Lithuania

Zipio Draugai has been running in Lithuania since 2000, and has grown from a small pilot study in the capital, Vilnius, to become a national programme, with classes running in kindergartens in all ten counties.

It was introduced through the collaboration of two agencies – the Education Development Centre, attached to the Ministry of Education and Science, and Lithuania’s first NGO, the Youth Psychological Aid Centre. Since then, a new non-profit agency has been set up to run the programme, Vaiko Labui (‘for the sake of the child’).

Lithuania’s second largest chain of supermarkets, IKI, is a generous sponsor of the programme.

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