By Ljiljana Vasic | Director
Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for your continued support to our efforts to help children and their families affected by the floods in Serbia this year! With additional 13,000 USD that you have donated, over the last three months, we have managed to raise a total of 46,500 USD since we started the campaign.
Over the last three months, we have provided stipends for the full school year to 15 children. Among them is little Andrija T.
He is only six years old and lives alone with his mother in Paracin. The subterranean waters in May destroyed part of their home, bathroom and toilet, but they could not get support from the municipality because only “direct damages” produced from the rain were eligible for compensation. Social services even threatened to take Andrija away from his mother because of totally unacceptable living conditions without any running water or sewage system working. And all of that happened only two months after father died of a heart attack. We agreed to help Andrija directly by providing him with the stipend, providing for a free snack at preschool and have managed to gather some construction material so that his mother can rebuild bathroom and toilet.
“My Mom says that I will eat with my friends too, at school now. Before, when they were eating I was sitting and drawing something waiting for them to come back” – said Andrija excitedly when we went to see them and sign the contract for the support.
With your donations, we also paid for free snacks in school for 56 children in ten municipalities, have assisted five families in buying the heaters for winter and have provided winter clothes and shoes for 34 children in seven municipalities.
We now have the opportunity to raise more funds through End of the Year Campaign. The campaign begins at 00:00:01 EST (06:01 am Belgrade time) on December 1st and runs through 23:59:59 pm EST (05:59 am Belgrade time) on December 31st. We need to raise at least $3,000 from 30 donors in order to qualify for a bonus award. And there are several awards that if we win will go directly to the children and their families that have suffered from the floods.
Please, help us help these children. Let your friends and colleagues know what we are trying to do, how they can get involved and how much it means to these children.
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