Home for Disabled Children – Kulina

(04/12/2007) During the delivery of the donation, the president of the Humanitarian Organization „Nezaboravak“ Vladimir Marković addressed to the attendants:

By purchasing the necessary medical equipment we want to help and improve the level of medical care in this Home, because the residents of this Home had to go to the medical institutions in Aleksinac or Niš before.

Also, we use this opportunity once again to remind every authority in this country to the initiative of the Humanitarian Organization „Nezaboravak“, and that involves the amendment of the current regulations, which would improve the parents’ position of the disabled children and therefore, enable a better care for these children. Our initiative is that single parents of the disabled children have the possibility to stay by their sons and daughters all the time.

Namely, it is necessary to define a law that grants the single parents and caregivers of the disabled children the status of an employee and monthly income at the average national level. In this way, the single parents would be given a possibility to be with their children who are extremely sick, to care about them and ease theirs and their children’s suffering. These parents are in a great dilemma, either to work in order to earn for the basic needs and the needs of their child or to stay by their child, but without the bare necessities of life. This is especially hard because of the fact that there are 70% of single parents in these cases. These are family tragedies where fathers in a great number of cases leave family because of the disabled child.

By the data that are available to us, there are more than 11,000 disabled children and youth in Serbia, where 1,800 of them are serious or severe cases of disability. We are also concerned that this number is increasing from year to year, so in 2006 the number of registered children was higher for 9% comparing to the previous year.

But we use this opportunity to remind our citizens that there were always genuine humanists and humanity in our history, wealthy men who had not remained silent or blind to the misfortunes of the poor and sick. Therefore, we expect all individuals and companies to join our ongoing campaign to help the disabled children and youth to make life a little bit easier for them and ease fears and sufferings of their parents and convey the message that they are not forgotten.