As additional assistance of housing support provided during 2021 and 2022 for a total of 49 families in Sremska Mitrovica, Rumi and Pećinci, EHO provides improvement of housing conditions in the form of wood stove or combined refrigerator, whose delivery to families ended in March 2023. EHO implemented this within the project intended for returnees from Germany and other Western European countries " Assistance for a New Start” that partially supported non-returnees living in poor housing conditions.

Previous housing support provided construction materials necessary for the repair of houses, professional assistance of EHO engineers in the field during construction works, as well as paid installation and ceramic works for the new bathrooms. Other construction works were carried out by the families themselves.

The aim of this support is to provide better conditions for housing of selected endangered families, which would contribute to their easier (re) integration into the local community.

The services provided are supported, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, under the “Migration for Development” (PME) Programme.