Vesna Dragicevic, librarian and mentor at the Secondary School Ivan Goran Kovacic - Good cooperation with colleagues is important for successful mentoring
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- Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:08
The project Increasing educational opportunities for Roma students and young Roma in the Western Balkans and Turkey funded by the European Union and implemented through the Roma Education Fund and the NGO Young Roma is of immeasurable importance for children who want success and progress. Knowing that they can get a job only with knowledge and perseverance, they try to seize their chances. They know that they are not alone on that path because they have the support of a mentor. This time the heroine of our story is sociology professor Vesna Dragicevic, a librarian and mentor at the Secondary School Ivan Goran Kovacic, who helps Roma high school students through our organization. The biggest challenge for Vesna is to enroll students and ensure their safe completion of schooling. However, three decades of work at the school guarantee good performance. She classifies herself as an old-fashioned worker, she approaches children both as a friend and as a collaborator, and often as a parent.
Hadzi Idrizi, electro installer in the Elko Tim Company – The best friend of the electricity
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- Friday, 07 August 2020 12:59
Having chosen a perspective profile of an electro installer, Hadzi Idrizi found employment in the company Elko Tim, where he did an internship through our organization last year as well. The work he performs through the NGO Young Roma includes electrical work on the installation, repair, testing, maintenance of electrical installations, equipping business and residential premises. Idrizi graduated from the High School of Electrical Engineering Vaso Aligrudic and is a beneficiary of our program Increasing access and participation of Roma students in secondary education and the transition to the labor market funded by the European Union, and implemented through the Roma Education Fund. Hadzi is happy to work in his field because that way he has more opportunities to gain experience that will surely benefit him. He would like to be given a chance to extend his contract with Elko Team, because he would achieve the goal from childhood. He told us that as a boy he always fixed things in case of a breakdown and that this profession was in some way predestined for him. Idrizi hopes that thanks to his longer work engagement, he will be able to help his family, and he would also like to enroll at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Milanka Okuka, pedagogue and mentor at the Secondary Vocational School in Bar: Mentoring support is a form of correcting inequality
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2020 12:42
For pedagogue Milanka Okuka, a responsible and complex job of a mentor, whose abilities largely determine the further educational, but also the life path of Roma students, is a form of correcting inequality. Social, cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers are disappearing in her office at the Secondary Vocational School in Bar - differences are being erased. Knowing that conversation is perhaps the only link between people, the pedagogue from Bar connects all students in a creative way. She is wearing their shoes through sessions and workshops, providing them with motivation and advice on how to overcome any problem. With a warm word and a smile, she admits that nothing is unsolvable. That is why the fact that all ten enrolled Roma students finished high school arrived as a valuable reward. We talked with Milanka about the humanitarian vocation she performs, the challenges and prejudices she faces, and we scratched up some other important topics when it comes to the education of young children.
Enisa Ademaj i Sadija Ibrahimi: Don’t get married early, get education and believe in your dreams
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- Thursday, 30 July 2020 11:05
Enisa and Sadija have recipe for dolce vita. These two talented confectioners will sweeten your bitter day. In every chocolate, Raffaello ball, hazelnut praline, hides the touch of love.
The graduates of the School for trading, tourism, and hospitality Sergije Stanic delighted the guests of the hotel Podgoricawith their skills, showing their knowledge from the school. In Titeks, they diligently made delicious desserts that reached various pastry shops in the city.
Enisa and Shadija told us about their vocation, creativity, and the opportunities it offers, life behind the cake, schooling, socializing, plans for the future. Both would be happiest if they got a job as soon as possible. They say that they would sweeten their own, but also the days of everyone who tastes their desserts. That is why we want them to fulfill their goal as soon as possible and take their place in the kingdom of sweet tastes!
Irijana Rizvanovic: Languages are a window to the world
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- Friday, 10 July 2020 13:38
Twenty-one-year-old Irijana Rizvanovic from Bijelo Polje, with a summer address in Podgorica, is a program assistant in our organization.
From September, she will be an English language student at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Montenegro in Niksic. Irijana, whose name means peace, already has two diplomas - Vocational High School and Electro-Economics, and we are sure she will become the owner of at least one more. We talked to her about her involvement in the NGO Young Roma the long road to education, travel, and plans for the future.
