The village of Bozinovici near Grebak has only one schoolboy, Eldin Guta. Every day, this 12-year-old has to travel more than 20 kilometers to get to school in Ustikolina.
While his peers spend their free time playing and hanging out, Eldin doesn’t have that privilege. Part of his time is spent on the way to the house located on the slopes of Jahorina, at 1.226 meters above sea level, and the rest to help his parents and finish school obligations.
The house of Guta can be reached by asphalt, then by macadam, and finally by a bad forest road.
Difficult road to the classroom and back
“I don’t know what we will do if it snows. It won’t be possible to pass this way, which means Eldin won’t be able to go to school. It’s not easy, the child gets up at 5:30 a.m., so in Jabuka he waits for a van for half an hour, then in Ustikolina for half an hour or an hour to start school, but they always let him in so he doesn’t freeze. And then he goes back, again to Jabuka, and with the neighbor transporting him he gets home around 3:30 p.m., we always wait for him in front of the house, ” noted Zenid.
Eldin’s parents Zenid and Adila are unemployed. They were engaged in agriculture and thus acquired the basic conditions for life and Eldin’s education. From the beginning, it was difficult for both them and Eldin, but they did not give up.
He learned the letters in a hut without electricity
The boy, who will turn 12 on November 10th, learned the first letters in a hut without electricity, at a time when his parents, returnees, did not have adequate accommodation, electricity, or water. Today, they are proud of the fact that Elda is an excellent student, regardless of the difficult school conditions.
”Now I have friends, new kids and a new environment so I get a little used to it, but I like going to school the most, ” Eldin told.
However, when the winter conditions do not allow it, because in Bozinovici the snow can fall up to a meter, Eldin is forced to stay at home, in a village without his friends.
”Telecom gave me a tablet, and from school they let me have 700 megabytes a day internet so they can send me homework,” the boy stressed.
School and learning are his challenge and chance. Without expensive laptops and social networks, he spends time in nature with pets, two dogs. He likes books, and these days he received as a gift one of his favorite Sunny class (Suncani razred), whose author is Slavko Klisura.
E.Dz.
Source: Klix.ba
