Since the first Monday in October, nine children in Östersund municipality have had a healthy Sami preschool day a week.

This is because the municipality has now started up a Sami preschool on Frösön outside Östersund - almost six years after the former Sami department was closed down due to lack of interest.

See when we visited the newly opened Sami preschool.

But the interest is anything but cool right now for the Sami preschool on Frösön outside Östersund.

Because when the preschool opened its doors on the fourth of October, the activity already had nine children registered to start.

And the joy was great among the Sami children and parents that the business is finally up and running again.

- We have been waiting for this for a very long time and have had consultations with the municipality of Östersund ever since last year.

So it's great that we're finally up and running now, says Silje Thomasson who has her two sons in preschool.

One day a week - to begin with

It is precisely consultations between the Sami parents and the municipality that have influenced the design of the preschool's structure.

For right now, the plan is for the Sami preschool to only operate on Mondays.

This is so that the children can also keep their regular preschool place close to home.

Something that the parents themselves had as a wish.

- The ambition is for the Sami preschool activities to be expanded over time.

Because no one in Östersund municipality thinks that eight hours is enough.

But it is a start that the parents wanted, says Anna Rosén, principal of the Sami preschool.

Everything from language to food

Although the municipality says that it has been challenging to find Sami-speaking educators, they have succeeded and now have both South and North Sami language skills at the preschool.

In addition, the lunch in the department consists of Sami dishes and a Sami meal staff is attached to it.

- I think that they can be enormously strengthened in their Sami identity and be in a context together with other children where the Sami is the norm and the normal.

My oldest son already talks a lot about his Sami preschool, says Silje Thomasson.