Bulgarian children in Serbia once again have their own newspaper

The first issue of the newspaper Children’s Dreams was published at the end of last year in Serbia. Thus, the child audience of the Bulgarian community in the country once again has its own printed publication after a break of more than a decade.

The initiative to create the newspaper comes from the National Council of the Bulgarian National Minority, with the support of Novo Bratstvo, and aims to encourage reading, creativity, and education in the mother tongue among the youngest members of the community. The print run of the first issue is 1,000 copies.

The newspaper Children’s Dreams is planned to be published four times a year and distributed free of charge to primary school students and preschool children in Bosilegrad, Tsaribrod, and other settlements with a compact Bulgarian population.

Journalists, teachers of the Bulgarian language, primary school teachers, and preschool educators are involved in the creation of the publication. Its pages will feature children’s drawings and texts, works by authors who write for children, school news, as well as materials related to education, nature, sports, and culture.

The founders of the children’s magazine emphasize that the main mission of Children’s Dreams is to promote the use of the Bulgarian language in an accessible and appealing way, which will further contribute to preserving the cultural identity and spiritual values of the Bulgarian community in Serbia, BTA reports.

Edited by Diana Tsankova
English version: R. Petkova