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Swift centre recycling facility opens
Belgrade,
9 December 2010
Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic announced, opening a recycling facility at the SWIFT centre in Zvezdara, that a similar plant will be opened in two more Belgrade municipalities – Rakovica and Cukarica – and other Serbian towns will follow.
Author:
Tanjug
Djelic said that Norway donated €2.2 million for the SWIFT project, of which sum €250,000 was used to procure machines, delivery vehicles and to secure the initial capital for this facility.
He stressed that the project is important for Serbian citizens and the Roma population, adding that the centre will help to find jobs for 50–100 Roma from the Orlovaca residential area.
The recycling centre has closed deals with large companies from Belgrade and will legally sell its products through a waste collectors’ cooperative, managed by the Roma residents of Orlovaca.
Norwegian Ambassador to Belgrade Nils Ragnar Kamsvaag said that the project will help this marginalised group of people to find jobs and be integrated in the society.
Unofficial waste collectors in Belgrade were faced with serious problems, they did not have health insurance and were extremely poor, Kamsvaag noted, adding that this project will help them to secure jobs and have a better social and economic future.
Another positive aspect of the programme is environmental protection, he remarked, adding that this model can be replicated in other places, both in Serbia and in the region, and the EU will finance the second stage of its implementation.
A facility for the waste collectors’ cooperative has been built within the SWIFT centre and the project is implemented by the World Health Office in Serbia together with the International Organisation for Migration and the UN Office for Project Services, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
He stressed that the project is important for Serbian citizens and the Roma population, adding that the centre will help to find jobs for 50–100 Roma from the Orlovaca residential area.
The recycling centre has closed deals with large companies from Belgrade and will legally sell its products through a waste collectors’ cooperative, managed by the Roma residents of Orlovaca.
Norwegian Ambassador to Belgrade Nils Ragnar Kamsvaag said that the project will help this marginalised group of people to find jobs and be integrated in the society.
Unofficial waste collectors in Belgrade were faced with serious problems, they did not have health insurance and were extremely poor, Kamsvaag noted, adding that this project will help them to secure jobs and have a better social and economic future.
Another positive aspect of the programme is environmental protection, he remarked, adding that this model can be replicated in other places, both in Serbia and in the region, and the EU will finance the second stage of its implementation.
A facility for the waste collectors’ cooperative has been built within the SWIFT centre and the project is implemented by the World Health Office in Serbia together with the International Organisation for Migration and the UN Office for Project Services, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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