As Morski writes, Split-Dalmatia County has a long tradition of helping those who are the most in need, and this Petrinja school is no exception.
”Let’s remember how we renovated the building of the City Administration in Vukovar and its associated road. Just like that, we’ll help out here too because you never know when trouble may come knocking on your own door. We decided to go to the Petrinja school because in our county we mostly care about young people and rural areas. The goal is for the students to be in their school again in the new school year,” said prefect Blazenko Boban, who handed the school’s principal right computers for the school following the visit.
School principal Valentina Vujnovic is happy that students might be able to return to the renovated Petrinja school at the beginning of the next school year:
”We renovated the school last year, our county has invested a lot of money in energy renovation and in the renovation of the kitchen so that students have hot meals. I was at school when the earthquake happened. There are 81 students here in this school, 15 students in the regional school and there are 34 employees. Prefect Boban called me two days ago and pleasantly surprised me with his offer to help and I’d like to sincerely thank him and the county for thinking of us,” she stated.
Sanja Miokovic, Head of the Department for Projects and Investments of Sisak-Moslavina County also commented on the condition of educational facilities in the affected area:
”Nine buildings are currently completely unusable. District schools are available but they don’t have the capacities and they can only accommodate a small number of students. Schools suffered the most in the Petrinja area, a couple of them were quite badly damaged and must be demolished and there’s no possibility of reconstruction. They also include sports halls used by schools and other associations, so the damage is huge. The staticians are on the ground, collecting data that we’ll have by the end of the week so that we can start with the first phase.
Prefect Boban was accompanied by Tomislav Djonlic, Head of the Board for Education, Culture, Technical Culture and Sports, and Damir Gabric, Head of the Board for Croatian Veterans, Civil Protection and Human Rights.
After the tour and the agreement to rebuild the Petrinja school, they also visited the Red Cross to provide support to all of the volunteers, members of the rescue service, firefighters and others who are selflessly engaged in helping all of the injured.
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