The spring gathering with our youngest partners, high school students and members of the Youth Panel for Equality, began with the “Circle of Tolerance” workshop.

Some of them had been with us before, while others joined us today for the first time. Among them was Commissioner Milan Antonijević, who emphasized in the discussion that discrimination at school is not something that should be tolerated or ignored, because a reaction (or the lack of one) can change many things.

Through an exercise in stepping into the assigned roles of different children, the students considered how personal characteristics, as well as other circumstances in which someone lives, can shape the development of a person’s life path in youth. Our colleagues Ivana Filipov and Miljana Borić helped them in this, reminded them of the various forms in which discrimination manifests itself and pointed out the impact of prejudices that we all have to a greater or lesser extent.

This was followed by the exercise “One Step Closer to Understanding” with Professor Zorica Šćekić from the Dental Technician School, who presented the importance of the inclusion of persons with disabilities and the challenges they face during education, as well as later in life.