Foundation SOS

Children Villages Serbia

Floods in Serbia
Emergency Relief Program
Floods in Serbia during May 2014.
Chart of flooded areas in Serbia

• In May 2014. almost 1/3 of

Serbian theritory was affected
by floods

• Greatest damage was in 11

municipalities: Oberenovac,
Mali Zvornik, Krupanj,
Ljubovija, Vladimirci,
Koceljeva, Šid, Svilajnac,
Paraćin, Ub, Lajkovac, Ljig,
Osečina, Mionica,
Smederevska palanka,
Trstenik, Bajina Bašta
Flood in Obrenovac

• On May 16th torrental rain caused

embankment breaktrough on rivers
Tamnava and Kolubara. Poor out from
riverbads caused 100 year flood in
Obrenovac

• Obrenovac was covered with water within

couple of hours. Level of water was above
rooftops of small houses and above ground
levels of higher buildings

• Evacuation lasted for 3 days and involved

Mountain Rescue Service, Police and
Military special forces and helicopter units,
civil engineering companies, volunteers
Flood in Obrenovac

• 13.603 persons were evacuated from

Obrenovac. People who had nowhere to
go were placed in collective centers in
military facility „Bora Marković“, hotel
TENT and in Belgrade collective centers.

• Collective centar in hotel had worked over

a year. High number of hotel inhabitants
stayed in hotel TENT till its evaction
because they lost almost everything in
floods and had nowhere to go.
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• Mobile team was formed soon after floods
stopped.

• MT had aim to visit as much as possible

flood affected areas and to, through game
and fun, give psycho-social support to
children.

• Its acomplishment is: 134 activities on 32

location with more than 2.600 children
involved.

• Since today MT managed to drive 17.000 km

on flood affected areas all over Serbia

• Now MT team continue its work in 10

municipalities. Aim is to point on local
problems and to involve government, NGOs
and all people with good will on creating
solutions
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• SOS CV Serbia saw a need for establishing

Safe Place for Children in hotel TENT and in
SC centar Kolubara in Lazarevac.

• Aim was to give psycho-social and educative

support to children who were in collective
acomodation. SPC created a safe
atmosphere for children where they were
able to express their full potential and for a
moment forget about floods.

• SPC teams managed to give support to 311

children who were daily accomodated in Safe
Places during May floods.
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• Finaly we formed two CFRC teams in

Lazarevac and in Obrenovac

• Aim was to give psycho-social, educative,

material, health and other forms of support.

• Case managers reached 30 cases each which

is allowed maximum of cases per case
manager. Total number of families who got
any kind of support is 405

• We are connected with local government

and with almost all NGOs on both places

• Our services are recognized and approved in

both municipalities.
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• Floods made more families live on edge of

poverty

• Floods made more children and youngsters

depressed and apatic and left lots of adults
without hope

• One year after, beside our effort, for lots of

children and families still life is not back to
normal

• All of NGOs after a couple of months of

providing services in flooded areas falled back .
We lasted over a year and there is still great
need for our services
 Foundation SOS
Children Villages Serbia

In behalf of all children supported during

May 2014. floods

THANK YOU