A new beginning in Novi Banovci
Just hours before the bombing started in the town of Benkovac, Croatia in the summer of 1995, Ljubinka, then 25, her 1-year-old son, and a couple of friends managed to flee the country. After several days on the run, Ljubinka was able to reunite with her husband and...
A refugee family from Burundi restores its faith in people, bit by bit
The first encounter with Serbia for Olivier, a refugee from Burundi, was when he arrived in the no longer operating Bela Palanka Reception Centre in late November 2020. He remembers the cold like he never experienced before, and not being able to communicate due to...
Two Ukrainian women are striving for great success with their newly opened fashion studio in Vranje
Liudmyla and Ilona have embarked on a thrilling adventure together. They are refugees from Ukraine, forced to leave their homeland due to the turmoil of war, and presently residing in the Asylum Center in Vranje, with their children and aged parents. Having left their...
Support from a compatriot makes it easier for an Iraqi asylum-seeker to integrate into his new environment in Serbia
Twenty refugees and asylum-seekers from all over the world volunteered to distribute water to the runners in 36th Belgrade Marathon on 23 April. All of them were all special in their own way. But one of them was more special than others. Meet Diar – he believes...
A refugee in service of refugees
Yuliya decided to come to Serbia because she was convinced it would be easier for her to integrate because of the similar culture and religion. She was right. Yuliya, a 31-year-old mother of a 7-year-old boy from Ukraine, is currently staying at Asylum Center in...
More than employment – building a new life and a better society
Picture this: you have left everything behind. You are fleeing your home, and the only certainty is that you are escaping conflict and persecution, looking for a safe haven. For many of us, it is for sure difficult to even conceive this kind of situation. Refugees are...
Delicacy Monday – Food, Dance and Safe place – for Everyone
May, warm yet pleasant weather. Pots full of food – chopped, fried, cooked and stirred with love by the students from the Hospitality and Tourism School and young refugees from Iraq and Burundi, Karoh and Lorraine, are being served into the KC Grad on the Sava...
Goodwill ambassador MIYAVI visits Serbia
By: Mirjana Milenkovski, Belgrade, Serbia “I know you! I saw you in Lebanon!!” exclaimed a little Syrian refugee boy who arrived in Serbia a couple of months ago with his parents and siblings. As life has a way of arranging it, MIYAVI and given a concert in a refugee...
Yonas Kinde promulgates refugee power at the Belgrade Marathon
By Dragan Vukotic Running has always had a special place in the life of Yonas Kinde, Olympic marathoner and a former refugee. It had helped him to be always on time for school during his childhood years in Ethiopia and has been helping him ever since not to be late...