FIFTY THREE SERBIAN ORPHANS AT SUMMER CAMP IN ATHENS

Belgrade, 26 July 2009 – HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation and Lifeline Hellas sent today a group of 53 children and 9 escorts from orphanages in Serbia, and Kosovo and Metohija to a summer camp near Athens.

By the courtesy of Municipality of Athens and Lifeline Humanitarian Organization Hellas, whose patron is HRH Crown Princess Katherine, 13 children from the orphanage “Mladost” Kragujevac, Centre for Social Care, Municipality of Aleksinac, Centre for Social Care, Municipality of Vranje along with 40 children and 5 escorts from Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija, will stay in the children summer camp of Municipality of Athens at Agios Andreas of New Makri, Attica, where they will be until the August 10.

HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation organized this journey due to support of Municipality of Athens, YUTA, UNIQA Insurance Serbia, Saljic melem, Klas bakery, Lasta A.D, Colgate – Palmolive Adria and Hellenic and Serbian Friendship Society, who all believe that such a trip for these children who need support and care very much, as well as contacts with their counterparts from Greece, will be beneficial for their health and development.