STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Text: APC  Photo: APC Subotica, Horgoš, Kelebija, Kikinda, 03 August 2019. -  APC/CZA staff regularly visit border areas in northern Serbia, migrant and refugee reception camps and open locations where migrants and refugees are located along the borders with Croatia,…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Subotica, Horgoš, Kelebija, Kikinda, July 20, 2019. –  APC/CZA staff regularly visit border areas in northern Serbia, migrant and refugee reception camps and open locations where migrants and refugees are located along the borders with Croatia,…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Bujanovac, Presevo, Vranje, July 20, 2019 - APC/CZA mobile team regularly visits border areas in southern Serbia, as well as transit and reception camps for migrants and refugees in Presevo, Vranje, Bujanovac, Pirot, Nis, Dimitrivograd and…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Subotica, Horgoš, Kelebija, Kikinda, July 6, 2019 - APC/CZA mobile team regularly visits border areas in northern Serbia, as well as transit and reception camps for migrants and refugees in Subotica, Kikinda, Sid and Principovac, including…

Text: APC  Photo: APC Bujanovac, Preševo, Vranje, Pirot, June 24, 2019 -  APC/CZA mobile team regularly visits border areas in southern Serbia, as well as transit and reception camps for migrants and refugees in Presevo, Vranje, Bujanovac, Pirot, Nis, Dimitrivograd…

Arranged by: APC                           Photo: APC Banja Koviljaca / Bogovadja, November 11 - Amongst the refugees and migrants we've met with in recent months at reception and asylum…

Banja Koviljaca, November 5th - On October 31st a visit to the Jadar Museum was organized within the framework of LOVE integration support, with a group of refugees who are housed at the asylum center in Banja Koviljaca. After numerous…

KRNJACA, August 2018 - Husein still sees the scars on his body and soul. He is from Kurdistan. He's been in Serbia for a few months, but his escape from conflict and his journey towards Europe lasted much longer. (English…

edited: APC    foto: APC ADASEVCI, July 31st - During our regular visit to the Reception Center this morning in Adasevci, our team found an upset group of migrants in front of the camp from Iran, among whom there was one…

Edited: APC    Photo: APC Bogovadja, August - Jamila is a single mother from Afghanistan. We met her for the first time half a year ago in Bogovadja. She seemed lost with her three sons by her side, but she accepted…

edited: APC    foto: APC BELGRADE, July 13 - We've known Saber for half a year already. He's 26 and comes from Iran. From the very first meeting in Belgrade, he wanted to break every possible sign of prejudice about…

pripremio: APC    foto: APC SUBOTICA, July 1- We first met with Akbar at the Transit Center in Subotica at which he had just arrived to with his family from another camp. He took our call seriously to invite us whenever he…

Prepared: APC    Photo: APC Belgrade,December 1 – Another child has lost her life on the difficult refugee path to one of the promised countries in Europe. Six year old Medina, a girl from a large Afghan family, was left ten days…

Prepared:APC          Illustration: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Belgrade, April 19 – With the closing of the Balkan route about 8000 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan...are stuck in Serbia. About 6000 are in reception and asylum centers, far from the public's eyes. And…

author: APC | photo: APC    Belgrade, February 8th – We met Jan in the park near the bus station in Belrade almost half a year ago. He had been in Serbia for three months and during that time he tried to cross…

author: APC | photo: APC    Belgrade, February 5 – Zahid is a tall man. Your eyes immediately drawn to his large hands. He says he trained volleyball in Pakistan and was a good athlete. He was okay in school, he dedicated more time…

author: APC | Photo: APC    Belgrade, January 25 –Aisha is seven years old and for a few days now, she can not sit still in her refugee room in the asylum center in Krnjaca. Walking with her father and mother, showing them drawings…

author: APC | photo: APC    Adaševci, December 24 – It's hard to understand how hard the refugee journey is and how much trouble is faced by people fleeing from their countries of violence, deaths, who cross thousands of kilometers, across mountains, in unstable…

author: APC | photo: APC    Adaševci, October 25 – Hamed is 33 years old and has spent majority of his life as a refugee. 25 years ago, he escaped with his family from Afghanistan, and since then he has been searching for shelter.…

author: APC | photo: APC    Bogovadja, October 20 – The borders are closed for refugees. Borders of Turkey, through Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania are guarded by police officers, soldiers, dogs, helicopters, reinforced fences, with the announcement of new means of protection...Thousands…

author: APC | photo: APC    Kelebija, May 29– When we saw, what we guessed, was a thirty five year old man, with a four year old boy who he held firmly, he hurried to meet us with a smile on his face.…

author: APC | photo: APC  |    Krnjaca, Preševo, Sjenica, May 22 – When our translator Saker, in Arabic addressed the fifty year old woman who sat alone in the corner of the Asylum Center in Krnjaca, she immediately began to cry.  With the…

author: APC | photo: APC    Preševo,26. aprila – Riad is a teenager. He is only 17 years old. He's Syrian. He stayed among about twenty of 700 refugees, as many after the closure of the Balkan route were found in the reception center…

author: APC | photo: APC     Belgrade,18-april – Since the closure of the Balkan route, a growing number of refugees are looking for a way to break into Europe, arriving Belgrade through Macedonia and Bulgaria and staying in parks around the bus station. Everyday…

 author: APC | photo: APC     Krnjaca, 9.april – Nur only recently turned 18 years old, he is the fifth child in a poor Hajdar family from a village next to Deir ez-Zor in Syria controlled by ISIS. We met a frightened, depressed and…

autor: APC | foto: APC     Krnjaca, March 16 – Among the hundreds of tired, worried faces at the Asylum Center in Krnjaca, where refugees from Iran, Somalia, Morocco, Syria and Afghanistan, who decided as a result of the Balkan Route closure to…

author: APC | photo: APC   Šid, Belgrade, Preševo, March 4 – While in Ankara, Athens, Munich and Brussels they seek solutions for a refugee crisis that Europe did not see since WWII, at border crossings, people are fleeing, the living faces of the…

author: APC | photo: APC   Šid, February 23 – Happiness or luck is really a relative thing. There is no where you can see this more than among refugees. For these people, happiness is to escape the difficulties awaiting them along their journey. Luck…

author: APC | photo: APC   Adaševci, February 17 – Hejrat, only 5 days old, weight 2,700gr but today she began her journey in Adasevci with her mother and fiver brothers and sisters to Germany where she her father awaits. Our  APC/CZA team, alongside Gordana…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade, 21. january  – There is an increasing number of so-called economic migrants in Belgrade. Their numbers have increased since migrants who do not come from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have been denied further travel from Serbia. Thats why the…

author: APC | poto: APC   Belgrade, 20. january  – Little Ferhad, barely one month old, who fell seriously ill on his refugee journey from Istanbul where he was born, to Adasevci where his little body began to surrender from fatigue and temperature, left the…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade, 16. january  – At the Institute for Mother and Child in New Belgrade lies little Ferhad. He's an Afghan. He was born as a refugee. His mother, Sabra, gave birth to him in Istanbul. He is brought…

author: APC | photo: APC   Belgrade January 14 – Little Marko Sadat was born on January 10 around 5am in a hospital in Zvezdara. His parents, 21 year old Afghans, Atefu and Erfan, were very happy. He's their first baby. But it would not be…

SOURCE: RTV 23. May 2014. Asylum seekers who were placed in Obrenovac were among the first affected by the consequences of the floods, but as soon as the opportunity arose, they also came first to help.They were evacuated on Friday morning,…

Source : Naše novine  21. 05. 2014. People from Algeria, Syria, Senegal, Tunisia, Niger, Congo and Afghanistan have seen on television images of horror that befell our country and applied themselves to participate in the cleaning and renewal.Asylum seekers were…

Just during the last year at Macedonian border, 10 000 migrants were found - more and more popular route to EU through Croatia. Serbia could be under less pressure of illegal migration if the EU managed to establish effective control…