Civil Society
 

Christmas lunch for 500 children

On 7 January this year, for the first time the First Children Embassy organized a Christmas Lunch for 500 children from all over Macedonia at the Alexander Palace Hotel in Skopje. There, the children from the institutions and the associations that cooperate with the First Children Embassy had hunch together, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, regardless of their nationality or religion, since there were Macedonian, Turkish, Albanian and Jewish children. Thus, the old idea of the First Children Embassy was accomplished and the goal of their motto “All ideals in the world cannot make up for the tears of a child” was realized, eventually.

The First Children Embassy has existed for nine years and its offices are located in Prilep. This is the first time they have organized such a lunch for the parentless children and children whose fathers died in the military conflict in 2001. There were also children who suffer cerebral paralyses, intellectually and physically disabled children, hard of hearing or deaf children.

As Damjan Stojanovski, First Children Embassy Secretary General said, the goal of this megalomaniac activity was to present a cosmopolitan, or, European Macedonia. The general patron of the event was the Ohrid and Macedonian Archbishop Stefan and the lunch was blessed by the metropolitan Metodij.

 

S.K.