Early years
A young child in Serbia can...
- Be delivered in a nice Baby Friendly hospital, with father being present. It can be placed on the mother’s breast and enjoy first moments of life in her embrace.
- Obtain the birth certificate (officially all)
- Be protected from diseases causing death or severe disability
- Enjoy family life
- Be stimulated to learn and thrive
- Enter into preschool
- Enjoy the benefit of proper feeding & be well nourished (majority)
- Enjoy the benefit of clean water and hygiene
- Live in a clean house
- Enjoy playing
- Be a cherished member of the society
but there are children in Serbia who...
- Are delivered at home, without any help of health workers (officially 2%, but it is estimated to be higher).
- Remain without registration (UNICEF discovers thousands)
- Are suffering and dying from vaccine preventable diseases (10%)
- Do not have parental care and accommodated in an institution (over 5,000)
- Are deprived of stimulation & prosperity
- Remain without access to any form of organised preschool education
- Have only occasional meal and become malnourished
- Have poor access to clean water and good sanitary conditions
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© UNICEF Serbia / Zoran Jovanovic Maccak |
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Happy parents of Tara, born 15 minutes ago, at UNICEF-supported baby-friendly hospital, Belgrade |
Live in a shed
Be deprived of play, because one has to work for survival
Be discriminated due to one’s ethnic origin, poverty, living in remote areas or in refugee status
Let us create the environment where every child enjoys the same rights!
