Interview Questions - Serbs for Serbs Charity

President of our organization, Igor Rashula, has been interviewed by one of the people with couple questions and we are pleased to post it on our website.

Can you explain the situation and motivations that led you to create this charity organization? Who was initially involved? Did you face any challenges in the beginning? Do young people play a significant role in your charity?

The idea for establishing charity organization Serbs for Serbs arose spontaneously, during online chat between football fans on the famous Serbian web portal Serbiancafe.com in the 2005. While discussing the ideas on how to help and contribute to the Serbian country and their people, somebody suggested raising money online via private Pay Pal account only within their group in order to help a poor family from Kragujevac, Serbia with five children by sending some donation. After raising 300 euro, they went and visited the family, took many photos and posted back to the whole group on the web. Soon after, the web site www.srbizasrbe.org was created, and organization began operating strictly online. Their idea was to help families with many children while they were growing up, so the expectations for a better Serbian society in the future would actually be plausible. The whole group was consisted out of mostly young people, ages 20-35.

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New event in Chicago for Kosovo

The youth of Chicago, with the site Chicago Serbs, organized Easter humanitarian action to help Serbs in Kosovo under the title "No surrender" with blessing from Serbian Orthodox Church. The objective of action is to collect money to help Serbs in Kosovo, as a revival of national consciousness of the Serbs in the United States. The humanitarian plan of action is to collect money with simple and effective way in the distribution of silicon's bracelet colored with Serbian tricolor with the inscription: "KOSOVO IS SERBIA! ' Humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs will provide full media support for this project of our friends from Chicago. Bracelets should be distributed with the help of the church, the Serbian businesses in the United States and presentations on the internet. Results of action will be published on the web page of our actions www.NemaPredaje.net as well as photos from Kosovo when the money is committed. All businesses in the United States and individuals who want to be involved in the action can contact Youth of Chicago via e-mail ( info @ nemapredaje. net ).

Help delivered to family Vuksanovic

Miloš (left) with Vinka (6 years old) and Srdan Vuksanovic

Written by: Miloš Tiosavljević; Translated by: Bojan Cvjetković

On March 10th, I have finished with our action to help family Vuksanović. We bought food, flour, food, hygienic stuff and candy for children. All of the members of family Vuksanovic are satisfied and very happy, especially children. They are thanking donors and the humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs for everything they have done. I have to say that Srdan and his wife Snezana did not believe that help will come until they saw me when I delivered help for them.

You can check photo gallery from this visit.

Serbs for Serbs recovering flames

On February 22nd, four representatives of our humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs visited family Major who was affected by the fire that has happened in their house and burnt their house leaving them without their home. Petko Koprivica, journalist from " Politika " and person who told us this sad story about family Major, came with our representatives to the house of Ana Major's sister. Currently, house has 14 members with only 7,000 dinars in earnings from social help and on average, family has to buy 10 breads a day. Our organization has collected 10 bags of clothes, shoes, sheets for bed, lots of toys for the youngest ones and candies. In the agreement with mother Ana Major, orgnization has donated 35,000 dinars to the Fond made for the reconstruction of the house.

In conversation with Ana, we also learned that their municipalities will soon help in temporary accommodation while the house is under construction. Also, many major newspapers wrote about this family thanks to our humanitarian action.

All donations can be sent to:
Hypo-Aple Adria banka, Ana Major, Beogradska 41, Vrbas, 165-1001523090583-58

There is also a photo gallery of our visit.

Serbs for Serbs help family Joksimovic

On February 14th, humanitarian organization Serbs for Serbs successfully conducted another emergency humanitarian action. Representative of our organization, Milos Tiosavljević, coordinated in the organization and procurement of necessaries for family Joksimovic. For a total of 35,000 din., we purchased the freezer of 310 liters, 250 kilos of flour, 30 liters of oil, higenic packages, meat, food, candy for children, and gallery has been prepared as well. After yesterday's call for Želimir to come to Novi Pazar to buy all that he needed, he still could not believe that this is all true.