On Sunday, October 27, the Charity Organization Serbs for Serbs hosted the traditional sports and humanitarian tournament Trojka iz bloka in Atlanta. More than 50 competitors gathered on the basketball courts in the courtyard of the Church of St. Peter and Paul, along with as many friends and guests who came from Atlanta and the […]Read More
Ivana (4) and Ivan (2) celebrate Christmas without toys, electricity, or a bathroom. Their “home” is a house bought for 1,000 €!
“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
“I dream of a beautiful white house” – let’s bring joy to children, who live amid grimy walls, as they await Christmas!
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
EVERY STEP IS AGONY: Andreja (16) “drags” herself every day to her fifth floor apartment, in a building without an elevator!
“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
“We miss mom so much!” – loss of their mother, fire, flood, no electricity… There is nothing the Đurašinovići haven’t endured!
“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
“Father, mother and only friend” – little Anastasia (11) grows up without a mother, and lives in a small room. Her dad is her whole world!
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
This is the PRISON OF POVERTY! The Marinkovićs don’t have bread for as many as 2-3 days, their friends shun them!
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
“They were completely healthy, but…” – the kind hearted Stanojevićs are raising seven children in 30 square meters!
We often think that our problems are the biggest and most unimaginable, until we get a harsh reality check from fighters like Darko and Ivana from Jagodina, parents of seven children, three of whom have developmental disabilities. This is the story of the Stanojević family – amazing courage, immeasurable sacrifice and endless love!Read More
Little Dunja’s tearful eyes (2) hit straight at the heart. In a run down house, she fantasizes about getting a toy and having a pink room!
Hide and seek, is one of the games that Dunja (2), Mihajlo (1), Andrijana and Marko (5), Snežana (7) and Miloš (8) enjoy. However, the smiles of these wonderful children are overshadowed by their hard life. They are growing up in the shadow of an old, run down house!Read More