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Contracts for the purchase of 15 rural houses with accompanying gardens were ceremoniously handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia in Irig

Today, April 28, 2021, in Irig, contracts for the purchase of 15 rural houses with gardens were ceremoniously handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia with residence on the territory of this municipality. The houses were purchased within the Regional Housing Program (RHP) in the Republic of Serbia, Subproject 9.

   Funds for the purchase of these houses were provided from the donor fund of the Regional Housing Program, whose largest donor is the European Union. The value of the donation for each house individually is 11,000 euros.

   Ljiljana Rakić, Head of the Reception, Care and Return Department at the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, Miodrag Bebić, Deputy Mayor of Irig, Brigit Kuhar, Program Manager at the European Union Delegation to Serbia, Stefanie Krause, Head of the UNHCR Department for Permanent Solutions in Serbia, Jovan Lazarov, Chief of Staff of the Director of the Public Sector Project Management Unit d.o.o. and others attended the ceremony.

 "The new coronavirus pandemic has not stopped the allocation of permanent solutions. During the last year, through the Regional Housing Program, the housing problem has been resolved for more than a thousand refugee families," Rakić pointed out, adding that this big undertaking would be continued at the same pace.

   So far, the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration has provided permanent housing in Irig, with budget and donor funds, to more than three hundred refugee families who came here in the 1990s, during the war conflicts in the former SFRY.

   The Regional Housing Program is a joint multi-year program of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, which aims to provide permanent 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 funded 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.