CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
CWS EMERGENCY APPEAL: Yugoslavia Relief & Rehabilitation
EMERGENCY ACCOUNT #6616
CWS goal: $100,000
January 16, 2002


SITUATION: Serbia currently holds the largest proportion of refugees and
internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe - more than 500,000 refugees
and 200,000 IDPs, many of them from Kosovo. Despite decreasing tensions,
positive political developments and increased interaction with the rest of
the international community, Serbia continues to face serious
socio-economic problems. While the poverty rate is estimated at 60
percent, international aid agencies are withdrawing from the region,
leaving the local population in despair.

RESPONSE: Recognizing the continuing grave situation in the region, CWS is
responding to meet the most urgent need of the long-affected population
and will fill in some of the distribution gaps in the reduced programs of
other relief agencies.


The CWS Balkans Program plans an emergency relief program for Serbia that
will focus on:

- Providing vulnerable children with high-energy food parcels,
  distributing them among children in collection centers, orphanages,
  hospitals and the poorest families.
- Promoting self-sufficiency by vulnerable refugees, IDPs and the most
  vulnerable families by supplying them with inputs for gardening and
  small-scale farming.


Specifically, the primary focus of the CWS relief program is to assist
approximately 2,000 vulnerable families with three or more children
through distribution of high-energy food parcels.

Beneficiaries - which include Roma children -- represent areas of high
refugee and IDP populations residing in collection centers and with host
families. According to official statistics for 2001, in Krusevac District
there are 1,875 refugees and 9,367 IDPs from Kosovo, including 2,959
children. In addition there are about 500 homeless Roma children in Borca
Novi Beograd and 1,270 social cases in Borca. The cost of each food parcel
is about $25.  Beneficiary selection will target vulnerable families with
three or more children.

The food parcel will be composed of high-calorie foodstuffs, important for
nutrition and necessary for healthy growth and will include powdered milk
and cocoa, juice, chocolate and nut spread, meat, chocolate, biscuits,
marmalade and sugar.

The beneficiaries will receive the food parcels during an organized
distribution campaign that will be implemented and monitored by CWS
Balkans and local partners.

Another group of beneficiaries will be low-income and vulnerable refugee
and IDP families who can grow vegetables in small land plots. Agricultural
inputs for gardening and small-scale farming will be provided to enable
these vulnerable people to provide for themselves and their families. CWS
believes that this type of relief assistance has an element of development
and is especially important for the future of beneficiaries.

CWS will provide 200 vulnerable refugee, IDP and impoverished families
with vegetable seeds, including potato, corn, etc., and fertilizers.  In
addition, CWS will pay a portion of each family’s rental and cultivation
fees for the half-hectare plot. Each beneficiary family will receive
assistance equivalent to about $150. The beneficiary families will receive
agricultural inputs through an organized distribution campaign that will
be implemented and monitored by CWS Balkans and local partners.

The program is for one year and will end December 31, 2002.


I.  BUDGET

ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
Description	Type of	No of	Unit Cost	Budget
	Unit	Units	US$	US$
Direct Assistance
High Energy Food for Children	    		          50,000
Vegetable Seeds					3,000
Corn Seeds					3,000
Potato Seeds					3,000
Fertilizers					7,000
Fuel for tractors					4,000
Rent for tractor and land					12,000
sub total					82,000

Material Transport, storage & Handling
Internal Transport Costs					1,000
Micro Distribution					1,000
Labour Costs for Loading/Unloading				500
Custom Clearance Fees					500
sub total					3,000

Staff Salaries & Support
Project Manager 25%					2,300
Office Rent/Utilities 25%					1,500
Office Supplies					500
Communications					1,000
Travel Perdiem					3,000
Fuel,Maintenance,Parts					2,700
Bank Charges					1,000
Audit & Evaluation					3,000
sub total					15,000

TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE				$100,000


For further details about the response, contact CWS ERP. Or visit the ACT
web site at www.act-intl.org

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE, Yugoslavia Relief & Rehabilitation, #6616, P.O. Box
968, Elkhart, IN, 46515. Phone pledges or credit card donations:
1-800-297-1516.

Call the CWS HOTLINE for updates: (800) 297-1516.

For further information about disasters to which Church World Service is
responding, contact CWS Emergency Response.

Telephone: (212) 870-3151
E-mail: donnajderr@aol.com
After-hours emergency pager: (800) 780-0853
Web site: www.cwserp.org


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