Convicts and an employee of the support project for people with intellectual disabilities in Eastern Serbia

Employees and inmates of the District Prison in Zaječar joined the “Paper House” project of the “Rime” association, which provides support to people with intellectual disabilities in Eastern Serbia.

It is a project in which young people with intellectual disabilities are involved in the process of recycling used cigarette packs and producing paper from which thank you cards, invitations, greeting cards, drawing and decoration paper are made.

The director of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions, Dejan Carevic, said that the employees and convicts decided to support this project by donating packs of cigarettes because they need them for work in the day care center and the work-occupation center in order to make this project sustainable.

Tsarević emphasized that wider community support is needed, especially companies that can do it, to employ people with intellectual disabilities who are able to work, but belong to the hard-to-employ category of the population.

The institution in Zaječar, both employees and convicted persons, with this humane gesture drew the public’s attention to people for whom work in the day care center is very important for socialization, and at the moment there are 30 families who are referred to the work of this association, said Tsarević.

Tsarević also stated that the biggest Christian holiday, Easter, is approaching and that it is time to turn to humanity and send help to someone from our environment.

Convicts and employees of OZ Zaječar took part in cleaning up the house of a family with seven minor children whose home was completely destroyed by fire in February.

Convicted persons also showed their humanity when they prepared meals for developmentally disabled children in the institution’s kitchen, since they had previously obtained certificates for bakers while serving prison sentences in this institution.

Over the past few years, inmates of several correctional institutions in Serbia have donated money for the treatment of sick children, the purchase of medical aids, the production of bedding for maternity hospitals, and the feeding of beneficiaries in children’s shelters.