‘8th September' Kindergarten in Dimitrovgrad is an independent, children upbringing and education institution engaged in providing systematic care, as well as health and social protection and children education and upbringing prior to primary school.
The roots of nursery schooling in Dimitrovgrad municipality are dating back to 1915 when a pre-school playgroup was founded. In the school year 1932/1933, at the State-owned People's School in Czaribrod there was a pre-school playgroup in the building which was called ‘The Old Sokolana' (recreational facility building).
War conditions shortly interrupted the work of the kindergarten in the spring of 1941, however, it was soon re-established. During the war, there was a pre-school playgroup with up to 35 starters every year. In 1944, the war having ended, the kindergarten resumed its work as a part of the primary school with two pre-school playgroups a year –in Serbian and Bulgarian, respectively.
In 1966, Dimitrovgrad Municipal Council reached a decision to establish a Daily Children Nursing Institution, which commenced work in the newly built facilities in 1969.
From that moment onwards, children upbringing and education has effected permanent expansion, taking into account both network of facilities and percentage increase of children taken in by one of the offered pre-schooling modes. In 1982, a pre-school playgroup commenced work in the old primary school building in the village of Željuša, for the needs of Željuša, Beleš i Gojin Do local communities. Due to the increasing needs of the local communities for institutional children care, in 1983 a new building was erected and put to use a year later.
In addition to the fact that this institution permanently endeavours to prepare new legal propositions, new programme basis, improve children care conditions in all pre-school playgroup modes, it also attempts to rise the percentage of enrolled children.
The kindergarten often organizes festivities which are always a joyful experience for the locals, such as: ‘Games without Fences', ‘The Children Happening', as well as masked balls and holiday pageants.
For its modest share in the improvement of its activity the kindergarten has received many acknowledgements, among which are: a plaque – awarded in 1987 by the Assembly of the Republic Union of Children Unions of Serbia for the percentage of enrolled six-year-olds, diplomas awarded in 1979 and 1987 by Dimitrovgrad Municipal Council, both for achieved results in the area of social child care.
