Republic of North Macedonia

Our work in Macedonia

In the Republic of North Macedonia JRS focuses on assisting asylum seekers accommodated at the Reception Center and in private accommodation. Foreigners/asylum seekers with the restriction of freedom of movement are assisted at the Reception Center for foreigners and refugees/migrants at the Transit Centers. 

 

The activities and services provided vary between each center and can be summed up as the following: 

Reception Center:

  1. Social protection
  2. Social corner (interaction, games, TV, coffee, tea, cookies, reading books, food supplements)
  3. Pre-school kindergarten; sports activities (football, basketball, Ping-Pong, athletic gymnastic)
  4. Free legal aid and legal counseling

Reception Center for foreigners (Detention Center): 

  1. Psycho-social support
  2. Food supplement, coffee, tea, cookies, Ping-Pong, social games, basic medicine support, basic hygiene kit
  3. Communication room; gym room manage by the JRS Macedonia
  4. Free legal aid and legal counseling

Transit Center Vinojug and Transit Center Tabanovce: 

  1. Social protection
  2. Psychosocial support into basic needs and services
  3. Social activities (interaction, coffee, tea, cookies), food supplements, basic medicine support, basic hygiene kit
  4. Free legal aid and legal counseling

 

Documents: Signed MoU with the Ombudsman; Written approval from the Director of the Public Security Bureau, Ministry of Interior for access in the Reception Center for foreigners, Skopje, and Signed MoU with the Ministry of Justice for free legal aid. 

Education
A teacher supports refugee students in Athens, Greece
Education
Advocacy
A JRS Romania teacher explains grammar to a refugee girl.
Advocacy
Emergency Assistance
Migrant children takes cups of tea served by a nun as migrants and refugees are registered by the authorities before continuing their train journey to western Europe at a refugee transit camp in Slavonski Brod, Croatia.
Emergency Assistance
Health Care
An immigrant sits on a window ledge while talking on the telephone at the detention centre in Safi, Malta.
Health Care
Livelihoods
Refugees attending a JRS livelihoods training in Uganda
Livelihoods
Protection
A sister accompanies a displaced woman
Protection
Psychosocial Support
JRS Ethiopia: Somali refugees perform traditional dances in the Dollo Ado camp, Ethiopia
Psychosocial Support

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A migrant at the border town of Lojane, Macedonia.
A migrant at the border town of Lojane, Macedonia. (Jesuit Refugee Service)
JRS Macedonia, in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, the Ministry of Interior, the Department for Border Affairs and Migration, and other Macedonian governmental organisations in an advocacy workshop to address restrictions on the freedom of movement of asylum seekers in the country. (Jesuit Refugee Service)
JRS Macedonia, in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, the Ministry of Interior, the Department for Border Affairs and Migration, and other Macedonian governmental organisations in an advocacy workshop to address restrictions on the freedom of movement of asylum seekers in the country. (Jesuit Refugee Service)

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