Acting Director of the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Arnaud Gouillon is on a two-day visit to Ljubljana where he attended the celebration of the religious holiday of Saint Nicholas and handed over a textbooks donation to the supplementary Serbian language school in Slovenia.

Gouillon expressed satisfaction at the fact that he began his first official visit on Saint Nicholas day, one of the most widely celebrated Serbian patron saint days, and that he handed over a donation of 1,500 textbooks and classic book sets to improve teaching in Serbian language primary schools in Slovenia.

He said that it was a good way to preserve the Cyrillic script and continue the activities that the Office has been carrying out for many years.

"We are here to help and show the care of the state of Serbia towards each and every member of the Serbian people, wherever they may be, primarily starting with the youngest who represent our future," Gouillon said at the Serbian Embassy in Ljubljana.

Gouillon held an online class in the digital classroom, in the presence of supplementary school teachers, and explained how he learned the Serbian language.

The supplementary school of the Serbian language in Slovenia has started working in the 2020/2021 school year and so far 60 teaching groups with 817 students have been formed.

The project was realized by the joint efforts of the competent institutions of Serbia, several Serb associations in Slovenia, Serbian Orthodox Church clergy, numerous individuals and interested parents.

In the course of 2020, the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region distributed more than 4,000 textbooks and educational publications in the Serbian language for the needs of supplementary Serbian language schools abroad.

During his visit to Ljubljana, Gouillon met with the Ambassador of Serbia to Slovenia Zorana Vlatkovic and visited the Orthodox Church of Sts.Cyril and Methodius and the Parish Home.