The annual humanitarian banquet of the foundation for the year 2008 was held on February 23 in Mississauga in the premises of SKUD Oplenac. The evening was delayed due to demonstrations on the recognition of Kosovo’s independence by the United States, but people still came to support the fight for Stara Raska, for which there is still hope. And the hope and hope of the poor part of southwestern Serbia are precisely the children to whom donations from distant Canada reach every Christmas.
Donors mostly this year were members of the foundation, individuals and businesses from the Serbian community of Toronto and the surrounding area.
This year, another 500 children from non-income families in the towns of Raska and Sjenica received assistance.
On this occasion, as in previous years, Dragana Varaklic, the president of the foundation, invited all Serbs on the American continent and beyond to join the action of collecting aid for poor children in their homeland. The action runs throughout the year.