NEW VEHICLE FOR THE TRANSPORT OF DISABLED PERSONS

Donation worth 23.000 Euros

Belgrade, 13 July, 2005 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine delivered today at the Belgrade City Hall a new “Peugeot” vehicle for the transportion of disabled persons.

Beside Their Royal Highnesses, the official delivery of the vehicle was attended by Mrs. Radmila Hrustanovic, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Mrs. Zorica Pavlovic, Secretary of the Secretariat for Social and Child Protection, Mrs. Vesna Mandic, Director of Fashion Agency “Fabrika”, Miss Dragana Ognjenovic, fashion designer, as well as representatives of the Association for disabled persons.

At the beginning, Mrs Radmila Hrustanovic, Deputy of Mayor of Belgrade, greeted all the present and thanked Their Royal Highnesses for their great care for our citizens and their wish to include disabled persons in the life of the city.

HRH Crown Princess Katherine expressed happiness at attending for this important occasion and emphasized that the main goal of the Foundation, which is under her patronage, is to help the fellow-citizens that need help the most and to show them that they are not alone.

“We started to gather these funds in February, when we jointly organized the humanitarian fashion show, and put all the income into the fund for the purchase of this vehicle that we are delivering today to the Belgrade City Hall. I wish to thank everybody who contributed to the success of this action and in this way helped make the disabled persons feel that they are not alone and that this is their city in every possible sense of the word” – emphasized The Crown Princess in her addressing.

The vehicle was purchased from the funds gathered at the humanitarian fashion show held at The White Palace on 14 February 2005, where the models of our famous designer Dragana Ognjenovic, and the collection of haute couture by the fashion house “Egon von Furstenberg” were showed. The vehicle is part of the motor poll of the City Traffic that is regularly used by 122 members of the Association of disabled, and performs monthly around 3000 regular and 1000 irregular tours. This transport is organized in order to satisfy disabled persons in the most optimal way, but due to the lack of these vehicles some parts of the city are still not covered.