Centre for Grassroots Relief Work
Zagreb, Croatia 
Suncokret
(Sunflower) was
founded by a group of young people,
mainly students, in response to the huge number of refugees
in Croatia in the summer of 1992. We started work in the
refugee camps in Savudrija, Pula and Gasinci, and still work
in these last two. Suncokret currently works
in 20 refugee centres with approx.
15.000 exiles and refugees. We have about 60 co-workers and a
variable number of volunteers, domestic and foreign.
Suncokret is
mostly financed by the UNHCR
and other international organizations.
Suncokret activities
- providing psycho-social assistance in refugee centres and
increasingly also in local communities (e.g. through
Suncokret clubs)
- cooperating in the development of various coordination bodies
of foreign and domestic NGOs
- providing legal, financial and accounting information
- providing councelling assistance to numerous small
initiatives
- providing information about the situation in Croatia,
in particular about Croatian NGOs (indirectly - almost 2000
foreign
Suncokret volunteers have went back home with their
own images of the
war
in Croatia,
and directly - continuous communication with various
organizations and individuals asking for information)
Related information
Suncokret
pages courtesy of LOIS (Ljubljana
Open Internet Server).