At yesterday’s session, the Government of Canton Sarajevo (CS), at the proposal of the Ministry of Labor, Social Policy, Displaced Persons, and Refugees of CS passed the Decree amending the Decree on the recognition of the right to hot meals in soup kitchens of the CS.
Amendments to the decree have enabled food in soup kitchens to be provided to the youngest, that is children up to one year of age, but also that the hot meal for the beneficiaries is enriched with fresh fruit, Klix.ba writes.
”In the challenging time of rising food prices on the market, it is important that we provide strong support for the functioning of soup kitchens. The Ministry especially recognized the need to propose an amendment to the Decree, in order to provide food for our youngest fellow citizens, which has not been the case so far. Within our competencies and financial possibilities, we continue to implement activities that will improve the social protection system,” Minister Ivana Prvulovic pointed out.
We remind you that these soup kitchens operate in CS according with the Decree: Central Soup Kitchen – Red Cross of CS, SoupKitchen “Merhamet”, Soup Kitchen “Kruh svetog Ante”, SoupKitchen “Stari Grad” Sarajevo, Soup Kitchen “Jelo na kotacima” – Caritas of the Vrhbosna Archdiocese and Soup Kitchen “Dobrotvor”, and whose work is financed from the budget of the CS.
This year, over 2.6 million BAM have been set aside to finance the work of soup kitchens with checkpoints in Sarajevo.
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