August 10 (SeeNews) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will support Serbia with a $1.3 million (1.2 million euro) project to help manucipalities cope with infrastructure and services issues related to the migrant crisis, the US ambassy in Belgrade said.
The 20-month project, called Enhancing Local Resilience to the Migration Crisis, will focus on waste management, water supply, sewage and wastewater treatment. It will also strengthen local social and health services, the embassy said on Tuesday.
This is USAID’s second project to help Serbian communities cope with the crisis. It extended $700,000 in March to the Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation for an eighteen-month project called Support for Local Response to Refugee Crisis.
According to the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, around 600,000 migrants have passed trough Serbia in the last year on their way to the EU. Currently, there are more than 2,000 refugees in camps or in reception centres in the country.
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