“We barely managed to gather enough for the house; it cost 1,000 € ,” said Marijana, the mother of six children, with a trembling voice, pointing to the building, which hardly anyone would consider livable, let alone desirable.Read More

On cold winter nights, while  holiday lights brighten homes around the world, many children in the Balkans welcome Christmas in homes shrouded in darkness, cold, and filled with anxiety. The walls are black with soot, the ceilings leak, and the windows, covered with old rags, barely let in the sun’s rays. What is most lacking […]Read More

“She drags herself up the railing, climbs slowly… When she gets tired, I take her in my arms and carry her. We live on the fifth floor of a building without an elevator, and Andreja (16) has difficulty walking due to an illness, making it a struggle to provide her with a normal daily life“, […]Read More

“Nothing is as it once was, everything is more difficult since my mother is gone. We miss her a lot“, said Nenad (14), Stefan (13) and Dragan (11), boys who spend their days studying, playing football and working with their father.Read More

It breaks my heart that I can’t provide them with a house, so that they don’t grow up in this little 10m2 room. I am their father and mother, and often their only friend. Their mother left them a long time ago, says Negomir Luković, single father of Đorđe (12) and Anastasia (11).Read More

We have nothing, sometimes there is no bread for two to three days. For the children’s birthdays, we buy juice and pour half a glass for each of them. We have yet to have any guests visit us, painfully, and through long pauses, Elena, the mother of five children states, “It is very hard.” The […]Read More

The region of Krajina often goes unnoticed in our mainstream media. When it is mentioned, the focus tends to be on the elderly in abandoned villages, seemingly ignoring the younger generations. Fortunately, that’s not entirely the case! The Charity organization Serbs for Serbs proudly announces that over the past 15 years, it has helped as many as 500 families with […]Read More