Finished projects Archive

EHO was awarded with a grant to implement a Project where the end beneficairies are families living in housing units at four locations in Vojvodina...

The project is a continuation of the support to improved living conditions of the Roma community living in Mišar in Šabac. The part of Mišar settlement where 17 Roma families live is on the banks of the Sava River. Due to the floods that hit Serbia in 2014, this community has been severel affected by floods.

The weaving course for women from marginalized categories was aimed at empowering and socio-economical strengthening of women with a difficult access to employment - most often, unemployed women, single mothers and women with disabilities. The project was implemented in the period from September 2020 to 31 December 2020 with the financial support from the Gustaw Adolf Werk from Germany.

This EHO project was aimed at the support and strengthening of citizens' associations and local initiatives that respond to the social, educational, cultural and other needs of vulnerable groups to improve the integration and position of other marginalized groups at the local level. The overall goal of the project was to strengthen local mechanisms for socio-economic integration of marginalized groups in the Republic of Serbia.

The Network for (Re) Integration of Returnees in Serbia is a project created with the aim of contributing to (re) integration of returnees and helping to establish support measures to strengthen families returned from the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Serbia under the Readmission Agreement. The overall goal is to improve the existing system of services and support to returnee families by strengthening the capacity of the Network of Local Associates for reintegration and transfer

On Thursday, 26 October 2017, the keys to 16 social apartments were handed over to 16 socially endangered families whose temporary accommodation, in the barracks of Kolubara in Veliki Crljeni, was destroyed in the floods in May 2014. On Thursday, 26 October 2017, the keys to 21 social apartments were handed over to 21 socially endangered families whose temporary accommodation in Obrenovac was destroyed in the floods in May 2014.

During the project, four new houses were built and 13 houses were reconstructed. Bathrooms were built in all houses. Each family received a well with faucet, with a regular water supply. Also, all families received grants for self-employment, income generation. The families were given sheep, pigs, chickens, means of work - i.e., a chainsaw, a boat engine, etc.

Humanitarian assistance projects for refugees in Serbia in 2019 follow EHO projects started in 2015 and onwards aimed at the needs of refugees in transit through Serbia, especially those who have stayed for more than 10 months in refugee reception centers. Project activities in 2019 were concentrated primarily on reception centers in Vojvodina (Adasevci, Šid, Principovac, Sombor, Subotica, Kikinda).

The aim of the project was to provide support and strengthen returnee families in order to increase their functionality and involvement in existing state support systems. The project was implemented over a period of 3.5 years in 32 municipalities in Serbia.

In its three-year cycle, the project had the goal to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic situation of Roma men and women in the Vojvodina through legal, economic and educational assistance and the improvement of housing conditions, and to support the realization of their human rights.

The project has been implemented with an aim to improve housing conditions and the process of reintegration of returnees in Serbia over a two-year period.

During their sojourn toward Western Europe, many families with children were stuck in temporary residence in one of the reception and transit centers in through the Republic of Serbia, from which they were supposed to continue across border crossings with our neighboring countries.

The project is being implemented by the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization since May 2019 within the reception centers in Subotica and Sombor. The target group is women and children who stay in the two centers due to the migrant crisis.