Members of NGO “Hajde da…” Group have developed competent program of psychological and educative workshops aimed to provide basic knowledge and experience in the field of tolerance for differences, as well as to support cooperation and mutual respect within class.
This expert program is a result of several years of implementation of workshop method with children from Belgrade primary schools and children from Roma Community Center “8.April” situated in Mali Mokri Lug.


Why in school?

Our previous experience of working in schools, where the children are mixed, showed that it is the most convenient milieu for efficient work on the topics of tolerance and diminishing of social distance between major and marginal groups – disregarding the type of minor group (refugee children, internally displaced children, Romany children or members of the group that is in any way different from children of the same age).

Only the heterogeneous group, such as group of school children, is suitable for discussing the differences as cause of division and rejection, but also the differences which improve cooperation and lead to acceptance, integration and respect for the other.

Therefore, next logical step of our program with children and young people in Roma Community Center “8. April” was leaving the center and continuing the work in the school, as immediate surrounding.



“Alphabet of Tolerance” is 12-workshop program created purposely to help children comprehend and make clear following topics: similarities and differences, stereotypes and prejudices, discrimination, violence and non-violence, tolerance, co-operation.

childreN Were wondering: *What features do we share, what are our differences? *What are prejudices? *How do I feel when I’m included in someone’s prejudice scheme? *What is discrimination? *Are there really various forms of violence? *What is tolerance? *How to accept differences with respect? *How can friendship preserve our differences, our peculiarities? *How can co-operation be learned?