They have asked for more food and for shoes and clothing for the children, but they do not know when it will arrive. One family has been taken in by relatives in a small village house. Where four people used to live, there are now 10, including three extra children and a grandmother. One single bed has to be shared by five anxious children. The beds are wet because the children are uprooted and unhappy.
Nobody has a job, yet they insist on offering coffee and homemade brandy.
It is clear that the refugees have no idea what will become of them. The longer they stay the less likely they are to go home. The chances are that the Kosovo refugees will become, like the Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia, a permanent burden on the Serbian economy and a reminder of Serbia's military and political failures.