PALILULA HELPS SCOUTS WORK

18.11.2009.

The agreement on cooperation programme with the Scouts Union of City of Nis and scout squads `Kralj Petar Prvi`, Djuka Dinic and `Skolski Brod Jadran` and Palilula Municipality was signed in municipal building. These all scout squads are active at the territory of Palilula. Milan Djurdjevic, president of Palilula Municipal Assembly and Slobodan Tepavac, leader of Scouts union of the City of Nis signed this agreement. The objective of this agreement, as the participants of this gathering said is `contribution to education of young people through system of values, based on scouts behaviour rules – to help the creating of one new world where people are fully individuals and have constructive role in society`. `This support is part of Strategy of Palilula Municipality to provide better conditions for activities to organizations that work with children and young people, and also over the partnership on those projects to provide a sort of financing of their activities`-emphasized Djurdjevic. `We plan creating new ideas for activities in the sphere of environment protection in Memorial park `Bubanj` with our scouts`. `Mission of being scout is to contribute education of young people over the system of values based on scouts` Pledge and Law. Our activity in future period is directed to connecting our squads with local organs of authorities, therefore  the signing of this agreement in Palilula very significant step forward and example to other communities`-said Momcilo Petkovic, leader of Scouts Union of Serbia.

Palilula Municipality will support in material and technical ways, certain actions , weekly educational activities with children: learning about nature, nature rules and laws, first aid, orientation, topography, physical and health education, rules of being out in the woods, fire…all those activities that contribute to inclusion of young people in the process of informal education during whole period of their development. Dalibor Rakic –Kralj Petar Prvi, Momir Jezdimirovic-Djuka Dinic and Ratomir Petkovic-Skolski brod Jadran leaders and heads spoke about all these things that make true scouts activities.

Scouts squads of the City of Nis is social-educational organization of children, young people and grown ups and today is one of the best organized unions in Serbia. `The tradition of scouts in this area is very long, since 1911`-reminded Slobodan Tepavac. `We expect that our Nis and Palilula Municipality will participate in celebration of significant jubilee of our city - 100 years of scouts organization and our association`.