My name is Milica, I’m 11 years old and I most like to help mom and dad with knitting belts – we were greeted by little Milica Mijatović from Kuzmin near Sremska Mitrovica, whose main task, in addition to knitting, as the eldest, is to take care of her younger brothers and sisters. God blessed […]Read More
A lonely foursome from an Albanian village in Macedonia heartily cheer on Serbia. They dream about a ball and a new house! (video)
Although they are growing up in the predominantly Albanian village of Sopot in North Macedonia, the youngest Mitrovićs are the biggest fans of our football team and are proud of it. Of course, the boys, Aleksandar (13) and Nemanja (7) lead the way: My name is the same as our striker Aleksandar Mitrović, I follow […]Read More
On June 17th, the seventh “Three Pointer from the Block” event was held successfully in New York City.Read More
He bravely fought in Kosmet, and now raises his children in a garage: the Đorđevićs are the last Serbian family in the Preševo village! (video)
We live in a converted garage, the conditions are terrible. When it starts to rain, the basins shake. There is no shortage of mold. The children live in anxiety, that’s all they know. We most fear for their health because they inhale all the dampness – the terrible words of mother Alexandra hit like a bolt […]Read More
Nidža (2) has his own bed, Marko’s (7) friends came over – the Cvetković family in their new house! (video)
I had faith in you! In just under two months, Serbs for Serbs finished our house. Everything was done very professionally – Ivica Cvetković happily pointed out. His life story, along with his words “I was poor all my life” left no one unmoved. For a long time, Ivica and his wife Marija struggled to […]Read More
Huge holes in a frigid children’s room – never-before-seen conditions where six children are being raised! (video)
Milan (16), Tijana (14), Ivan (9), Luna (6), Melani (4) and Tamara (2) welcomed us with worn-out socks, barefoot, looking at us as if we were from another planet. And we are. We arrived from the planet of comfort and carefree living, while their corner of the world is like the desolate surface of the […]Read More
Only at Christmas and Easter do they have a chance to taste meat – Martin and Matija (12) pick strawberries and carry crates to collect money for soccer cleats!
My children only eat meat at Christmas and Easter. Sometimes they ask for it, but I don’t have the means. And then I cry, feeling guilty that I don’t have the opportunity to provide them with better living conditions. Every morning they cross themselves and pray to God to get a house! – thus starts […]Read More
A riveted pallet as part of the crib, so that Nidža does not fall out – a harsh life in a cold and makeshift house! (video)
We had seen all kinds of things through our charity work and encountered the most diverse living conditions in which children were raised, but we had yet to see a riveted pallet serve as the side of a child’s crib!Read More
Everything in the house is falling apart, and Stefan (8 ) and Nešo (10) dream of a warm room without holes. When poverty is great, desires are modest! (video)
Can you imagine in 2023, children living in a dilapidated house, not having enough beds, turning on a generator to study because they don’t have electricity, bathing in a trough because they don’t have a bathroom?Read More
University of Windsor students collaborate with Serbs for Serbs Canada to raise more than $20,000, to help build homes for Serbian families in Serbia and Montenegro
Windsor, ON – Serbian Orthodox Christmas in Windsor was unlike any other this year as the Association of Serbian Student Philanthropists through the University of Windsor announced a life-changing Christmas gift for impoverished families in Serbia and Montenegro — help with a new home.Read More