Support for Children in Flooded Areas of Serbia

After the May 2014 floods, many families were displaced as a result. We have been helping families by providing resources for kids who were affected and thus ameliorating in some ways their plight.

Nikola is one of those kids. After the flooding, his family lost everything. His childhood home was ruined and forced the family, which includes his parents, brother and a sister to move into a rented space for more than eight months. Due to circumstances, the family was forced to pay for home repairs themselves. All of this was happening while Nikola was finalizing his elementary school education and preparing for the high school entrance exam. Donors such as yourself were able to help Nikola continue his education.

Today, Nikola is in his third-year of high school. He is studying electrical and computer engineering and would like to continue his education at the applied studies level. He is also proficient in foreign languages and taught himself English.

Over the past year, Pomoc Deci has been able to provide scholarships, daily hot meals or sets of books and we would like to continue to be able to do so. In order to continue, we need your help. This project is reliant solely on donors such as yourself and 100% of the donation goes towards providing for these children. The donation can be as low as $12 which would provide a hot meal for onemonth for one child, or as high as $500 which would provide a scholarship for one student for the year, or anything in between.

Don’t forget to connect with Pomoc Deci on our website and facebook page. If you are unable to donate, please consider sharing the fundraiser with your friends.

“We have sent you a most recent photo of Aleksandar at our neighbour’s house, since our house has been destroyed in the most recent floods again and our neighbours have offered us a room till we could repair and dry our barn”, Dragoslav, Aleksandar’s Dad wrote in his e-mail sending us the photos of all the awards Aleksandar received at the graduation ceremony. “We can’t begin to tell you how grateful we are for the scholarship for Aleksandar for the last four years, since the first flood disaster! He could have never accomplished this without this support! We are so proud of him, but eternally grateful to you and all the people who donated their money to enable this scholarship”, wrote in his emotional letter, Aleksandar’s Dad.

Aleksandar has just graduated from High School with the Highest Honours and with a national Award for the pupils who not only have 5.0 as general average mark throughout a four-year secondary level education, but have also shown extraordinary success at various national competitions. In addition to that, he has received an award for being a best pupil of his generation in the School.

Four years ago, during the worst flood in the region, their 50-year-old family’s house was completely destroyed. Aleksandar, his sister and parents were literally left homeless. They moved to a barn in which the whole family has lived whilst trying to rebuild the house. Last month, new floods made even the barn impossible to sleep in.

Every single dinar that the family can earn goes to the efforts to make their house inhabitable again. And your donations have made it possible for Aleksandar to have clothes, shoes, text-books and school material to go to school. All his awards have been made possible because of your help!

Thank you for supporting us to help children like Aleksandar!

In just two weeks (on July the 18^th), GlobalGiving Foundation is organising a July Bonus Day when donations starting at $100 and up to $1,000 will be matched while $250,000 in matching funds remain. The higher the donation, the higher the match! Please, consider helping us provide scholarships for children like Aleksandar next school year (one full-school-year scholarship for one child is 600 USD or 550 EURO!

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