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Pharos e.V.
Rastatter Str. 22
70499 Stuttgart
Germany
Fon 0711-50436254
E-Mail
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PHAROS e.V. -
International Education Projects and Humanitarian Aid |
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Humanitarian Projects of
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A life in dignity for an
illegal mendicant |
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Verica is a citizen of Croatia and spent
most of her life as a war refugee in many European countries.
Over
the past years, she lived without valid documents in Sarajevo, in
great poverty and without adequate housing, in constant fear of
being arrested and expelled.
She was born in 1944, is single, and has
no children and family what so ever. She survived thanks to begging
and offering clothes from trash containers on the local flee market.
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Her life became so unbearable that she decided to return to Croatia,
although she had no place to go and no one to go back to.
Pharos supported her return and new start financially and through
social work. The guiding idea was that her new start should be in
dignity. Under normal circumstances, people like her are arrested
and transported to the border crossing. Pharos established fruitful
cooperation with authorities in Bosnia and Croatia and made sure the
necessary procedure were not harmful to her.
Verica left Sarajevo in mid-April 2009 and legally travelled to
Croatia to a small town where she had lived and worked in the
1990ties. She got her identity documents, health insurance and
social aid of 70 Euro per month. This is not sufficient to rent a
room or a flat, and local social institutions are unable to offer
free-of-charge accommodation. Thus Pharos purchased a second hand
automobile caravan, which she put onto the property of a young
family she had made friends with.
Donations: Pharos e.V. - BIC: VOBADESSXXX - IBAN:
DE61600901000365860000
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