Dear Friends, Prof. Martinis,

The Red Cross of Serbia as all the citizens of the Republic of Serbia with great concerns follows these days’ tragic events which are, as a consequence of the fires, caused a great number of casualties and affected people and damages.
Allow me on behalf of the Red Cross of Serbia and all our members, voluntaries and staff to express to You, Hellenic Red Cross and the people of Greece – to all our friends, our deepest condolence. Please convey our sympathies to the families of the casualties in these tragic events.
The Red Cross of Serbia is ready to put on your disposal for rehabilitation of the consequence and prevention of further damages, our trained and specialized teams for disaster preparedness and response and respectful technical and material means. Immediately after information about tragic events all members of our special teams were activated and they are ready to react.
Please inform us about necessity for engagement of our teams and about any other kind of humanitarian relief.

Dear friends,

Tragedy which hit Greece we feel as our own pain.
The Red Cross of Serbia will never forget support and relief of the Greek people and Hellenic Red Cross in the hardest period for the people in Serbia.


With deep respect,

Red Cross of Serbia Soup kitchen program is presently implemented in 58 local RC branches , for 19.390 beneficiaries . Each of the beneficiaries receives daily , six days a week , half a liter of cooked meal and half a loaf of bread .
Tha program is operational thanks to following donations :

-Government of Serbia has provided CSD 20.000.000 for program implementation

-Norwegian Red Cross has donated CSD 7.500.000

-Serbian Telecom has supported program implementation with CSD 1.000.000

With the assistance of local authorities within Serbia, and thanks to mentioned donations, the Red Cross of Serbia has enabled functioning of Soup kitchen program during the winter months ( January to March ) of 2007.

At the end of 2006 Government of Serbia has directed the assistance of CSD 26.314.000 (exch. value of EUR 331.393), through the Red cross of Serbia, to the families of victims of train crash in Montenegro.
In the train crush in Bioca , on January 23rd 2006, 47 people were killed, while 112 were seriously injured.

First aid team of the Red Cross of Serbia that won the first place at the European first aid competition in June 2006 in Italy has been invited to take part in Formula 1 event in May 2007 in Monte Carlo. Our team will be part of medical security group together with the team from Monte Carlo.
The first aid team of the Red Cross of Serbia is consisted of young volunteers from Red Cross local branch Palilula.
The Red Cross of Serbia first aid team won the first place at the European competition in Assisi, Italy among 28 teams all over Europe which confirms the quality that the Red Cross of Serbia has in the education and first aid trainings.
Annually the Red Cross of Serbia provides the first aid trainings for 10.000 participants mainly youth. The first aid training is one of the basic objective that was entrusted to the Red Cross of Serbia by the Law on public authorization adopted in October 2006 by the Republic of Serbia assembly.

According to data from study “Strategy for reduction of poverty” in our country 10,5% of population live on the edge of poverty line. Throughout the network of the local branches, the Red Cross of Serbia is animating corporations and citizens to help to the most vulnerable citizen in their areas, within the limits of their capabilities.

The Red Cross of Serbia with help of Government of Serbia, the Norwegian Red Cross and local self government had included 18.750 of beneficiaries throughout the soup kitchen program, that was realize from June of this year in 58 municipalities in Serbia. In period from March 1 to June 31 2006, the Red Cross of Serbia had distributed 1.311.294 of hot meals to the most vulnerable citizens of Serbia. Every beneficiary of soup kitchen program received one hot meal per day, six days per week. Researches that were done recently are showing that this meal was the only meal during the day for 70% of the users.

At this moment, the Red Cross with help of local donors and local authorities is distributing hot meals to users in twenty cities: Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Sabac, Novi Sad, Zajecar, Smederevo…

Needs for this kind of support still exist in Serbia. The Red Cross of Serbia in cooperation with Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities have submitted a claim to Serbian Government and other donors for support in implementation of the Soup kitchen program for 19.390 users in 58 cities during the winter season 2006/2007.

The 6th of February 2005 is 129 Anniversary of the Red Cross of Serbia.

On Friday, 4th of February 2005 at 1 PM (13:00) in the premises of the Red Cross of Serbia, small ceremony dedicated to the anniversary would take place. The President of RCS, Dr. Dragan Radovanović will remind all participants on the most important facts from our long history