Education Serbia Project #17206

Help Children Affected by Floods and Fires

by Pomoc deci

Project Report | Aug 24, 2015
Your Donations enabled 20 scholarships!

By Ljiljana Vasic | Director

Jovana with her young brother at Community Centre

Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for your support over the last three months! You have helped us raise £3,000 and this has made it possible for us to receive additional £3,000 from PayPal in UK!

With this money, we have decided to open a Call for applications from children from the families affected by the floods for one of 15 full scholarships in the coming school year, to provide 20 sets of textbooks and 15 school meals for the children who do not win the scholarship.

We have also planned to set aside some funds for necessary new shoes and clothes for those children whose parents have no means to provide them.

“Last year, when I went to school in my flip flops I was so cold that I got sick. My mother said I wouldn’t go to school in winter because she did not want me to get sick again and had no money to take me to the doctor. When my teacher asked my Dad which shoe size for the new training shoes I needed, I couldn’t believe it. And I still didn’t believe that I would get new shoes and could go to school until you came with those beautiful blue training shoes. Thank you so much for that! I finished the grade with very good grades and it was possible only because I could go to school when it was cold”, said Jovana from Obrenovac who completed the seventh grade in June.

Bonus Day: If you decide to help our project again on September the 16th, your donation will be 30 percent increased by matching funds from GlobalGiving. Please, help us help more children!

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