he EU Ambassador Michael Davanport marked the completion of the reconstruction of the Elementary School “Jovan Jovanović Zmaj“. The European Union funded the reconstruction of this flood-hit school and provided the furniture in the amount of some 216,000 Euros.
The rehabilitation of 15 classrooms, gym, library, kitchen and the dining room, six administrative offices and the archive enabled normal conditions for learning to 1,350 pupils.
The works included plastering, flooring, replacement of the damaged internal joinery, rehabilitation of the external windows and doors, dismantling and painting of the radiators as well as replacement of the valves in the ground floor.
In addition, all electrical installations on the ground floor; equipment in the heating substation and some 200 metres of the surrounding fence were replaced and the facade was rehabilitated.
Seventy-seven houses in Obrenovac, Krupanj, Svilajnac, Varvarin, Paraćin, Gornji Milanovac, Bajina Bašta, Šid, Smederevo, Smederevska Palanka, Loznica, Ruma and Mionica have been constructed, while 685 flood affected homes have been rehablitated in Obrenovac, Krupanj, Kraljevo, Lazarevac, Svilajnac, Trstenik, Varvarin, Valjevo, Mali Zvornik, Ljubovija, Šabac, Bajina Bašta, Šid, Loznica, Smederevska Palanka, Velika Plana, Čačak, Ub, Koceljeva, Jagodina and Paraćin.
The construction works are in the finishing stage on some 40 family houses. This is the part of private housing reconstruction process for the total of some 950 in 30 municipalities funded through the European Union Assistance for Flood Relief in Serbia Programme which is well underway.
EU Flood Relief – Weekly Communications Update 29 Jan 2015.doc
