Croatia: Yellow Box

The yellow Box Awards are given as part of the comprehensive project Sustainable Croatia, and are supported by the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia and held under the auspices of the City of Zagreb. The awards were given on the basis of 17 sustainable development goals defined by the United Nations. Companies, individuals, associations and institutions and cities that have contributed the most to sustainability, development of the land of knowledge, environmental protection and human values in Croatia are awarded with the yellow frame.

The Award of CATEGORY 10: Reducing inequality was given to the Elementary school Orehovica – the first school in Croatia with the teaching of Romani language and culture. The small municipality of Orehovica in Međimurje County is the first and so far the only municipality in which the Roma minority is greater than 33 percent of the population and has achieved the right to equal official use of its language. It is the first school in Croatia that introduced the teaching of the Bajaj language according to model C – Romani language and culture, in which a large number of students are involved.

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