Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home
Resources

OSCE Chairperson Lajčák visits the Institute for Rehabilitation of Children and Youth

27 June 2019
  • (l-r) The Director of the Institute for Rehabilitation of Children and Youth, Fatmir Ejupi, and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, making opening remarks, Skopje, 19 June 2019. (OSCE/Riste Zmejkoski)
    Photo details
  • (L) Biljana Sterjadovska Stojchevska, Grant Co-ordinator, and students present their experiences during the Building Bridges activities, Skopje, 19 June 2019. (OSCE/Riste Zmejkoski)
    Photo details
  • Director Ejupi (l) expresses gratitude to Chairperson Lajčák for OSCE support to the Institute, Skopje, 19 June 2019. (OSCE/Riste Zmejkoski)
    Photo details
  • Director Ejupi (l) presents photographs made by students and teachers from the Institute and the partner school during their joint activities, Skopje, 19 June 2019. (OSCE/Riste Zmejkoski)
    Photo details
  • Director Ejupi, Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák, and Ambassador Clemens Koja, Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, with students from the Institute and partner schools, Skopje, 19 June 2019. (OSCE/Riste Zmejkoski)
    Photo details

During his visit to North Macedonia on 19 June 2019, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Miroslav Lajčák visited the Institute for Rehabilitation of Children and Youth in Skopje. The Institute had received a grant from the OSCE Mission’s Building Bridges programme to support work on the inclusion of youth with disabilities and the integration of students with different background. Students from the Institute and its partner, the primary school Rajko Zinzifov, told the Chairperson-in-Office about their positive experiences participating in activities with students from different ethnic backgrounds and students with disabilities. 

The Building Bridges Fund was established in 2014 in response to the persisting trend of communal separation that is reinforced by education system fully separated along linguistic lines. The project has been supported by Austria, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United States.