Vrbas: Keys to 14 apartments handed over to refugee families

In Vrbas, the keys to 14 apartments built as part of the ninth sub-project of the Regional Housing Program were handed over. The apartments are intended for refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

The total gross area of the building is 1.098 m2, while the value of the works is about 596.222 euros.

As part of the Regional Housing Program, we expect the relocation of 18 beneficiary families to Aranđelovac, 36 to Pančevo, 12 to Pećinci, and 250 to Ovča in the upcoming period.

The award ceremony was attended by Jasna Bjelica, Member of the Council for Social Affairs of the Municipality of Vrbas, Gerhard Salzer, Representative of the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia, Chief of Cabinet of the Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit, Jovan Lazarov, and Commissioner for Refugees and Migration in the Republic of Serbia, Nataša Stanisavljević.

The Regional Housing Programme 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 the region.

It is implemented with the support of the OSCE, UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank, and is financed by the European Union, which is also the largest donor, the United States, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.