Dear Sponsors, our fellow Serbs and Serbian friends,

After 15 years of collecting your donations and distributing them to children who lost one or both parents in the war, this program is now closed.  As most of you know, the program was created in 1993 by late Mr. Veljko Miljus. For the first 8 years, even when the war was going on, every three months our dedicated volunteers traveled for weeks all around the country with tens of thousands of dollars in briefcases, and delivered your donations in person, in open meetings.  We want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of them.

The wars are now behind us, hopefully for good, and most of these children are now adults.  The following letter is the best illustration of what your support and help meant to them at the time.  Here is the original letter in Serbian:

From ******@cg.yu  Fri Jul 21 16:05:42 2006
From: "Natasa *****" <*******@cg.yu>
To: <info@serbiankids.com>
Subject: hvala
Cini mi se da je prosla citava vjecnost kako taj rat u Bosni i Hercegovini poce i zavrsi se.  Prodjose godine, rane ostale, a mi, nekadasnja "ratna djeca", porastosmo.  Neko sa vise trauma neko sa manje, ali uglavnom evo mene da se sjetim kako negdje tamo daleko bjese neko ko me se u teskim momentima sjetio.  Bila sam jedno od mnoge djece koja su u Trebinju dobijala simbolicnu (ali nikako beznacajnu) pomoc za vrijeme rata.  I evo sad kad imam svoju porodicu i kada mi, cini mi se, takva pomoc ne treba, ja samo zelim da se zahvalim Vama i Vasoj organizaciji za to sto su bili tamo gdje su najvise bili potrebni u to surovo ratno vrijeme.
Od srca zahvalna Vasa Natasha *****

and our English translation:

Subject: thank you
It seems like eternity since the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started and ended.  Years have passed, the wounds remain, and we, once “war orphans,” grew up.  Some of us with more, some with less trauma; anyway here I am remembering how somewhere far away someone thought of me in hard times.  I was one of many children in Trebinje who was getting small (but far from meaningless) financial help during the war.  And now that I have my own family and when I don’t need the help any more, I would like to thank you and your organization for being where you were needed the most, during the cruel times of war.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, your Natasha *****

From now on, we will not be able to forward your donations to the specific families.  However, our work is far from complete; there are many families in Serbia and Republika Srpska living in poverty, and there are many local community projects worthy of our support.  From now on, we will pick a single project every several months, and invite you to send your donation and help us make a difference.

The first project that we will support is the one most of you already know about, the “Nasa Srbija” Summer Camp 2008, www.nasasrbija.org.

We are including the quarterly distribution report for January 2008, and the one for July 2008; for those of you who have sent donations in advance (for example, for the whole year) all of this money was included in this one, last payment in July.

Thank you again for your support through the years.

With faith in God and a bright future for Serbian people,

Miodrag Nikolic                         Dan Christy                                  Milivoj Gicanov
                  President                          Vice President                                           Treasurer

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"Save Displaced Serbs" has data on over 10,000 Serbian children, without one or both parents, in need of your support.  Become a sponsor!  Most of these children receive no other assistance, and your contribution does make a difference.  Every three months, your $90 tax-deductible contribution goes to those who need your help.  If you cannot afford a long-term commitment (one year minimum), please consider making a one-time contribution.