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Education Coordination Meeting |
EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING
6 September 2001
Minutes
1. Introduction of participants, informing about the
current situation.
The school year will start as planned on Monday, 10th
of September 2001. Available data about the conditions of the school buildings
in the war affected areas, about the number of IDP children, refugee children
or children who are currently in war affected areas, are currently being
collected.
2. Identification of the main problems / data about
the IDPs / data about the refugees.
The current situation in Kumanovo, Dojran, Veles, Bitola,
Ohrid and Debar - where most of the IDPs are currently located - is being
assessed by CRS.
It has been proposed that Albanian speaking refugee
children who have been settled in Katlanovo should go to PS Bratstvo Edinstvo
in Konjare village. Macedonian speaking children from grade I to IV should
go to PS Koco Racin in Katlanovo village, and from grade V to VIII in
the same school in Petrovec. Unfortunately the citizens from Katlanovo
village are currently preventing the IDP children from entering the school
in their village, so most probably the children will be transferred to
either Petrovec or Konjare. The school directors are willing to cooperate
with decisions of the Ministry of Education and Science.
The grade I-IV refugee children settled in the Suto
Orizari camp will go to school in the camp, and the older children will
attend PS 26 Juli (for Albanian speaking) and PS Braka Ramiz i Hamid (for
Macedonian speaking). If security problems arise the children from PS
26 Juli may be transferred to Makarenko Evening School.
There is a concern that IDPs currently settled in collective
centers may be further displaced, as these facilities will soon be needed
by their main (original?) users.
Until the school year starts, precise data about the
number and location of affected children will not be available.
The international community once again stresses
its readiness to help the Government and is waiting for further data from
the Ministry of Education and Science.
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