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05. Dec 2022.

On this day, 05.12. World Volunteer Day has been celebrated around the world since 1985, when it was proclaimed at the session of the United Nations General Assembly. Every third person in the world engaged in volunteer work and thus became a "man of good will". During the previous week, and in anticipation of December 5, volunteers who are engaged in...

05. Dec 2022.

Reception centers in Subotica, Sombor and Šid are places where occupational workshops within the EHO project "Humanitarian Assistance and Protection Related Interventions to People on the Move in Serbia" are held since August. On the occasion of the Day of Volunteers wed’ like to point out a story about our volunteer Tatjana.
Furter reading is authored by our workshop facilitator Ivana...

02. Dec 2022.

In the premises of our organization, the “Initiative for Economic and Social Rights - A 11” and “Praxis” held a lecture on the provision of free legal aid on Friday, November 25, with a focus on the Law on Free Legal Aid, as well as its shortcomings from the point of view of NGOs (as free legal aid provider) and beneficiary. The Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization...

25. Nov 2022.

Support for the education of children from families of lower socioeconomic status has been successfully provided for the sixth year in the primary school "Zoran Petrović" in Sakule, and from this year the project is also implemented in additional primary schools in Aleksinački Rudnik and...

23. Nov 2022.

At this year's Roma Forum, the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization gathered journalists from Roma newsrooms from the territory of Serbia. Partners in the organization of the event are the Office for Inclusion of Roma AP Vojvodina, Radio...

23. Nov 2022.

The Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization is continuously providing assistance and support in exercising their rights to socially disadvantaged persons since the organization was founded. In this sense, at the invitation of the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights - A11, a Participatory forum was held in the premises of the EHO...

21. Nov 2022.

All activities during the previous week within the project "Field work with children at risk of being involved in life and/or work on the street" were aimed at marking the World Children's Day, celebrated annually worldwide on November 20. We made a special art activity "Superheroes"...

21. Nov 2022.

On the occasion International Children's Day celebrated worldwide on November 20, the educator of the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization held a creative workshop with the children staying in this center through the project "Empowerment of refugee women and children". On the world map, the children showed, in a creative way, how migration affects their...

18. Nov 2022.

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in 1996, November 16 was declared the International Day of Tolerance. Every year on this day, we are reminded that tolerance can ensure the survival of mixed communities in every region of the globe. International Children's Day is celebrated on November 20, and was established...

18. Nov 2022.

During the current week, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization and the humanitarian organization Banka hrane Vojvodina (Food Bank of Vojvodina) aiming to provide support to socially vulnerable families through donations. Our cooperation started...

18. Nov 2022.

The International Day of Tolerance is celebrated around the world on November 16. On this occasion, the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization, together with associates from the Center for Social Work and the IOM, realized an educational and creative workshop, through the EHO project "Empowerment of Refu...

10. Nov 2022.

EHO representatives led by director Anna Brtka Valent had meetings with several partner organizations in Germany, at the end of October 2022. On that occasion, a meeting was organized in Stuttgart with the director of Diakonie Württemberg, Prof. dr. Annette Noller and stakeholders in the Church Council of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg...

10. Nov 2022.

EHO and four elementary and two vocational schools signed a Memorandum of Cooperation recently. These schools that are involved in the implementation of the project "Education and Economic Empowerment of Marginalized Groups". On this occasion, equipment was donated to the schools...

08. Nov 2022.

On Friday, November 4, 2022, we met to celebrate several landmarks: the Anniversary of our organization, the "Seniors' Day", Thanksgiving, Reformation Day and All Saints. Several people from the EHO Club for Seniors participated in the program through poetry recitation and music performances. This year, we were delighted by Jovgen Nađ...

28. Oct 2022.

A healthcare education workshop was held in the National Library in Bački Gradište within the EHO project "Prevention through early detection of malignant diseases in women from rural settlements in Vojvodina", on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, with Marija Parnicki and doctor Branka Bjelica, invited by humanitarian association "Đina" from Bačko...

25. Oct 2022.

On the occasion of the completion of construction works on family houses, representatives of GIZ Serbia and EHO visited three families in Sremska Mitrovica on October 20, 2022. It is part of a total of 22 houses in Sremska Mitrovica, Ruma and Pećinci, which EHO provided this year with assistance to improve housing conditions, as...

24. Oct 2022.

from October 18 to 20, 2022, the first of three trainings "Writing a business plan" were organized. In total, it is planned to organize 9 trainings on writing a business plan and 9 advanced trainings by the end of the three-year project. The trainings are organized as an activity of the project "Education and economic empowerment of marginalized groups in Vojvodina"...

24. Oct 2022.

On Saturday, October 22, the last sports workshop of this year was held, within the project "Field work with children who are at risk of being involved in life and/or work on the street". In the previous period, children and young people had the opportunity, every Saturday during September and October, to direct their free time, in the morning hours, towards recreation...

21. Oct 2022.

EHO, Caritas, the Center for Social Work and the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, with adult and minor beneficiaries of the center, jointly renovated the playground for children in the Reception Center Sombor within the EHO project "Empowerment of refugee women and children". They refined the space for playing and socializing...

21. Oct 2022.

The Global handwashing Day is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of proper hand washing with soap, as an effective way to prevent disease. This day is celebrated all over the world on October 15. On this occasion, within the EHO project "Empowerment of refugee women and children", an educational...