Updates

Tzu chi volunteers in Europe have continued to care for the refugees at the Obrenovac Refugee Camp in Serbia. Seeing that most of them had worn out their shoes, volunteers recently purchased more...

26.02.2016 – 31.03.2016 in Serbia Tzu Chi volunteers from 15 countries (88 volunteers in total)

Due to the closed borders of Europe, many refugees, especially from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan are stuck in refugee camps on the boarders to Croatia. As these camps were only temporarily made for...

According to the Republic of Serbia Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, there are more than five thousand refugees mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq reside in Serbia currently. As frigid...

In October of 2013, the government of Italy launched naval operations dubbed Mare Nostrum which has rescued over 100,000 people. In the first seven months of 2014, more than 87,000 people arrived by...

Following the full closure of the Balkan transit route on March 8th and the EU-Turkey Agreement coming into effect on March 20th in the continuing refugee/migrant crisis in Europe, tens of thousands...

On March 7th and 8th this year, an emergency situation was declared in 15 municipalities in central and eastern Serbia due to heavy rain on March 6th, causing flooding and landslides. In Lucani, one...

Civil war has been an everyday life for many who live in Syria with more than four million people having fled the country and more than half of the population becoming displaced from their homes...

**I. Background
** The Syrian Civil War started in 2011 and is still ongoing, creating a huge humanitarian and migrant crisis that has spilled over to many surrounding areas. The European migrant...

Shortly following the EU-Turkey Summit on March 7th, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia have announced the closure of borders to the transiting refugees hoping to seek asylum in the northern...

In the continual worsening situation of the European refugee crisis, more than 200,000 refugees mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have entered Serbia from the Macedonia border since June last...