AMDA - Republic of Srpska AMDA - RS
A C T I V I T I E S
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Legend:
1. Shelter "Pinki"Zemun
2. Shelter Avala I
3. Shelter Avala II
4. Shelter PTT "Kosmaj"
5. Shelter Mladenovac I
6. Shelter Mladenovac II
7. Shelter Mladenovac III
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Project: period August - September 1999.
Project: Psychosocial help to refugees and displaced persons in former Yugoslavia with mental health problems. December 1999. - March 2000.
Presently thera are a lot of refugees and internally displaced persons in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. They live in collective shelters, private accomodation or with relatives and friends all over the FRY. These shelters usually have inadequate living conditions: they are mostly workers barracks or motels with limited capacity, but now crowded with a triple number of residents compared to what they are supposed to house. Due to the lack of space, in a very small room usually sleeps 5-8 people. A lot of people still are sleeping on the floor without a basic hygienic conditions. Kitchens are not accesible in any of the shelters, so the refugees and IDPs are completely dependent on food brought by Non-Governmental Organizations, Red cross and groups of volunteers.
The majority of these people were exposed to various drastic experiences of stress: life danger, psychological and physical violence, loss or separation from family members, loss of entire property, a radical change of the previous socio-economic status, uncertainty about the future, loss of control over ones life...
Our activities was directed to identification of refugees whose health might be impaired as a consequence of previous stressful experience and poor living conditions, medical, psychology and law support and occupational therapy such as lectures and counseling in Public Health and prevention of disease, life in collective accomodation, ...
Project: AMDA 2000.