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Support for local non-governmental organizations (LNGOs) and informal civic initiatives
Through this program, UMCOR provided the following assistance, benefiting over
12,000 children and young people:
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Six LNGOs received grants which enabled them to
implement projects such as informal education in
computer training and foreign language, children's
rights, drama workshops and other creative activities.
The organizations received technical assistance related
to organizational development including program
evaluation, strategic planning sessions, development of
promotional materials, financial management and more.
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Four LNGO partner organizations received small grants which they used to realise
community-based projects including an elderly home-care program in Prijedor,
an environmental action project carried out by the Youth Council of Gornji
Vakuf/Uskoplje to clean and landscape a town park and an urgently-needed project to
whitewash school buildings, organized by a group of
parents in Zenica and carried out by 200 volunteers from
the local community. An additional outcome is the
improved capability of our LNGO partners to manage small
grant programs and provide support services to formal
and informal community groups.
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Under the 'Small Grant Program', thirteen projects
received financial support from UMCOR including four
pre-school playroom programs in rural communities in
the Zenica area, an internet center in
Prozor/Rama, an advocacy project to improve child
road-safety in Jablanica and a day-care
center for children with disabilities in Srebrenica.
In Catici
near Kakanj, local NGO women's forum 'Alternative' received funding through the
'Small Grant Program' which enabled them to implement their 'Development of
Ecology and Sport' program, aimed at providing activities for youth in rural
communities.
As part
of this project, repairs were carried out on the local bridge by 40 volunteers
from the community of Catici. The work included concreting the access areas,
constructing stairs down one side of the bridge, building a drinking well and
installing a one metre high safety fence.
In an
extension of the Catici project, a playground with a seesaw, a sand pit and
a merry-go-round was created by the river. The bridge provides children with a
safe route across the river to the playground. The NGO also implemented a
cleaning action to give the children a secure and healthy atmosphere in which to
play.
Updated May 2004
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