While there is constant talk about how Serbian villages are becoming increasingly deserted, numerous positive examples from the field refute this claim. The village of Vitanovac near Kraljevo is teeming with life, and the school is full because it has a total of 200 pupils, including preschoolers.
One of the most beautiful examples comes to us from the home of Krstomir Stevanovic, who is 25 years old, already has three children, and is successfully engaged in agriculture.
“We are engaged in pig farming, we have over 20 pigs and we are satisfied. There is a lot of work, it’s not easy, but the fact is that whoever wants to live from their own honest work in the village can achieve that. My wife and I married young; she is from a neighboring village. We live and work for our children, we fight, and I have never regretted not going to the city, but staying on my father’s and grandfather’s land instead,” Krsto told RINA.
However, he adds that precisely because there are many children in Vitanovac and surrounding villages, it is essential to arrange facilities for them, such as a physical education hall within the primary school.
“There really are a lot of children growing up healthy and happy here, but they need some content when it comes to sports, to have a place to train and socialize. I hope that the state will recognize our need and help us,” points out this hardworking young host.
Krstomir and his family were visited today by the Minister for Public Investment, Darko Glisic, who was delighted that someone so young has both formed a family and is engaged in such difficult work.
“Young people like this are an example and a role model for those of the same age. How one should work, respect, form a family, and how through work and commitment, one can create and live in a good and beautiful way. A happy house with three little ones already. They do not intend to stop; they want to expand their family further. We talked with him and his neighbors about what the problem is in Vitanovac. In Vitanovac, we identified one thing that the locals agreed upon, and that is the physical education hall that should be built in Vitanovac, which would help not only Vitanovac but also the villages that gravitate towards it to be a gathering place, and so that the children, of whom there are many, thank God, have a place where they could do their physical education and spend their free time, having various types of activities—sports, cultural, and every other kind,” said Glisic.
He emphasized that they immediately proceeded to solve that problem.
“We immediately notified our engineers in the Ministry to come to the site as early as tomorrow or the day after, to look at that facility and see what we can do and how we can help people so that this job is finished as soon as possible, and that problem is resolved,” said the minister.
After Vitanovac, Glisic visited the village of Cukojevac, where he also spoke with the locals about the problems they face.
“Water supply here is something that is the most pronounced hardship for the people who live here. There are many people here engaged in animal husbandry who have a lot of livestock, and the problem is water. Around 140 million dinars are the funds necessary to finish everything that constitutes the water supply project for this part of Kraljevo, and I hope that in the very near future, in the next week or two, we will reach a solution on how to do that job and solve that big problem for the people who live here,” says Glisic.
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Source: RINA; Photo: RINA