Yesterday, after more than eight months working on its preparation in Augsburg, in the German Bavarian province, a supplementary school in Bosnian language was founded.
Amir Medić, Mina Imširović and Sabina Omeragić were elected as the school coordinators and the supplementary courses in the mother tongue for children of B&H citizens who live in Augsburg and its area will start in September this year, when the regular German school courses usually start. It will be carried out according to the curriculum and the textbook for education of relocated children of the Department of Civil Affairs of B&H.
The meeting in Augsburg was attended by the parents of students and B&H activists from this city, representatives of The General Consulate of B&H in Munich, representatives of the B&H association called ‘Zmaj’, B&H jamaat, The Community of B&H Associations and Citizens in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia, The Association of B&H Supplementary Schools in Germany.
There was also a lecture held on the meeting, about the need to preserve the mother tongue and the identity of B&H citizens around the world.
“Preservation of the mother tongue and identity of B&H citizens around the world and also their connection to the homeland is very important to our country. The work that has been done on that field by the activists of The Association of B&H Supplementary Schools is significant and deserves lots of praise. I congratulate all the activists and I hope to see Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country standing behind this significant project and supporting it, so that young generations can preserve our language and connection with the homeland”, B&H Consul in Munich, Haris Baždarević, pointed out.
The Association of B&H Supplementary Schools President and a former Consul General of B&H in Stuttgart Haris Halilović pointed out that a mother tongue is one of the main foundation stones of identity of all people, including the people of B&H. “Language is one of its main tissues. History has shown that the extinction of a language would usually be followed by the extinction of the people who have been using it. That danger threatens to more than two millions of B&H citizens living outside its borders”, Halilović warned.
(Source: novovrijeme)
