A PRESIDENT LEADS BY EXAMPLE
Reader's Digest Canada|May 2023
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Tina Knezevic
A PRESIDENT LEADS BY EXAMPLE

KINDNESS Last year, students at a school in Gostivar, North Macedonia, received quite a surprise when the country's leader showed up just before roll call.

After President Stevo Pendarovski found out that 11-year-old Embla Ademi, who has Down syndrome, was being teased by classmates and isolated from other children by teachers, he took matters into his own hands. The president, who took office in 2019, visited the family before school, offered Ademi some gifts and then walked with her, at times hand in hand, to school.

In a country where more than half of people believe that children with disabilities cannot be fully integrated into society and 81 percent believe that children with disabilities should be segregated in schools, the president's act was significant.

Pendarovski's office issued a statement that said children with atypical development "should not only enjoy the rights they deserve, but also feel equal and welcome at their school desks and in the schoolyard. It is our obligation as a state, but also as individuals, and the key element in this common mission is empathy."

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