Presevo – The fire near the villages of Bustranje, Svinjiste and Ljanik, which are situated in the municipality of Presevo, burned down eight poles, due to which about 120 households have been without electricity for a week. The defect could be rectified over the next two to three days, said Vladan Veljkovic, the head of the Electric Power Dispatching Department of the Vranje Electric Power Distribution Company.
READ MOREDue to high daily temperatures and a lack of rainfall in the past month, the fruit grown in the Jablanica district is significantly reduced, while its purchase price is very low.
READ MOREThe damage caused by drought in the Jablanica district will be known by the end of this month, when Leskovac’s Emergency Situations Control Cente and the Directorate for Economy and Agriculture prepare a complete report.
READ MOREDrakce Stanojkovic, Head of the Department for Emergency Situations, said that the previous morning fire had once again engulfed "the surroundings of the Serbian villages of Svinjiste and Ljanik, which are situated five to seven kilometers east of Presevo, near the border with Macedonia, as well as the approach to the Albanian village of Oraovica, which is situated a kilometer north of Presevo”.
READ MOREAs of yesterday, helicopter K-32, which carries five tons of water and has a six-member crew, is on the Nis airport "Constantine the Great", where it will be ready to respond in emergency situations until September 15, 2012. Djordje Babic, Deputy Head of the Serbian Ministry of Interior’s Emergency Situations Department, met a delegation from the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Civil Protection, Emergency Situations and Recovery from Natural Disasters and said that the aircraft might be immediately engaged in fighting a fire near Bujanovac.
READ MOREThe UN PBILD Program, with its office in Bujanovac, continues this year one of its programs for a systematic development of gender equality in the local municipalities. Marina Babovic, the UN PBILD Program Coordinator for Integration, said that they were trying to incorporate the principles of gender equality policy into the system of local self- governments in the Pcinj and Jablanica districts.
READ MORESlobodan Draskovic was elected Mayor of Medvedja for the fourth consecutive term. Citizens surely have the reason why they entrusted the management of the municipality to him for the fourth time, while he explained why he had ran for the office for the fourth time by saying:
READ MOREYoung people in Bujanovac and Presevo got youth centers that should enable them to quickly achieve economic independence and potentially greater participation in decision making at the local level.
READ MOREAre you unemployed and between 15 and 30 years old? Do you live in Vranje, Bujanovac or Presevo? Do you want to be active? Do you have any work experience? Do you want to learn and find out about the opportunities for internships, practice and entrepreneurship? Get engaged in the "YouthBuild Serbia – Educated and Active Young People" project and become one of 40 young persons that will acquire the skills necessary for employment and local community activism during a six-month training course. Send your completed application form by September 3, 20122, to lirije@gradjanske.org and become part of the "YouthBuild Serbia – Educated and Active Young People" team!
READ MOREThe Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Youth Center from Presevo will present today in Bujanovac and Presevo the program for involving young people in social and political life of their local communities.
READ MOREThe overall goal of two joint programs that are implemented through one approach (PBILD), which are the "Promotion of Peace in South Serbia" and "Capacity Building for Inclusive Local Development in South Serbia", is to reduce the differences that currently exist between Jablanica and Pcinj Districts and the rest of Serbia. The implementation period of the project is until October 2012. The project is funded by the Spanish Fund for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Kingdom of Norway and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
READ MORETwenty-nine representatives of young people from secondary schools, the media and Youth Offices from Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo participated in a four-day seminar on Vlasina Lake, which was held from July 5 to 8 as part of the project "THE MINORITIES’ RIGHTS – THE MAJORITY’S OBLIGATION”. The seminar was implemented by “Generator” and Vranjske Newspaper”.
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