Mr. Momcilo Arlov, as the official representative of the Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon, accompanied by Mr. Milorad Arlov, President of the Organizational Committee for Assistance to the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and Mr. Petar Djokic, Minister of Labor, War Veterans and Disabled Persons Protection, during laying down of the fundaments for the business and residential facility in the Kosovska Mitrovica residence area of Bosniak Mahala, which will combine space for the Republic of Srpska Cultural Center along with the space for eight apartment units for social cases and offices of the Inter-municipal Center for Social Work.

This project is financed by the Republic of Srpska Government in the total amount of half a million convertible marks and it is estimated that facility will be finalized during the next 100 days.

Mr. Milorad Arlov stated at this occasion: “It is my wish, as it is a wish of many Serbs, that river Drina will never run out of its water, but that it will disappear as a border.”

During a separate meeting with the President of the Organizational Committee for Assistance to the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, Mr. Momcilo Arlov, while expressing full support to this project, especially in the part concerning the establishment of the Republic of Srpska Cultural Center which is to serve as a strong connection in-between two parts of our nation, also discussed and established guidelines for further joint cooperation of the Committee and the Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon, especially those concerning the assistance to the most vulnerable Serbs residing at the Kosovo and Metohija.

Official ceremony of the laying down of the fundaments for this facility was attended by the representatives of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, representatives of local self-governments from the northern Kosovo; whilst the greeting and gratitude speech to the guests from Republic of Srpska was delivered by Mr. Radenko Nedeljkovic, Head of the Kosovsko-mitrovacki County.

Mr. Momcilo Arlov, on behalf of the Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon, donated four purpose-built two sided book shelves for the school library of the Primary School “Vuk Karadzic” in Zvecan, as well as 248 books on French language which are intended to improves the teaching and learning process of the French language, as one of the compulsory foreign languages within the primary school curricula.

During the same occasion, Mr. Arlov agreed with Mr. Nenad Radenkovic, Director of the Primary School, to further strengthen cooperation in-between the Sovereign Military Order of Dragon and the Primary School “Vuk Karadzic” as the largest educational institution of this profile within the Municipality of Zvecan.

Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon raised humanitarian aid in cooperation with Parish of Saint George the martyr from Denmark and National Command of the Order for Denmark, leaded by Mr Aleksandar Hajder. The aid is consisting of over 150 bags and boxes of clothes and toys.

The larger part was donated to Serbs in Kosovo, especially in the northern part of province.

Grand Commander of the Order, Dejan Damnjanović, along with several members of the Order, visited monastery Banjska near Zvečan, officialy delivered aid to father Danilo, who is the abbot of the monastery.

One part of this aid was also given to the municipality of Sokobanja and to the Red Cross of Sokobanja. Aid was officialy given to the president of the municipality, Mr Dimitrije Lukić. We wish to use this opportunity to express our gratitude to Serbs from Denmark, as well as Danish people for their contribution to this cause. We are also expressing our thanks to everyone in our homeland for their contribution.

On the 10th of April 2012, Mr. Dejan Damnjanovic and Mr. Igor Marinkovic, on behalf of the Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon, donated the books for the library of the Center for protection of infants, children and youth in Zvecanska street in Belgrade. On this occasion, as a conclusion of the meeting with Mr. Ljubisa Jovanovic, secretary of the Center, were formulated the future plans of help of our Order to the Center.

The representatives of the Administration for Humanitarian Affairs of the Sovereign Military Order of the Dragon, Mr. Miroslav Nestorovic and Mr. Igor Marinkovic were, on the 8th of February, at a meeting with the officials of the Shelter for Children from the Secretariat for Social Welfare of the City of Belgrade.

At this meeting, the plans to help the Shelter were outlined. The priority in terms of helping the Shelter is to find or build an adequate building, considering that the space, which is currently used, is inadequate.