On Saturday 30th of September in the summer residence of the Greek-catholic bishop in Sid, which is also a volunteer’s center of this diocese, an intercultural cooking workshop was held, to which 10 women from the Refugee center participated, together with the local women from Sid. The workshop was organized together by Caritas and SOS Children’s villages.

The goal of the workshop was to get to know each other through recipes and customs. The women from the Refugee center Principovac prepared 10 different meals, characteristic for their countries, while the local women prepared meals from Srem – this area of Serbia.

The workshop had a great importance for the women from the Reception center, who had a chance to go out of their everyday live, meet the local people, show what they know and host each other through preparing meals.The success of the workshop was confirmed with the smiling faces of the participants and the nice atmosphere in which they were all helping each other to prepare the traditional meals and the common lunch.

In the next period Caritas is planning to continue with this kind of activities, cause the first one was a great success and a confirmation that a different culture is always a richness.

The participants o took a common photo, with their arms wide open, showing the openness towards others, as suggested in the Caritas Internationalis campaign “Share the journey“.

This activity has been organized with the support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Caritas network.