Caritas provides 36,000 euros in funding for agricultural self-employment projects

According to Catholic News Agency, Caritas Croatia remits its annual financial aid of 12,000 euros from funds raised during the Week of Solidarity of Churches and Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for a total of 36,000 euros.

The contract was signed by Fr. Tomislav Glavnik, President of Croatian Caritas, and Rev. Dr. Simo Maršić, Director of the NCM “Ivan Pavo II”.

NCM “Ivan Pavao II” enters the third three-year cycle of the agricultural education project in fruit growing “Iuvenes Fructus” in collaboration with the company Zorg In doo – Kornica. (2024-2026).

The direct beneficiaries of the project are young people interested in working in agriculture – twenty participants per project year (sixty in total). The project will also include 23 further training participants – 10 winners of the first project cycle (2017-2019) and 13 winners of the second project cycle (2021-2023), who work in agriculture and continue with the “Iuvenes Fructus” project.

Indirect beneficiaries of the project are students of secondary vocational schools in the project implementation area, school employees, exhibition visitors, social network users, participants of study visits, representatives of local authorities, guests at the project opening ceremony. The number of indirect users is estimated at 5,000 people.

The overall goal of the project is to promote employment and self-employment, escape from social difficulties, poverty eradication and retention of young people in BiH and sustainable return of youth to rural areas of BiH through development of natural potential and strengthening of existing agricultural production.

The project “Informal Professional Training of Young People in the Agricultural Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Iuvenes Fructus” is under the leadership of NMC “Ivan Pavao II” (www.mladicentar.org) and with the support of the Archdiocese of Vrhebosna.

The project is worth 416,930 euros and will last for three years. The largest part of the project is financed by the German Catholic Foundation “For the Peoples of Eastern Europe – Renovabis” with 346,000 euros, the Croatian Caritas Foundation with 36,000 euros, and the rest by NCM “John Paul II” own funds.

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