From the 23rd till the 26th of October Caritas Serbia organized a training on SPHERE standards for the coordinators of Caritas in Serbia. The trainer was Nina Wöhrmann, expert on SPHERE standards, who presented these standards in four days of training. In the first two days the participants learned more…

In cooperation with Technical Education Teacher Bratislav Djordjevic from the Elementary school in Presevo, we came up with the idea to make traffic signs, all in order for children to learn their meaning more easily and quickly. On Monday, we returned from school, and during free activities, we worked with…

Caritas Serbia has observed the 10th of October – World mental health day also this year, together with the associations, members of the Network for mental health NaUM. Unlike the previous years, where there was a bigger attention on the promotion of mental health, this year the associations had a…

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…

After hearing the appeal from Caritas psycho-social support team children refugees from the Reception center Presevo wanted to participate to the action “Bottle caps for the handicapped“. The collected bottle caps are later donated to the association “Čep za hendikep“ (Bottle caps for the handicapped), which is purchasing wheelchair and…

With the support of the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) from May of this year Caritas and Philantropy are covering the distribution of all meals in the reception centers for refugees Presevo and Bujanovac. The food that we are distributing is prepared by the social enterprise “Tradicija juga”,…

30th of August 2017: President of Caritas Germany dr Peter Neher and President of Caritas Serbia Msgr. Stanislav Hocevar had a meeting with the Minister of Work, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs in the Government of Serbia Zoran Đorđević. The minister expressed his gratitude to Caritas for the selfless assistance…

President of Caritas Germany dr Peter Neher, together with Claudio Moser, responsible for the department of Latin America and Europe and Tobias Noelke, coordinator of assistance to refugees and migrants in Serbia, Greece and Turkey, visited the Asylum center Krnjaca in Belgrade on the 30th of August 2017. Mr. Matthias…

President of Caritas Germany Dr Peter Neher, accompanied by Claudio Moser, responsible for the department of Latin America and Europe and Tobias Noelke, coordinator of assistance to refugees and migrants in Serbia, Greece and Turkey, visited the Refugee center Presevo on the 28th of August 2017. The representatives of Caritas…

Caritas organized a painting action in the Asylum center Krnjaca – Belgrade, to which a great number of refugees and migrants decided to participate, especially young men, in order to improve common living contiditions.  This action was supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the project Humanitarian assistance…