Gouillon: Children from Kosovo's enclaves at the sea for the first time

For the twelfth year in a row, the French humanitarian organization "Solidarity for Kosovo" is organizing a summer vacation at the sea for 42 children from Kosovo's enclaves.

Boys and girls from Veliko Ropotovo, Ranilug, Kamenica, and Gorazdevac are staying in Tivat, where they arrived yesterday after a 14-hour journey. Here they saw the sea for the first time in their lives and discovered the magic of swimming.

"This year has been very stormy in Kosovo and Metohija, with many attacks and threats against the Serbs, and that's why children need a vacation away from a particularly difficult everyday life. Here, for the first time in their lives, the little ones will enjoy their vacation in a quiet place and feel free and safe. Their happiness to be on vacation for seven days is as great as I am happy to be friends again with children and companions from Kosovo and Metohija, where I have not been able to enter for more than four years due to the ban of the Pristina authorities," Arnaud Gouillon, President humanitarian organization "Solidarity for Kosovo" said.

In addition to the beach, where they go every day, children learn to swim and engage in sports and artistic activities. This program, which will last 7 days, will be enriched by a Bay of Kotor cruise and visits to famous places on the coast of Montenegro.

This project has been implemented since 2012 in cooperation with the Eparchy of Raska and Prizren, which selected the children according to social criteria.