Last weekend, children and adults in Ćićevac were able to use a unique opportunity to talk to books. The “Living Library” project was presented in our city, and a blind girl, a military invalid, a member of the Serbian national team in wheelchair basketball and a protector of animal rights – books in it – delighted their readers.

A large number of our fellow citizens joined the living library and enjoyed a half-hour conversation with the book he chose at the entrance to the library. Some of them read several books, because they couldn’t decide on one, just like in a real library!

In a conversation with one of the books, we learned that Serbia has 80 registered wheelchair basketball players, that the most important thing is to fight and not give up on quality of life, and that everything is possible, even to fight with your own psyche, when you become disabled, circumstances. The young representative of Serbia in basketball is full of life energy, smiling and cheerful and will remain in our memory for a long time.

After Ćićevac, the Living Library continues to be realized in other cities in Serbia.

The Living Library in Ćićevac was realized in cooperation with the association “Okular” with the association “Hajde da…” from Belgrade and the “Youth Initiative for Human Rights” from Bosnia and Herzegovina, through the joint regional program of the United Nations “Dialogue for the Future”. /Sanja Ivanović/

The original article is published in the school online digital newspaper ĐAČKA ISKRA.