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Memorandum on improving children’s position in Serbia signed
Belgrade,
19 September 2007
Serbian Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajic and Director of the “Save the Children” organisation for Southeast Europe Tim Bainbridge signed last night the Memorandum of Cooperation on implementing the programme themed “Joint Work on Protecting Children”.
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Fonet
The programme is in line with the National Action Plan for Children, adopted by the government in 2004, and aims at improving the position of children in destitute families in Serbia. It will be implemented in the upcoming three years with the financial support of the “Save the Children” organisation.
The programme envisages the advancement of the social care system and the protection of the rights of the child, as well as an increase in the capacities of social care centres in Serbia.
Ljajic said that out of 1,660,00 children and the young below 19 years of age in Serbia around 400,000 are poverty-stricken, whereas between 150,000-200,000 leave under extremely hard conditions.
It is our obligation to help these children and their parents and create a framework for the reduction of poverty, stressed Minister Ljajic and added that the project mostly aims at helping destitute children, children from minority groups, primarily the Roma, as well as parentless children.
Bainbridge recalled that since 1993, the “Save the Children” organisation directly or indirectly helped around 1.5 million children in Southeast Europe.
He said that 150,000 children in Serbia are underfed and hungry, whereas only 30,000 Roma children attend school regularly.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth, whose embassy endorsed the project with €600,000, pointed out the importance of this oldest and biggest independent organisation for the rights of children which today helps to improve the quality of life for children in over 120 countries.
The programme envisages the advancement of the social care system and the protection of the rights of the child, as well as an increase in the capacities of social care centres in Serbia.
Ljajic said that out of 1,660,00 children and the young below 19 years of age in Serbia around 400,000 are poverty-stricken, whereas between 150,000-200,000 leave under extremely hard conditions.
It is our obligation to help these children and their parents and create a framework for the reduction of poverty, stressed Minister Ljajic and added that the project mostly aims at helping destitute children, children from minority groups, primarily the Roma, as well as parentless children.
Bainbridge recalled that since 1993, the “Save the Children” organisation directly or indirectly helped around 1.5 million children in Southeast Europe.
He said that 150,000 children in Serbia are underfed and hungry, whereas only 30,000 Roma children attend school regularly.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth, whose embassy endorsed the project with €600,000, pointed out the importance of this oldest and biggest independent organisation for the rights of children which today helps to improve the quality of life for children in over 120 countries.
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