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Memorandum signed for implementing work programme for protection of children in Serbia
Belgrade,
18 September 2007
Serbian Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic and Director of the programme Save the Children for South East Europe Tim Bainbridge signed today a memorandum on implementing the work programme for protection of children in Serbia.
Ljajic said following the signing of the document that the essence of the programme is to help the most disadvantaged children in Serbia, especially orphans, children from socially disadvantaged families and from ethnic minority groups.
He recalled that there are 1,660,000 children and young person up to 19 years in Serbia. He said that due to that reason in 2004 a national action plan was adopted which is a strategy for improving the position of children.
There are 400,000 children in Serbia who are poor, of which some 200,000 are fighting to survive, said the Minister, adding that the state is obliged to make plans and a political framework for reducing poverty.
Bainbridge said that the work programme for protection of children in Serbia is a project which will unfold during the upcoming three years in cooperation with the Serbian government, and the financial help of the EU.
He said that only 30% of Roma children in Serbia go to school, while some 150,000 children are undernourished.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth recalled that Save the Children is the oldest and largest independent organisation dedicated to the rights of children, which helps children in more than 120 countries.
He recalled that there are 1,660,000 children and young person up to 19 years in Serbia. He said that due to that reason in 2004 a national action plan was adopted which is a strategy for improving the position of children.
There are 400,000 children in Serbia who are poor, of which some 200,000 are fighting to survive, said the Minister, adding that the state is obliged to make plans and a political framework for reducing poverty.
Bainbridge said that the work programme for protection of children in Serbia is a project which will unfold during the upcoming three years in cooperation with the Serbian government, and the financial help of the EU.
He said that only 30% of Roma children in Serbia go to school, while some 150,000 children are undernourished.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth recalled that Save the Children is the oldest and largest independent organisation dedicated to the rights of children, which helps children in more than 120 countries.
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