For Immediate Release Children of all ethnicities in Kosovo
joined in Prizren on February 21 to celebrate International
Mother Language. The children participated in a bookmaking
workshop organized under the auspices of USAID's Basic Education
Program. Six different native languages were represented. The
bookmaking activity aimed to promote creativity and an enhanced
interest in literacy among primary school children by
demonstrating a number of bookbinding techniques, including
“pop-up” books. Students created books and filled them with
their own illustrations and text in their native tongues. “My
mother language is Croatian; I am learning to make books today
together with all these students, each of them speaking their
languages”, said Paška Jožič, a student from Janjevo,
Lipjan/Lipljan municipality. The workshop is the first of its
kind to be held in Kosovo, and it will kick off a series of
regional bookmaking workshops where teachers will be trained to
facilitate this process with their students. Back in