Family Zivkovic consists of the father Igor, mother Jelena and their five sons, Nemanja (12), Luka (10), Momcilo (7), Dusan (5) and Vukasin (2). They were living in the old set of shacks for the workers, so the biggest problems were bad isolation, moisture in the walls ant the ceilings and a fifty year old damaged bathroom with no proper functioning plumbing, sewerage and electrical networks.
Bathroom of Zivkovic family in June 2016
Bathroom in December 2016
In providing help for the Zivkovic family, next things were done: - external insulation and the facade of the house - the moisture problem was fixed - ceiling was insulated and the kids room and the kitchen were painted - The bathroom was fully renovated (new plumbing, electrical and sewerage networks were installed, together with new tiles and bathroom furniture) - Kitchen was renovated (new tiles were installed with new kitchen furniture and the kitchen was completely painted).
Kitchen before reconstruction
Igor Rakocevic and Milos Simovic checking the quality of done work
The new kitchen and its transport were the donation from the Forma Ideale company, which lately has shown a great interest in the work of Charity organization Serbs for Serbs.
The total amount of help provided was 367.823 RSD, and these funds were raised thanks to the three sport-charity manifestation in the project of TROJKA IZ BLOKA (tournament in fast basketball 3 point shootout game held in Borca and Visnjicka Banja and also thanks to the beach volleyball tournament named “Odbojka iz bloka” held at Ada Ciganlija).
What makes this project special is the collaboration with Igor Rakocevic and Forma Ideale company. It shows us clearly that besides the big amount of people who are ready to help both from Serbia and the rest of the world there is also a growing number of sports celebrities and companies ready to give their support to the Charity organization Serbs for Serbs and to the hard work of its members in providing better living conditions to socially vulnerable Serbian families with a lot of children.
a serious chess match between Igor Rakocevic and Zivkovic family
In the past six months (from 16th of April until 30th of October) thanks to the project TROJKA IZ BLOKA, 40 sport-charity manifestations were held across Serbia and its diaspora (38 fast basketball 3 point shootout games, beach volleyball tournament and charity football game). More than 4500 people were the participants of these events, and the final number of funds raised for the socially vulnerable families was more than 5.6 million RSD.
In the name of Zivkovic family and the Charity organization Serbs for Serbs we would like to express our gratitude to all the participants, sponsors and donors of the above mentioned tournaments – this is a success thanks to us all!
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