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The Yugoslav wars of the last decade have brought their share of refugees. Serbs from Croatia, Bosnia or Kosovo, 52,000 new city dwellers have swelled Zemun, a town of 250,000 on the outskirts of Belgrade. But according to Vladan Janicjevic, president of the municipality, ‘only 10% of the refugees have found a place in Zemun. No wonder, there are no jobs. [There’s a lot of social hardship. Many children are left to fend for themselves. They hang around in the city. There’s a lot of public dissatisfaction with the new arrivals, and yet they are our fellow citizens.
In March 2002, TGH opened two youth centres in Zemun near Belgrade and in Vrnjcka Banja in southern Serbia. The aim of these centres is to promote the development and integration of young people into local society and the wider world by providing a “resource centre”. This is achieved not only through the activities carried out there (educational, cultural, sports, etc.), but also through the importance of initiative and responsibility that young people have to take in the running of the centre.
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