7,500 Kosovo families benefit: EU, UNDP help most affected by COVID-19

The European Union office (BE) in Kosovo and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today will officially launch joint activity to help citizens especially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is held at the Lapidarium of the Kosovo National Museum, originally at 2: 00 p.m.

The EU-funded Humanitarian Assistance Project (HAP), implemented by the UNDP, will provide additional human resources to the Centres for Social Affairs across Kosovo, 40 UN/workers and temporary support for about 7,500 families living in extreme poverty, distributing every month over the next six months, vouchers for food, hygiene and other necessary articles from May 2021.

Tomáš will attend the event Szunyog, chief of the EU Office in Kosovo/EU Special Representative Iron Murati, Minister of Finance, Labour and Transfers, Maria Sukoko, UNDP Permanent Representative to Kosovo and other EU Office representatives, UNDP, UNV and Kosovo institutions.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, The UNDP in Kosovo, like the key UN Team Agency in Kosovo (UNKT), is supporting Kosovo citizens and institutions to prepare, respond and recover from the pandemic, focusing especially on the most affected. We have hastily shifted the focus, reacting rapidly and efficiently and reoriently to help Kosovo help prevent the spread of the virus, protecting people from pandemic and negative impacts during the blast, and helping to improve economic and social recovery in the coming months.