IWC Funded Projects in 2018-2019 - Supported by the IWC

Serbian Association of Classical Guitarists, Belgrade: Guitar for All

The association organizes the International Guitar Art Festival ( read more... ) to promote guitar music. IWC funds will help provide a chance for adolescents from socially disadvantaged groups to practice guitar. Twelve young talented individuals ages 10-20 years from five towns will be provided with guitars and training for six months in guitar schools. Together with their peers, they will participate at the Guitar Art ...

El Sistema Serbia: Tomorrow Star(t)s Today

Music Art Project - El Sistema (ES) is a global movement with the aim to promote social inclusion through music education. It is present in 60 countries and reaches over 4 million children. In Serbia during the last four years approximately 600 children and music teachers participated in the project. With IWC donations, children from socially disadvantaged groups from different places in Serbia will be able to attend 4 months of music training in ...

Artistic Utopia, Belgrade: Performance "Words of Kindness"

Artistic Utopia, with its Hleb (Bread) Theater, is an NGO established by artistic activists in drama, visual arts, music, and performance and is dedicated to education through art with specific focus on tolerance and anti-bullying. With support from IWC, the group of artists will produce theater performances in Belgrade and ten other towns in Serbia for adolescents 12-15 years of age. It is planned that over 2,500 children will be ...

Art Aparat Association, Belgrade:Singing Shelter - Let’s Sing Romani

Art Aparat ( read more ...) is an Association founded by a group of artists, educators, and researchers. The organization is dedicated to supporting the social integration of children at social margins (street children, refugees, Roma and other minority children). With the support of IWC, Roma children at the Drop-In Centre in Belgrade will participate in 25 musical workshops where they will learn to sing songs in Romani led ...

Škart- Dam Daš Art Collective, Belgrade: Small Justices

This NGO applied various artistic programs to support inclusion and provide a unique opportunity to a vulnerable elderly population to improve their quality of living and bring the attention of society to their needs. With the support of IWC, regular monthly workshops will be implemented in three homes for the elderly in music, drama, arts and crafts. The NGO then will facilitate development of performances that will be based on texts, ...

FLOU Centre, Belgrade: Crafting for Success

FLOU is an NGO engaged in education for sustainable local development, environmental protection, entrepreneurship, and small businesses, particularly aiming to activate marginalized and vulnerable populations. FLOU implements a program in the fashion business by promoting traditional patterns in modern design. Within the project, FLOU will engage a group of women in a remote village in central Serbia and will teach the local ...

Udruženje Simeon, Pirot: Quiet Book

The Quiet Book project started as small family business for producing play items for deaf children. With the support of the Social Welfare Centre (SWC) and few donors is grew to become a small NGO that employs women from a small village in southeast Serbia. On the recommendation of SWC, Association Simeon engaged a group of women (some that are single mothers, others with disabilities) who will be trained in sewing and crafting the Quiet Book. The outcome is ...

Hajde da, Belgrade: Dance for Inclusion

The NGO "Let Us..." is a well-established organization that implements programs in the domain of psychological support and personal development for children both with and without disabilities. In this project they will train a group of 19 children in modern dance, taught by professional dance pedagogues with the aim to build the self-esteem of participants, enabling them to enjoy dance and to produce a video showing that disability does not have to mean ...

Umetnicko udruzenje Krancevic, Sremska Mitrovica: Compose Music With Love

The project involves concerts that will be held by four musicians at five different Senior Citizens Homes (SCH). Through a very carefully selected program, it is intended to improve the quality of life for elderly residents in SCH. IWC is providing funds for the operating costs of the concerts and for buying an electric piano, which at the end of project will be donated to the Music School. For more info see their ...

Primary School for hospitalized/home-schooled children "Dr Dragan Hercog", Belgrade.

The primary school “Dr Dragan Hercog” is a unique school in Belgrade - one without classrooms. Students are in the hospital for the lengthy medical treatments, in day care, in therapy centers, and at home connected up with medical aids. In specific circumstances they undergo regular curriculum to enable their further mainstreaming into the education system. IWC is donating funds for the provision of ...

"Children’s Hearth" Café/Boutique "Sounds of Hearth", Belgrade

This NGO has a very proactive approach towards inclusion by helping their beneficiaries acquire skills that will help them participate in the labor market. The organization runs a small cafeteria/artisan workshop-boutique where young people are trained in catering, sewing and embroidery, and screen-printing. They also learn how to sell their products. IWC is donating funds for the procurement of two sewing machines ...