Handed over apartments in Smederevska Palanka

The keys to 15 apartments were handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in Smederevska Palanka today. The apartments were built within the ninth sub-project of the Regional Housing Program in the Republic of Serbia.

The award ceremony was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selaković, the President of the Municipality of Smederevska Palanka Nikola Vučen, the representative of the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia Dirk Lorenz, the Director of the Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit Ltd. Belgrade Dušan Kovačević and the Commissioner for Refugees and Migration Vladimir Cucić.

As part of the Regional Housing Program in Smederevska Palanka, 154 families have been permanently provided with housing through the components of the allocation of building materials, rural households, prefabricated houses and the construction of apartments.

Dear users, thank you for the patience you have shown. Home is a place where you need to feel loved and safe, and I want you to feel that way. I congratulate you on moving in and the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays. I wish you a happy and beautiful future," said the Director of the Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit, Dušan Kovačević

The Regional Housing Programme (RSP) is a joint multi-year programme of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, which aims to provide durable housing solutions for the most vulnerable refugee families in all four countries.

The Regional Housing Programme is supported by the OSCE, UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank, and is funded by the European Union, which is the largest donor, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.