Former Project: Macedonia

Support for World in Need was helping in Macedonia since the refugee crisis during the Balkans war in 1999 and withdrew from helping in 2011.

Following the emergency needs, SFWIN supported families in Skopje in the longer-term by helping to buy medicines and other essentials.

For 12 years, we supported an Orphanage of children run by Mother Theresa's Sisters of Charity. SFWIN worked to find sponsors for the children of this Orphanage to ensure they were given a basic education and provided with a healthy diet. One of our sponsored children ended up also attending University.

As many of the children that SFWIN was sponsoring in the Orphanage have now left and are working and living independently, and as the longer-term needs of those we had initally begun helping within Skopje were no longer necessary, SFWIN made the decision to withdraw from its projects in Macedonia in 2011.