Floods in Serbia: Help the people and children suffering in floods

Money donations:

Government of Serbia has opened this bank account for everyone willing to donate:

The assistance to those in need can be paid to the dinar account 840-3546721-89, purpose of payment: the removal of consequences of the emergency situation - floods.

The number of the foreign currency account at which the assistance for the removal of consequences of the emergency situation can be deposited is 01-504619-100193230-000000-0000.

Assistance to the vulnerable population in flooded areas in Serbia can be sent through SMS to the number 1003, for all three mobile network operators – Telenor, Telekom and VIP Mobile.

The text price is RSD 100, and the funds will be directed to the account of the government of the Republic of Serbia especially open to collect the aid.

More at:

http://www.srbija.gov.rs

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SEVERE floods have struck the people in Serbia these days, leaving thousands of children homeless, without food, water, warm and dry clothes. Roads and bridges are flooded, schools and kindergartens have been shut down, 100,000 homes in Serbia left without power, while rain-swollen rivers and surging water course through towns and villages, overflowing across streets into homes, causing landslides and other disasters.

These are the heaviest rains and floods ever recoded in 120 years.

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photo: People sit in a boat after being evacuated from their flooded houses in the town of Obrenovac, east from Belgrade D Aleksic