On 29 July 2023, Lopare held a Business Forum to present this municipality’s good experiences in cooperating with the diaspora and to announce new investments in the homeland by people from the diaspora. The head of Lopare, Rado Savić, says that this municipality has 20 business projects implemented by the diaspora, three business ideas have already been realized this year, and new investments were discussed at the Business Forum.
Another school year, filled with various activities until the very end, has ended in satisfaction with students’ achievements, collaboration with parents, the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, the Serbian Orthodox Church and numerous associations. The first online meeting of students of supplementary classes in Serbian from Kranj and students of Sveti Sava Elementary School from Bijeljina was held within the Identity Serbia project. The motto of the meeting was ‘Get to know me to understand me’.
Serbs from the Republic of Srpska and Serbia are not each other’s diaspora, nor are they separated by the Drina, said the minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia in charge of relations with the diaspora, Đorđe Milićević, and pointed to the parallel pressure on the Serbian people.
Addressing the teachers posted to Serbian-language schools abroad, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dačić, said that 8,000 Serbian children attended classes in Serbian in the diaspora.
Last week, Stuttgart, Germany, hosted this city’s six-day Summer Festival, the most visited event organized by the Forum of Cultures, the umbrella migrant organization. The traditional and cultural diversity has made this Summer Festival of the city of Stuttgart widely known, so guests from other German cities are not rare. All the employees of the Forum of Cultures contributed to this
Almost half of Lopare population, more than 6,000, live and work abroad. The first of them had set off abroad half a century ago, but they have not forgotten their homeland and now invest the money earned in Western Europe in its development. Many residents have found employment in their hometown owing to newly founded companies, and opening of new production plants has been announced. Intensive cooperation with
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, received Serbian children from the region in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic. – Thank you very much for being here today, this is your house and you are not guests here, you are at your own. This is your country and it will always welcome you with open arms – said Vučić. He told the children
The traditional cauldron feast opened the Days of the Diaspora in Priboj near Lopare, organized for the twelfth time by the municipality of Lopare and the Association of Majevicans in Switzerland. The Head of Lopare municipality, Rado Savić, said that this year’s Diaspora Days were organized under the slogan Homeland in the Heart, and that they had started with a magnificent gathering and a traditional cauldron feast in Priboj
Karlsruhe recently hosted Games without Borders, organized by the parents’ council of the Serbian supplementary school, teacher Slavica Stupar from the German province of Baden-Württemberg, and supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in Stuttgart. Students and parents from Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Gaggenau, Rastatt, Bruchsal and Pforzheim gathered under the title We Play, Socialize and Nurture the Serbian Language. Welcoming
The Serbian Heritage Academy of Canada marked a jubilee – 40 years of existence and work, by presenting this institution’s monograph in its premises. A book by the poet Radovan Gajić was also promoted there. The Serbian Heritage Academy hosted a promotion of the book titled Gemblaši (Gamble Street residents) by Radovan Gajić. On the same evening, a monograph of the Serbian Heritage Academy in Canada was presented on the occasion of
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