B92 Fund delivers food to enclaves in Kosovo

Continuing campaign "Food for Enclaves" in which B92 Fund aims to provide enough food supplies for the work of soup kitchens in enclaves for the 2,000 most impoverished, the food was on Tuesday delivered to the central storage and soup kitchen in Prekovac.

2,000 of the beneficiaries of soup kitchens will continue receiving daily meals thanks to the funds collected within the campaign of the B92 Fund.

Donors who regularly donate money and supplies to B92 Fund's campaigns helped send food to the enclaves.

B92 Fund provided EUR 10,000 worth of beans. The food provisions will be enough for the undisturbed work of the soup kitchens during the winter season.

Non-governmental organization Majka devet Jugovića, which works within the Eparchy of Raska and Prizren, manages the work of six soup kitchens, helping the poor and is constantly under pressure of enhancing its capacities, as well as expanding its work to the places that are not currently covered, especially in the region of strpce, where there's a need for at least 500 meals per day.

Government's Office for Kosovo donated to the soup kitchens around RSD 12mn for the salaries of the employees and other related costs.

Svetlana Stevic, who coordinates the work of soup kitchens on behalf of NGO Majka devet Jugovica, thanked the donors, underlining that "it is very important to institutionalize the functioning of soup kitchen in order to secure regular costs that are necessary for maintaining the whole system, from the electricity costs, to the costs incurred by the transportation fuel, as well as for the salaries for the staff members that are truly devoted to the work and development of the system for this elementary type of social support. Primarily, I appeal to donors to help us becoming independent as soon as possible, so that we could produce food on our own, and also in order to offer job to the beneficiaries of our services, so that they can play an active role in food production, which will contribute to their regaining self-esteem and dignity".

B92 Fund's Board of Directors President Veran Matic pointed out that thanks to Fund's activities, the work of soup kitchens had been successfully restored and that B92 Fund for the third consecutive year helped undisturbed and continuous work of this vital center for aid primarily to the most impoverished population in the Kosovo Pomoravlje District where over 70,000 Serbs live.

"I want to take this opportunity to invite all those who had ideas in which ways it is possible to support the self-sustainability of soup kitchens, for which they possess adequate means and technical devices, to contact us, so that we can use their potentials, from the agricultural ones, via planting and processing of medicinal herbs, to various kinds of services," Matic pointed out.

Raska-Prizren Bishop Teodosije supported the activities, appealing to solidarity to all the citizens in need of assistance and support.