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19.04.2023

Look into the life of abandoned souls, into children in orphanages

Children often land up in orphanages due to numerous reasons, varying from one location to the other. While families of some struggle to cope to make ends meet, others often land up at orphanages due to cultural pressures, abuse, and negligence. Some families choose to abandon their children at unknown places to be rescued later. While others intentionally leave their children at the doorstep of orphanages to be adopted.

Is Meeting Children’s Basic Needs Enough?

There’s a reason why they say that parenting is the most challenging job in the world. The parent’s task isn’t simply to ensure that the child is well-fed and has a place to sleep. It’s to meet all their physiological, social, mental, and emotional needs. Unfortunately, though, when the role of a parent or guardian is out of the picture, things can take a dark turn.

Essential Cleaning Tasks to Teach Your Kids

Chores aren’t always fun, yet they are a necessary part of life, especially for children’s development. Parents play a crucial role in teaching children the value of cleaning. Participating in household chores at an early age can help build mastery, responsibility, and self-reliance — all of which can translate into other aspects of their lives, such as establishing good relationships and seeing academic success.

Eye to eye facts and figures on the life of children in western balkans

“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.” Associated with a history of ethnic divisiveness and political upheaval, the term “Balkans” is often put off with negative connotations. The Western Balkans usually comprises Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Life of kids in Croatia

The war of independence between Croatian Catholic Christians and Serbian Orthodox Christians in 1995 has led to a gruesome and scarring effect on the entire population of the Croats and the Serbs. Its effects are visible to date.

Why is it important to help kids in early age?

Providing adequate support to children at an early age help accelerate their development process in terms of health, cognitive, and social skills. In this post, we have delved into the significance of early child development.

Children in Kosovo and Metohija

Serbian children in Kosovo and Metohija are at the receiving end of constant violence. Several instances in recent times have made children feel insecure despite the agreement between the Republic of Serbia and the Region Kosovo and Metohija on the governance of Serbia-majority areas.

02.04.2023

The daycare in Vranje is making the world a better place

The Charity for Balkan Children has recently had a wonderful opportunity to visit Vranje and its Daycare for Children, Youth and Adults with Physical and Intellectual Disabilities [OJ Dnevni boravak za decu, mlade i odrasle sa telesnim invaliditetom i intelektualnim teškoćama]. While there, we met up with special education teacher Jovana Petrović and Ivana Tasić, the director of the Institute for the Development of Social Protection Services in Vranje.

Jefimija Children’s Home in Kruševac Empowering Our Youth

Though working with orphaned children and youth often comes with its fair share of challenges, no work is more rewarding. And no one knows the ups and downs of working in an orphanage better than Nataša Maksimović, the director at the Jefimija Children’s Home in Kruševac. Balkan Children had the honor to visit Kruševac and Jefimija, where Nataša shared insights into just some of what the children at the orphanage are going through.

14.02.2023

Deserted children of Bosnia & Herzegovina

The situation of children in the Balkans region during post-war period has become a major human rights issue.

Invest in our children. It is a sure-shot way to secure the future of the world

In a decade, today's kindergartners will be entering adulthood and preparing for their careers. In 10 years, the children of today will...

Lack of individual attention can impact all facets of life

Abandonment, death, incapacity, poverty, or disability – it doesn’t matter why a child ended up in an orphanage. What matters is that...