The Family Caravan effort by Eurochild member NGO Parents (NVU Roditelji) collected proof on the absence of pediatricians, in addition to psychologists, speech therapists and unique education instructors, the overbooked schools and kindergartens and the inadequate variety of instructors throughout Montenegro.
From September to December 2023, the organisation checked out all 25 towns in Montenegro and discussed early youth advancement rights with households and collected moms and dads’ issues. Moms and dads likewise had the chance to speak to physicians of the Montenegrin Institute of Public Health about health, early advancement, immunisation, healthy nutrition and comparable early youth concerns.
When it concerns health care, the issues are especially determined in Northern towns, in which kids need to take a trip to surrounding towns or await the scheduled day when the physician pertains to their town to be taken a look at.
The effort belonged to the “Community Mobilization for Immunization and Optimal Development in Early Childhoodtask in cooperation with UNICEF, with the financial backing of the Delegation of the European Union in Montenegro.
Check out the primary effort findings
Health care:
- Moms and dads from 19 towns acknowledged insufficient health care for kids as an essential issue, due to absence of pediatricians in the regional Primary health care.
- Moms and dads from 17 towns mentioned that there is an issue with inadequate number of expert employees in the regional Primary health care.
- In 5 Northern towns there are no pediatricians, which is a long-lasting issue and there is inadequate of them in 14 out of 25 Montenegrin cities.
- Due to the inadequate variety of pediatricians, there is likewise an issue with immunization and routine organized assessments.
- The moms and dads likewise specified that physician supply them with inconsistent, typically unfavorable info concerning vaccines.
Education:
- In 10 out of 25 towns, moms and dads think that kids do not have conditional kindergartens and school centers. Overbooking in the pre-school organizations in the Northern towns is among the crucial issues. A few of the moms and dads’ objections likewise associated with the inadequate variety of mentor assistants.
- According to moms and dads, the building of brand-new kindergartens in the towns of Ulcinj and Bar, in addition to schools in the towns of Tivat, Herceg Novi and Podgorica, is urgently required.
- A few of the pushing issues are the lack of nursery groups in the kindergartens in the towns of Šavnik and Andrijevica and not a single practical gym in Andrijevica, while in the town of Petnjica, kids can remain just till twelve noon in the kindergarten, which belongs to the main school.
Based upon all the findings from the Family Caravan effort, the NGO Parents, as the voice of the moms and dads’ neighborhood in Montenegro, will in the coming duration supporter a lot more highly for fixing recognized issues, specifically in the field of health and education, That all kids have sufficient conditions for growing up