“Naša Srbija” and Banca Intesa organized the promotion of the charity campaign “Send the Friendship Card” on November 24th with the presence of numerous guests and the media representatives. As always, the promotion was the place where we announced the winners of the open competition for the motives of this year’s card edition. Our special guests were the children from Uzice, Sokobanja, Babusnica and Dimitrovgrad whose paint works were elected, and the representatives of the schools children came from. Talented children were awarded by Tatjana Tadić, as the patroness of this and many other activities and projects of “Naša Srbija” and Draginja Djurić, the president of the executive board of Banca Intesa Belgrade. As the general sponsor of the campaign, Banca Intesa awarded the winners with open accounts for children’s Bambino savings with starting bids of 5,000 dinars.

The director of “Naša Srbija”, Sanja Pajević Bundalo has addressed to the guests and presented the campaign and Draginja Djurić and Žarko Obradović, the minister for education have also underlined the significance of this activity. The event was also attended by Dragan Djilas, the mayor of Belgrade and one of the founders of “Naša Srbija”, Rasim Ljajić, the minister for labor and social politics as well as numerous friends and benefactors of our organization: Goran Ćirić, general manager of Post of Serbia, Velibor Sovrović, director of “Lasta”, Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo expert, Dragoslav Ilić, director of the Ovation BBDO, Milica Amidžić, PR manager in Telekom Serbia, Aleksandar Živković, director of “Vizartis“ printing, Zoran Milešević, manager of Jet Company, representatives from the Embassies of China, Spain and Cyprus.

The program of the event was hosted by Ivana Zarić and within the promotion the guests could see the exhibition of children’s paint works which have entered the shortlist for this year’s card edition. Also, all guests have enjoyed the performance of the children’s choir “Rašankice” from Novi Pazar.

As domestic organization which realizes various aid programs for children, especially those which cherish and initiate children’s creativity, “Naša Srbija” along with the big support of Banca Intesa Belgrade has started this campaign. The aim of the campaign is to collect funds by selling the crads. With these funds our organization will realize programs of financial and psycho-social support for our youngest population.
Within the campaign it was organized the open competition of paint works for Christmas and New Year’s cards edition along with the message: We think about friends. The primary schools from all parts of Serbia have participated this competition and we have received over 3,000 paint works. For this year’s edition it was elected twelve works and Banca Intesa has provided the printing of the cards as well as the prizes for the winners of the competition.

Awarded children

- Nikola Filipović, 11 years, Užice
- Nikola Milanović, 9 years, Užice
- Miloš Branković, 14 years, Dimitrovgrad
- Kasandra Pavlov, 12 years, Dimitrovgrad
- Darko Aleksov, 14 years, Dimitrovgrad
- Anđela Ognjanović, 9 years, Babušnica
- Aleksandra Đorđević, 12 years, Sokobanja
- Katarina Milanović, 12 years, Sokobanja
- Sara Vojinović, 14 years, Sokobanja
- Natalija Ilić, 10 years, Sokobanja
- Emilija Šavija, 11 years, Sokobanja
- Sara Milanović, 11 years, Sokobanja