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Monthly Report No 4 October, 2010
Charity organization Serbs for Serbs
PO Box 34206, Chicago, IL 60634 Phone: +1-312-85-SERBS
Website: www.SerbsForSerbs.org E-Mail: [email protected]
Monthly Report www.SrbizaSrbe.us 2010
Dear friends and donors,
Charity organization Serbs for Serbs have
finally registered in the state of Illinois in United
States by the group of the Serbian youth. Charity
organization Serbs for Serbs is currently in the
process of applying for a 501(c)3 non-profit
organization status. We registered organization in
Jun 2010 and we have already started working and
began raising donations.
Since this is our fresh start in the United States
please excuse us for any difficulties and mistakes
that we make in the beginning.
About Us
The mission of Charity organization Serbs for
Serbs is to affect on consciousness of Americans,
Serbs and their friends through planned
projects, social and humanitarian activities in
order to develop and foster better society for
future generations and provide aid for
underprivileged families in need.
Although there are many humanitarian
organizations and associations, help often doesn't
reach the most jeopardized. Due to unnecessary
administration, missing information and slow
decision making, the delivery of aid arrives too late
to the final consumers, or not at all. It is a sad and
embarrassing, but true fact that more than 18.000
children daily die around the world because of
starvation and malnutrition. There, among us, the
blind and deaf.
We are witnesses of the bad demographic situation
of our nation, decreasing natality, increasing
number of singles, abortions, accelerated aging of
the population and generally bad economic
condition of the households in Serbia, Republic of
Srpska and Montenegro and other countries in the
Balkan.
An average couple has "fallen" on one child.
Analysts warn that Serbs will become a minority in
its own country in the following century if the
nation, individuals and government don't wake up
from the nescient in which they've fallen!
On the other hand, nobody is talking about the
families with many children which grieve by living
in bitter poverty. Occupied by their everyday
struggle for survival, they are being humbly in their
desire for implementing rights which belong to
them. Their life stories, fears and problems are
identical, but almost invisible and unheard in order
to gain the attention of the public, media and even
state. That's why the idea of the Charity
organization Serbs for Serbs arose. Organization
was formed by a group of young and trustful
people, who are united by the common vision of
helping families blessed by many children and who
are aware of the fact that even a small help means a
lot for those who don't live in a material excess.
We are united by the humane idea to help the
poorest part of the Serbian nation.
Charity organization Serbs for Serbs try to
revive the spiritless energy of the Serbian Diaspora
which would be able to reinforce people of Serbian
heritage as well as all good people throughout the
world with minimal, but constant monthly
donations.
We hope and believe that there is also a grain of
doing good and that you will join us in the endless
struggle against poverty.
God bless and save all Serbian families with many
children and our honored donors who participate in
the noble effort to return smile on children faces.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE!
www.SerbsforSerbs.org
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Ambition
The mission of Charity organization Serbs for
Serbs is to affect on consciousness of Serbian
people through our projects and humanitarian
activities, in order to develop better society for
future generations.
Why Serbs for Serbs?
We wanted to alleviate impaired spirit of Serbian
people in togetherness and brotherhood help
through humanitarian work and social aid.
Who do we help?
We help Serbian families who live in the Balkans,
have five or more children and live in terrible
poverty.
How do we define “terrible poverty”?
Under terrible poverty we define absence of one or
more basic factors required for living: food,
clothes, shoes, and safe space for living.
Why do we help?
We believe that there is a basic need for one
human (or a group) to help others in distress. A
help is not only human virtue but also a Christian
responsibility. By focusing our help on families
with many children, we directly affect on their
stirring toward becoming independent from social-
dependable government programs. Indirectly, we
want to affect on birth rate of Serbian people that
has been in great decline in last 20 years.
What are our long term goals?
- family is ready to support itself daily and manage
to pay all required expenses and bills
- their children are encouraged to continue with
school and raising their own family
- our donors are satisfied with the activities and
they are ready to help other families
- our organization is satisfied with the results
- family is ready in the future to become our donor
and if necessary help other families that are in
need of help
Who do we need in organization?
We need members and donors that will secure
financial stability through supporting our
programs and activities in the future. Donors may
join our daily activities within the organization in
order to coordinate our work better. We also need
volunteers ready to donate several hours per week
for actual work within the organization. Activities
of volunteers and their specific tasks would be
determined by the required projects and their
personal interest. From that group of volunteers
we would look for future leaders of organization.
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Jointly we are building a house for Trišić
family
Report: Predrag Marinkovic, Serbia/ PHOTO / /
ACCOUNTS /
Today's visit (10.02.10.) Trišić family from the village
of Orahovac municipality of Zvornik, humanitarian
organization Serbs for Serbs joined the big home-
building project carried out by our brothers HO
Nemanjići-Ticino. The aim of this major project which
is very brave and daring started by our friend is a
complete construction of the house to the family of
Andrej Trišić disabled veteran. Our organization has
participated on this occasion from 500.00 € (Euro) to
help with the purchase of necessary construction
materials.
Friends of the humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs
in Belgrade have developed a new series of shirts that
will be sold in order to collect funds for the planned
actions to help the Serbian people in Kosovo and
Metohija, which will carry out our organization in
September of this year and January 2011
Collecting money for the tractor
Humanitarian organizations Serbs for Serbs continues to
collect the funds needed to purchase tractor for family
Ekmecic from Prebilovci village in Herzegovina. With the
new 300 euro this month as we separated the ''Fund for
tractor'' currently we come to the sum of 1,500 Euros.
Patiently we continue with this project in the hope that we will
in due course to collect the necessary sum for purchase of
tractors.
SFS for the first time in Old Serbia
Report: Predrag Marikovic, Serbia / PHOTO / / ACCOUNTS /
Representatives of humanitarian organizations Serbs for Serbs
over the weekend visited the area of the South (Old) Serbia
and carried out another in a series of large humanitarian
action.
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For the first time during our many years of charity work we
managed to plan and carry out the work visit and deliver
assistance to the Serbian people living in the territory of South
Serbia (now FYROM). This time we visited and helped six
Serbian families and delivered aid worth around 1,200 €.
Delivered assistance consisted of: 2 washing machines, a
stove, an electric. Stove, a freezer and hygiene parcels and
basic foods.
Full Report Serbian
Stove Smederevac for Family Filipovic from
Nis
Irina (4 months), Svetlana (8 yrs.), Mihailo(10 yrs.) Danica
(13 yrs.), Djordje (18 yrs.), Mother Maria and father Srdjan
Filipovic can finally relax a bit. This modest family, live in
town Nis, in an old house and in difficult conditions with
only 20,000 dinars per month,this family received from our
organization stove "smederevac " because there stove was in
condition of falling apart. With the help of God and the great
efforts these family manage to cope with the difficult material
conditions in which it is located.
The biggest problem for this family are old and worn-out
things that are easy to break down, and because of low
income this family is not able to fix these things. The current
problem was stove "smederevac". That's why we decided to
help them and buy a new stove. As parents say this was a big
hit, now the temperature in the house is at a normal level,
which is certainly the most important thing. ( in such a small
area (27 squares) they live with five children. )
Stove ''Smederevac'' for Family Filipovic from Nis
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SFS helped family Milic in
Montenegro
Milic refugee family from Kosovo and Metohija is still in the
camp near Podgorica
Representatives of humanitarian organizations Serbs for
Serbs from Montenegro were in another visit to family Milic
inhabited near Podgorica /Ribnicka Vrela where we delivered
food and hygiene aid.
Thanks to the church community in Podgorica that brings
food in this refugee village, family Milic daily get three
breads and one cooked meal, and it is really the most valuable
form of assistance. We also took money, which they traded
food in a shop, and collected some clothes. We hope that
better days are coming for this family…
We helped the family Zmiric from
Krajina
Report: Milos Jovanovic, Austria / Diocese Dalmatian /
ACCOUNTS /
The Austrian humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs
conducted on October 23 another humanitarian action in
Serbian Krajina. They visited the village Miranje Gornje in
the Benkovac municipality, and helped the Žmirić family.
The Austrian humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs
conducted on October 23 another humanitarian action in
Serbian Krajina. They visited the village Miranje Gornje in
the Benkovac municipality, and helped the Žmirić family.
The family had exiled from their homeland, and went to
Prizren. However, after the begining of a new war, they had
to run again, and they found themselves in the „promised
land“, in the U.S. state of Arizona. At first, all of them were
employed, but the economic crisis has left them without their
jobs. Thus they have managed to collect enough money to
come back home. However, the situation is difficult. Dušan
married the American Samantha, and now they have five
children, , Kasandra (7), Kristina (6), Dijana (5), Dušan (3)
and Aleksandar (1), and twins on the way. Dušan’s parents
also live with them.
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The house where they live is in a very bad condition, because
they are virtually roofless. Thus all the help SFS managed to
collect, 825 euro, was spent for the construction material. Our
association managed to get 300 euro, another 425 was
provided by the donors from Vienna, and an anonymous
donor gave another 100 euro. The help was very much
needed, since the family Žmirić has not yet managed to get
the so-called guaranteed rights for the returnees – health and
social insurance, and the renovation of the refugee houses is
being done selectively – the elderly without progeny are the
first to get it, while Dušan and his family have to wait. They
are the only Serbian family that live in Miranje Gornje, which
is divided into two distinct parts – an old village, distanced
from the road, and a new settlement along the highway.
Dušan plans to cultivate the land and get the financial
stability for his family. The soil is very fertile, and there are
potentials to grow organic food. Some people from Australia
gave him the tiller for the cultivation of land, and Dušan
himself dug the pool for the irrigation of land. It is worth
mentioning that Dušan and his father are renovating the house
on their own.
The SFS organization plans to help this family during the
next visits to Krajina. Apart from money, we gave them the
books “Children's Gospel” and “Holy Prince Lazar and the
Kosovo pledge”, clothing and footwear, sweets and fruits,
toys, and a package of sanitary supplies.
How many more need to be silent?
Representatives of humanitarian organizations Serbs for
Serbs visited on 28 October notorious Ustasha camp
Jasenovac on their way to help families in the Republic of
Srpska. Based on the place where hundreds of thousands of
Serbs, Serbian mothers and children, today there's only a
stone monument, broke up a wooden path leading up to it,
the remains of the railway, which has worked to ''transport
people and goods'' in only one direction, and based of the
camp, which is now converted into a training center.
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Deafening silence of death awaited us at the blood-soaked
Serbian land.
We pray to God that the Serbian people never again find in
a brick oven or on the edges of Ustasha knives. We pray to
God to never make any camp in which the Serbian people
continue to disappear at an accelerated procedure. We pray
to God that the Serbian people never forget their suffering,
persecution and pogroms.
Jasenovac Video
SFS in Prijedor and Obudovac
Report: Igor Rasula ,Serbia (Photos ,Accounts)
Representatives of humanitarian organizations Serbs for
Serbs from the Serbian Republic, Serbia and Switzerland
have visited and helped the two multi-member Serbian
families in the Republic of Srpska , family Marijanović with
nine and Pavlovic with four children. We provided
emergency aid for purchase of food, hygiene (value of 600
Euros), and for the youngest ones we provide some candys.
After we visited camp Jasenovac in the early hours, we
continued to the Krajina town of Prijedor, where we were
welcome by friends and donors of our organization.
In the village of Petrovo selo lives family Marijanovic . When
we entered their yard, from the house started to come out
little children who are curious about us and their mother Mira
welcome and invited us to enter their home. The house is in
very poor condition. Relatively recently painted walls could
not hide their dilapidation and partly bad construction. The
house is warm thanks to God.
We learn that the family Marijanović fled during the war
from Kljuc Herzegovina to today’s Petrovo village where
they live. Family other than parents makes nine children:
Dragana (1993), Suzana (1996), Marko (1998), Zeljka
(2000), Jelena (2001), Dragan (2002), Zeljko (2004), Predrag
(2007) and the youngest Svetlana has only six months.
Our action in the Republic of Srpska ends up with our visit to
Pavlovic family in the village Obudovac, near the border with
Serbia. Although we reach the deep dark, we were greeted by
the youngest Pavlović children with joy in there warm home.
Our plan was to provide basic supplies of food for the winter.
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While part of our team stayed with the children and father
Zeljko, the mother Mitra with two of our representatives went
to a nearby shop where we supply food, toiletries and
clothing for Pavlovic family in the amount of 320KM. Of the
remaining 40KM how much money we have left the mother
will be provided flour.
Our visit to family Pavlovic marked the first year of
cooperation and assistance of our organization. Until just a
year ago Pavlović family had a house that was leaked, terribly
difficult material and social situation. Today however things
have improved for the better. The house is completely
renovated, painted, installed insulation and the interior has
been raised, the upper floor will remain provisional until
further notice while stripped to raise funds for its expansion
and completion.
This time we will invite the Serbian people to awaken from
the lethargy in which was pushed and help these and other
Serbian families who just need a little help to keep and
strengthen the St. Sava’s way, which we all want to go.
With faith in God,
Igor Rašula
October in USA
Film: Srbi,Narod koji nestaje!
Few representatives of humanitarian organizations Serbs for
Serbs attended the premiere showing of the documentary film:
Serbs, the people who are disappearing! In the hall of the
Serbian National Defense in Chicago. (10/01/2010 @7pm)
The film was screened in the evening dedicated to newspaper
Liberty that is held every Friday in the hall of SND.
There was a great interest in the film, especially among the
Serbian youth and the hall was too small to receive all
interested.
The film was attended by one of the speakers in the movie
Father Milos Vesin, after the movie he started discussion on
the film subject.
WATCH MOVIE ONLINE
Option 1 , Option 2
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Nikola's Message
Zdravo, Hello, How are you doing?
My name is Nikola and I have been given the unique
opportunity to share this message on behalf of all of the
children in Serbia.
Yes, a beautiful country indeed, with rich culture and genuine
hospitality everywhere you turn; however, this isn't the case
for everybody.
Do you know what it would be like to live in a country
containing more people over the age of 65 than under the age
of 15? Or to not have a brother or sister to love and share life
with because your parents are just financially unable to afford
another child, not to mention the constant daily struggle with
hunger and starvation?
Children are brought to this earth to explore and learn. They're
here to make positive changes in the world, but how can they
do that if they don't have the basic conditions necessary for
life itself?
Here is something you might not realize. For the price of one
missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every
day for 5 years.
Malnourishment has a serious negative effect on the brain and
its cognitive abilities, so how can we expect our children to
learn if they're not receiving the proper requirements for
growth?
Its time that we bring an end to hatred and war, in order for us
to start to focus on what is important. Our future.
Children are our future. Please, if you can, head over to
www.CAOF.us to help support our children today.
On behalf of all of them, the Serb for Serb organization, and
myself...
Thank you.
Click here for VIDEO LINK
Support our organization.
We want to inform all donors and friends of
humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs
that live in the United States that we have
new Pay Pal account so you can send your
donation via email to:
(Pay Pal account [email protected] is
still active for donations from Europe)
Thank you,
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE!
Деца су наша будућност!
www.SerbsforSerbs.org
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Finance
Donors in October
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1.B.K. - $15.00
2.www.CikaskiSrbi.com - $50.00
3.Milos - $42.00
4.Dejan Petrovic - $15.00
5.Milutinovic Family - $15.00
6.Igor Glisic - $50.00
7.www.NemaPredaje.com - $25.00
8.Mateja Stojkovic-$25.00
9.A.S. - $100.00
10.Zeljka K. - $25.00
11.Sinisa K. - $25.00
12.A.D. - $25.00
13.BBRS - $15.00
14.Aleksandar Krsmanovic - $50.00
15.Zelimir L.- $40.00
Total: $517.00
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+ Donor from USA still using Serbs for Serbs Austria Pay Pal
5. Вук са Дрине /САД/ - 21.5 €
12. Милош В. /САД/ - 10 €
15. MjCook /САД/ - 7 €
18. Dragana W. /САД/ - 20 €
21. Симке /САД/ - 15 €
37. Емина С. /САД/ - 35 €
63. Недељко П. /САД/ - 20 €
= 128.5 Euros
We want to inform all donors and friends of
humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs that live in the
United States that we have new Pay Pal account so you
can send your donation via email to:
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an anonymous donor instead of having your full
name in the donors list, with or without stating the
state where you are, please email us:
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