Forgotten Veles Albanians Leonora Jakupi doesn't know Albanian- at school only teaches Macedonian

The village of Starigrad of Veles. Here we will see how Albanian children cannot learn in their native language”.

In the village of Stari Grad of the Chasca municipality, 50 people live. At primary school in this village, they teach seven children. The learning process is conducted in Macedonian, though students are Albanians. Because of the lack of Albanian educators and Albanian books, students are forced to learn Macedonian. And because of this, children in this village are slowly forgetting the language of their mother.

At the entrance of the village we met Leonora. She's fourth grade. We asked her to recite a poem.

My name is Leonora Jakupi.

Show me a poem?

Albanian do they know a poem?

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We found Leonora having trouble with Albanian.

Then we met the residents. They confessed to their plight and the sorrow their children were unable to learn in their mother tongue.

All the children gathered together to share what they learned at school.

They had no books in Albanian.

With phone help, we found a few words in Albanian to prove that they can read Albanian.

I can't read.

No, he couldn't help it.

Unless they can read it, they can't even write it in Albanian.

These Albanian students, they know the letters, but only those in the Cyrillic alphabet”, Ensar Rushiti said.

Twenty-five, Grandma who's richer in the world”

What is this?

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Parents mostly have the fear of assimilation. They express concern about their children's condition.

At home they speak Macedonian, that it is easier for them, that they are learning in Macedonian. How come I don't want to learn Albanian, but there's nowhere. We've been told from the Chasca municipality that it can be done, but so far they haven't done anything. Chaska Mayor Goran Stojanovski asked parents to report to the municipality and express their problem and then take measures to resolve the problem. “In the village of Starin Grad knows that even there are Albanian children learning at the Petar Pop Arsov school in the village of Izvor, until today I have not received official request from my parents, so that these children can learn in Albanian”, said Goran Stojanovski Chairman of Chasca. The situation was the same in Karaslar village in Veles, where TV21 was 2 weeks ago. With years of authority, they have promised to change the situation, but what appears to be Albanian settlements such as Veles, Krushevo, the Peel Monastery have remained forgotten.