Successful ending of the project “Support to Sustainable Return and Reintegration in Serbia and Albania”

For the past 17 months, the International Aid Network IAN has been implementing a project of support and assistance for returnees through the Readmission Agreement, with the support of the German Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation through GIZ – German Organization for International Cooperation. Project was implemented in Serbia, and in Albania by the partner organization Albanian Helsinki Committee.

Through the provision of psychological assistance, psychiatric interventions and psychosocial support, the project partners contributed to the improvement of the quality of life and integration into the local community of over 300 returnees. Over 40 returnee families got a chance for a new beginning.

Psychosocial support for returnee families in Serbia was conducted through a network of volunteers – members of the Union of Social Work Students (USSR) of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

The successful completion of the project was marked symbolically by the distribution of certificates of volunteer work to future social workers who significantly contributed to the outstanding results of this project.