions and warnings on traffic signs, and we should not remove from the position or demolish. Then we also painted the signs on the cardboard, and cutting them from paper. For children this workshop both educational and interesting. A teacher of technical education praised our work and said that signs will be exposed in the classroom at the school.

Caritas Psycho-Social Support Team accompanies students from the 5th to the 8th grade to school and helps the children get into the new environment more easily and learn new school subjects. Caritas team is also helping teachers and school leaders in their efforts to work with children refugees/migrants. Our goal is that children refugees/migrants feel as a part of that school community, and equal with other students.

The children in the school are showing visible progress, they take their school obligations seriously and several of them have been praised for their outstanding efforts, work and activity at classes. This makes Caritas team Presevo proud, because “our” children are among the best students among children in the camp, which means that our work was high quality. Caritas team managed to create a strong knowledge base for children, which now helps them adopt school knowledge. In addition, every day after school we help children in writing homework and learning new lessons.

The work of  the Caritas psycho-social support teams in Serbia is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Caritas Germany.