Serbia Daily Report – February 22, 2016

Daily Report: Date – 02/22/16
Time Worked: – 2:30-6:30
Location: – Train from Preševo to Niš
Team Members: – 9

1. Dejan Dolašević – Medical Worker
2. Ljubomir Čolić – Medical Worker
3. Stefan Milutinović – Psychologist
4. Sanja Popov – Psychologist
5. Miloš Tomaš – Social Worker
6. Ivana Matejić – Social Worker
7. Marija Ghabin – Translator (Arabic Language)
8. Suzana Ghabin – Translator (Arabic Language)
9. Senda Boukadida – Translator (Arabic Language)

Project Beneficiaries

Ages

• Males: 0-61+
• Females: 0-61+

Numbers Served

• Males: 251
• Females: 213

Types of Intervention

Medical Interventions and Treatment

1. Lowering fever, dehydration, and medical examination of the babies in train (with symptoms like crying, vomiting, bloated tummy)
2. Providing vitamins for strengthening immune system, treating headaches (with painkillers and rehydration), sore throats and stomach aches

Humanitarian Aid

1. Providing water and food
2. Providing information about trip and about One Step Center in Šid and about process of entering in Croatia or EU

More About the Beneficiaries

Questions the Project Beneficiaries Asked:

• Do you have milk, food, water?
• Where is the toilet?
• Why is the train so full?
• Why does the train no have a place for everybody?

Items That are Needed for Their Work:

• More toys would be a good solution for making the trip more comfortable for children (balloons, drawing pencils and picture books, playing cards, dominos)
• Plastic charts with instructions for every wagon (i.e. where to get water, food, medical support, where are the bathrooms)
• Also charts with instructions for the train station (basic information related to embarking the train)

Brief Narrative from an RMF Staffer

What a Shift Working is Like

We arrived at Preševo at 2:30. We checked information at the Police Station; there were about 450 refugees at the One Stop Center. We established cooperation with NGO Care at the Station and they gave us 70 packages of food to give in the train to refugees.

The train has left the station at 3:00. We put families together in wagons. After that, each team has done medical examination of children and older people. They shared food and water.

We placed small and sick children in our wagon. Also, we placed six young girls in our wagon because they were traveling alone. Passing through the train was more difficult because of the number of refugees. In some wagons we had the assistance of refugees. They helped us share the food and water in the distant wagons. During traveling to Niš, most of the refugees were sleeping.

We arrived in Niš at 6:30. After leaving the wagons in Niš, we placed mothers with their children in our wagon.

Few male adults refused food and water (because they already had enough)