Using the polygon commercially Red Cross Zepce will be able to cover administrative expenses and provide food assistance to vulnerable people in the municipality. As a direct pay back for the CWS donation, Red Cross Zepce will provide food for 90 persons during six months from January 1, 2001. This is one of the first pilot projects to make a local NGO economically independent in the long term. CWS granted 5,210 DM to purchase computers and provide the Association with a three months' computer training for the 20 members. Overall number of beneficiaries is 100 women.
Computer skills make it easier for women to find a job.
This project is sustainable and can be upgraded. Mental Hospital in Sokolac. Patients and staff of the hospital worked on their land themselves to grow vegetables. Despite the dry season the beneficiaries secured enough fresh food for one year. This project encourages production activity and improves sustainability of the 300 patients of the hospital.