The Bihać city organization of the Red Cross, with the help of the organization "Balkan Route" from Vienna and the Italian "Ipsia", has secured and adapted the necessary space for a new meal center, where daily meals for migrants and refugees will be prepared and distributed.

The organization "Balkan Route" provided funds for a one-year rental and adaptation of the space in the Bihać settlement Vedro Polje, the purchase of a large refrigerator, as well as certain appliances. Significant help came from "Ipsia" in the form of food, and now we have an adequate space and all the necessities to distribute daily meals for about 1,500 migrants in the reception camps "Lipa" and "Borići", said the secretary of the Red Cross of Bihać Selam Midžić.

In this way, all the preconditions for preparing and serving two cooked meals a day for all service users in the mentioned temporary reception camps have been created and this should be realized very quickly.

-The Red Cross of the Una-Sana Canton provides breakfast every day, while so far we have taken care of the cooked meal at lunch. Now we have the conditions to prepare and introduce another cooked meal for dinner. So, in the new kitchen, we daily prepare up to 3,000 cooked meals- Midžić added.

He pointed out that the new kitchen will be at the service of the local population in case of need, especially if there is a possible drastic deterioration of the health - epidemiological situation and maximum tightening of protective measures.