In honor of the Serbian illuminator Saint Sava, children from the diaspora and the region recorded the song and video entitled Negujmo Srpski Jezik (Let’s nurture the Serbian language), announced today the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.

Recording of the song involved children from the Republic of Srpska, as well as children of Serbian origin from Denmark, France, Italy and Slovenia.

All was realized thanks to the Children’s Cultural Center Belgrade and the Association of Music Teachers of Serbia, through implementation of the project Children to Serbia.

Music teacher and co-author of the project, Aleksandra Stanković, said that the Children to Serbia project included Serbian children from the region and the diaspora, united in choral singing with their peers from Serbia.

- At the time of the Covid 19 pandemic, when schools were closed throughout Europe and the region, ten children with teachers from Serbian supplementary schools in Denmark, France, Italy, Slovenia and schools from the Republic of Srpska were preparing the song Negujmo Srpski Jezik at online rehearsals - said Stanković.

She noted that the song Negujmo Srpski Jezik was the second song within the project Children to Serbia after the song Strujno Kolo (Circuit), staged on the National Science Day and Nikola Tesla’s birthday, in which children from Serbia participated with Serbian children from the USA and Canada.

Participants from the Republic of Srpska were children from elementary schools Sveti Sava and Aleksa Šantić from Banja Luka, and teachers Jelena Stanišić and Slavko Nikolić.

Source: RTRS