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Serbia. Zitkovac is a village in Central Serbia situated in the municipality of Aleksinac, in the Nišava District. « Vuk Karadzic » Elementary School. Classroom. 5th Grade. Music class. The school’s students are from Serbian and Romani ethnicity. The boy with the blue flute is Roma, all other pupils are Serbian. The flute is a wind instrument made from a tube with holes along it that are stopped by the fingers or keys, held vertically or horizontally so that the player's breath strikes a narrow edge. A flute is an aerophone that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening and is categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist. The Romani (also spelled Romany) or Roma, Roms or Gypsies, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group. The Pestalozzi Children's Foundation (Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi) is advocating access to high quality education for underprivileged children. It supports in Zitkovac a project called » Together in transition ».19.4.2018 © 2018 Didier Ruef for the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation