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Painting workshops bringing good memories to migrants

Psycho-educational and occupational workshops are ongoing at the Reception Centre in Obrenovac. These are creative, stimulating, relaxing and educational techniques and activities aimed at improving the mental health of migrants. Participants in the workshops said that such activities make their everyday life easier, that they enjoy the atmosphere of unity...

Migrant girls from Iran made hairstyles in the secondary school “Sveti Sava” in Loznica

In the secondary school “Sveti Sava” for education of professional hair stylists in Loznica, a hair show was organized today, presenting hairstyles made by students of the school. Among them are three migrant girls from Iran, accommodated in the Asylum Centre in Banja Koviljaca. The school principal Jelena Mirkovic said...

International Migrants Day marked in Bujanovac with a children’s event

Migrant children accommodated in the reception centre in Bujanovac and students of the primary school “Branko Radicevic” from Bujanovac organized a joint event today in that school. The messages of peace, love, tolerance and other universal values were sent from the event. After the end of the event, migrant children...

Children from the Asylum Centre in Krnjaca visited the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade

Today, migrant children from the Asylum Centre in Krnjaca visited the museum and laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, where some of the science experiments were presented to them. Student of the Faculty of Chemistry Sladjana Savic took the children through the Museum of Chemistry which houses a...

Migrants prepared New Year gifts for children from Bosilegrad

The youngest inhabitants from the municipality of Bosilegrad, the children born in last two years, received New Year gifts yesterday, which were prepared for them by migrants and refugees from the Reception Centre in Bosilegrad. The gifts were distributed to kids within the EU Support to Migration Management in Serbia,...

Children’s greeting cards to 900 addresses

Today, migrant children together with children from Subotica made greeting cards in the preschool institution “Nasa radost” in Subotica, on the occasion of the International Migrants Day which is observed on 18 December. On that day the decorated greeting cards will be sent to 900 addresses across Serbia, which would...

Workshop for planning the health care of migrants in crises

Workshops for planning the health care of migrants in potential crises caused by the increased influx or prolonged stay of migrants and refugees continued in Belgrade on 10 December 2018. Continuous workshops are being organized for representatives of local self-governments, public health institutes and primary health centres from Sid, Pirot...

Workshop for healthy growing up of children held in Sjenica

Within the EU Support to Migration Management in Serbia, a counselling for growing up healthy was organized in the Primary Health Care Centre in Sjenica. Children and parents from the migrant and the local population were told about the ways to protect their health and thus improve their health habits....

Migrants and volleyball players from Bujanovac in a friendly tournament

On Saturday, a friendly volleyball tournament was organized in the Bujanovac Sports Hall between BSK’s men’s and women's teams and male and female migrants staying in this town. The president of the volleyball club BSK, Slavisa Jovic, said that he would actually call this tournament the “Open Doors Day”, when...

Vinca reminded migrants of their homeland

Today, migrants from the Reception Centre in Obrenovac visited the archaeological site “Belo Brdo” in Vinca from the Neolithic, from the period of around 7,000 years BCE, because they showed interest in the history of Serbia. Mateja Bakocevic from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said for the news agency...