"Unidea" donated 1m EUR for humanitarian projects in Serbia

Non-profitable foundation of "UniCredit Group" - "Unidea", has donated about 1m EUR to three humanitarian organizations in Serbia. This money will be used for realization of the projects of the People's Office of President of Republic of Serbia, humanitarian organization "Divac" and non-government organization "Group 484".

President of "Unidea", Paola Pjeri, has stated that the foundation, in association with UniCredit bank, wanted to help organizations in Serbia that work with refugees and internally displaced people and youth.

The Manager of the People's office of the President of Republic of Serbia, Tatjana Pašić, said that the donation of 100,000 EUR would be used for granting of scholarships within the scope of program "1,000 young leaders".

She said that that program was realized under the patronage of the President of Serbia, Boris Tadić, and she specified that the Office would grant 40 scholarships at 2,000 EUR each and try to prevent "drainage of brains".

Vlade Divac said that his humanitarian organization had obtained 390,000 EUR for realization of "Raise" project, which concerned economic and social integration of 100 households of refugees and internally displaced people whose problems of residence had been solved through campaign "You can do it too".