EU have allocated 620.000 euros for the renovation of facilities damaged during the floods, compensation of damage in agriculture and recovery of agricultural production in the Municipality of Sid, as well as the construction of 13 new houses and reconstruction of additional 22 in the village of Jamena that belongs to the municipality, said Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport visiting this village, severely hit by May floods.
“In all of Serbia, village of Jamena is among the areas hardest hit by floods. This is why European Union invest efforts and resources so as to restore the living conditions in this village,” said Davenport during the visit he paid together with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
Reconstruction works that have just started should be completed by mid-December.
Davenport said that EU had so far donated 18 tons of fertiliser and 10 tons of seeds to farmers in Jamena, whereas it would donate agricultural machinery during winter and more seeds in spring 2015 for the next sowing.
Davenport said both the EU and he personally were very proud to be Serbia’s biggest partner in recoverning from the consequences of floods, and of the fact that the EU, in general, was the biggest donor to Serbia, having a wider cooperation with it.
“We have allocated over 155 million euros from IPA funds and other sources, including the Solidarity Fund within which Serbia was treated as an EU Member State,” Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia said.
Ambassador Davenport and Prime Minister Vucic have also visited several families whose homes will be renovated or constructed thanks to EU funds.
The German Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) is in charge with the realisation of the EU-funded projects of houses renovation and construction in Jamena.
