Children's Travelling Folk Library in the Village
Our project goal is to enrich children's understanding and appreciation of folk music as a vital part of their cultural identity. For that reason we have built engaging activities that have already proven their impact on children from past activities. With our approach we will continue to impart knowledge that kids start to recognise and appreciate as their own.
As an organisation we are driven by our values to educate and enrich the younger generations by working with them closely and inspiring them by presenting our cultural values and heritage. This is significantly harder in rural areas of North Macedonia, because access to such educational opportunities is very limited. A different problem we are facing is that there is a lack of interest among youth in folk music, and we are an organisation that makes efforts to change this narrative. Our goal right now is to work especially with rural children.
As we are actively working in this field, we are striving to make changes and improve them and redirect them towards our rich and beautiful Macedonian folk music tradition, making it accessible to all, despite their urban or rural upbringing. Moreover, children's literature lacks engaging content related to folk music or Macedonian folk songs, which leads to a natural kind of boredom and oblivion among younger generations.
For this reason, we have decided to make this project "Children's travelling folk library in the village" and make a greater impact on children.