Activities

What has the Foundation
done in the last 37 years:

The Foundation has:

Built two buildings Children's Home in Valjevo and a house
in the SOS Children's Village in Sremska Kamenica.
Participated in the building, adapting and furnishing of housing for children and young people in Aleksinac, Uzice, Banja Koyiljaca and Nis, as well as housing for old citizens in Aleksinac and Tesici, Leskovac, Tutin, Sabac, Obrenovac,
Mataruska Banja, Smederevo, Novi Beograd and Paracin.
Aided by its activities and solidarity in the building of homes for handicapped children and adults in Kragujevac, Sremcica, Veliki Popovac, Velika Jabuka near Pancevo, Zemun, as well the solidarity school on Mt. Kopaonik.
Provided scholarships for 700-high-school pupils and university students -abandoned children. The only condition for the scholarship are social status and good marks for the previous school year.
Provided housing for the destitute after earthquakes and other natural catastrophes after the earthquakes in Montenegro and Banja Luka, and floods in Serbia - Vlasotince, Babusnica, Crna Trava, Mionica...
Participated in humanitarian aid to refugees exiled from Kosovo after 17.03.2004
Aided in the building of homes for families in various parts of our country in the village Kovilje on Mt. Golija, in the village Ivezici, in the town of Prijepolje, also in the building of solidarity housing in Lebane, in the village Vlasenica near the town Sabac, in Tutin, Medvedja and Brus.
Raised humanitarian aid for the starving children in Africa, Ethiopia and Vietnam.
Pecuniary contributions using the "LITTLE HOUSE" saving boxes and the children s seesaws "LITTLE HORSE AND LITTLE ELEPHANT" make a significant income for the Foundation.
The Dinar you put into a saving box at a Children's Health Care Centre, "C" - chain supermarket, "PEKABETA" - chain supermarket or a department store will mean a lot to those in need.

Children's Home "Dr Mihajlo Stupar" in Valjevo

Children's Home "Dr Mihajlo Stupar" functions as an integral, divisional unit of the Centre for Social Care in Valjevo. It works as children's community accommodating the children without parents' care. The capacity of the institution is 30 children. At the moment, there are 22 of them housed here. Those are the children that completed primary and secondary schools, as well as 3 students who attend university in Belgrade.
This humanitarian institution was erected by the Solidarity Foundation of Serbia together with the Municipality of Valjevo in 19flf, and-gSw^ as the Endowment to the Centre for Social Care in Valjevo. The Home was named after the late Dr Mihajlo Stupar, professor of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, who dedicated his life to the improvement of social care in our country. The children are brought up and educated by a professional team of individuals who work permanently together, for 24 hours. One of the specific characteristics of this small children's community is that the process of upbringing and education is based on the principle of one group - Children's community. The children, together with the teachers, take care of hygiene (of buildings and yards), and prepare food to themselves together with the teachers.
The cooperation of this Home with the international humanitarian organisations is very successful. A significant material aid was provided through UNHCR, the Japanese humanitarian organisation JEN, the humanitarian organisation "Hi Neighbour!", and the humanitarian organisation "Children".

House in the SOS Children's Village "Dr Milorad Pavlovic"

Children's Village is one of 17 Institutions for social care in Serbia, that take care of children without parents' care. It was built on the left bank of the Danube, at the foot of the hill of Fruska gora. There are 17 family houses in an old park. One of them was built by the Foundation. The full capacity is 156 children. The Village also has a Youths' Home of pavilion type, located in Novi Sad, where adolescents who attend secondary school are lodged. Daily routine is conceived similarly to family conditions, and is realised in conformity with the needs of the children in puberty.
Children's Village also has two apartments in Novi Sad. One is a present from the International Organisation SOS - Kinderdorf International, and is called "The house in the middle of the road". Five professionally fit children,
prepared to start leading an independent life, live in one apartment. The other apartment is in the university part of town in Novi Sad.
It was bequeathed to the Children s Village by a university professor, late Lazar Raki, historian by profession. Four students from the Children s Village live in it.
There is a certificate confirming that the Children's Village has became a member of the great family SOS Kinderdorf International.

Children's Home "Vera Blagojevic" in Banja Koviljaca

The Home was founded at the beginning of this century as a refuge for war orphans.
One of the first teachers in this Home was Rt. Rev. Pavle, the Serbian Patriarch. Sixty children without parents' care now live in this Home They come from all parts of Serbia and from the republics of former Yugoslavia. The Home is of multinational character. The Serbs, Romanic and Albanians live like one family. The children are being educated, some of them complete university education or academicals schooling.
This Home has always had good cooperation with the Red Cross of Yugoslavia and the International Red Cross, as well as with other international organisations.
Belgium, Germany Greece and other European countries rendered hospitality to the children from this Home.

Home for developmentally disabled children and youths, Sremica

This Home spreads on a beautifully arranged estate of more than 20 hectares. There are more than 300 children in the Home, aged 5 to 25. The team of 25 employees - teachers, social workers, psychologists, pedagogues, a neuropsychiatrist and physicians achieve remarkable results by work therapy. Every child is trained for some profession. The Home has its own property and 8 workshops - a little cardboard
production plant and its own printing shop whose capacities are really significant.
The Home in Sremcica is one of the best organised institutions of the social care type in Europe.
Humanitarian characteristic, exceptional professionalism and devotion of the employees have enriched these children's world and permeated it with the feeling of security that a family usually gives. Any person visiting this unique institution has the
impression that this is an oasis of intact human goodness.

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