Bogovadja: From asylum to the classroom

On Wednesday, January the 16th, for the first time in Serbia, the children asylum seekers from Bogovadja started to go to school. Jamal and Saleh are the twins from Somalia who became pupils of the first grade in the local elementary school in Bogovadja.

Two new school friends were greeted with joy among the other pupils of the school in Bogovadja.

After the winter break, on Wednesday, pupils of the mixed classes of the first and third grade of primary school in Bogovadja were awaited by a double surprise – they got a new teacher and two classmates. Twelve years old twins, Jamal and Saleh, from Mogadishu in Somalia, are the children asylum seekers who started to attend school in Serbia.