United States Agency for Global Media

Maja Nikolić’s documentary Each Morning, New Fear portrays the ordeal of children from the Bosnian village of Potocani who set out before dawn every morning to walk seven kilometers of gravel road through the woods to reach the nearest school in the city of Zvornik.
In the documentary, Nikolić shadows the children on their arduous trek, speaking to them about how the journey impacts their learning. She interviews parents and school administrators, who blame the lack of transportation on political elites who are indifferent to the problems of Bosnians. Just days after the video was published on the Balkan Service’s website, a group of Bosnians living in Switzerland donated a van that is now used to transport the children to school.
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