Migration management and support to return of asylum seekers III

Objectives

Improved position of the returnees and socially vulnerable persons in Serbia through economic empowerment and improved living conditions.

Description

In the third phase of the project, we continue to provide comprehensive assistance to returnees - asylum seekers and socially disadvantaged residents. The work of info-centers (hubs) through the network of Roma civil organisations, is continuous and timely information on available types of assistance. The project focuses on providing living conditions following Help's principle of self-help through the uninterrupted flow of valid information; reconstruction and furnishing the homes; support to individual micro-businesses to generate income, business and professional training to improve skills and knowledge of supported beneficiaries, and development of supported activities, support for education and emergency assistance to returnees upon their homecoming to Serbia.

Milestones:

• information flow through the info-centers (hubs) for at least 6800 people
• reconstructed and refurbished homes of 220 vulnerable families
• support to individual micro-businesses among Roma, returnees and socially vulnerable - 250 in-kind grants
• business and vocational training to improve knowledge, skills and qualifications - 442 beneficiaries
• support measures for schoolchildren' inclusion into formal education system - 1500 sets of supplies
• Transnational' cases - emergency assistance in cooperation with DIMAK
• referral system for vulnerable Roma returnees' and local population children to improve health care and diagnosis (at least 225 Roma returnees children and 480 local vulnerable population children).