Today, Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic and Minister for Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin visited the refurbished studio for the recording of textbooks for pupils and students and of new audio books, which is part of the “Dr. Milan Budimir” Union of the Blind of Serbia Library. The Union of the Blind of Serbia had won little over 1.6 million dinars for the refurbishment of their studio in the Ministry of Justice-organised Call for the allocation of funds collected from opportunity (uninitiated criminal prosecutions).

On the occasion, Kuburovic stated that the Call was advertised at the beginning of 2016 and that the total awarded funds amounted to over 350 million dinars. She stressed that the largest sum was allocated to health and educational institutions and secondly to social institutions, of which there had been 26. “We hope that everyone will have a chance to again participate in the Call which the Ministry of Justice will advertise at the beginning of next year, considering that large amounts of opportunity money have also been collected during 2016“, Kuburovic stated.

Minister Vulin thanked the Ministry of Justice since 80 million dinars had been allocated for social welfare. “This is a tremendous amount of money and we are pleased that in the future we will be able to cooperate with the Ministry of Justice, so to enable people with the greatest need for assistance to count on it”, Vulin emphasised.

The President of the Union of the Blind of Serbia Milan Stosic said that state-of-the-art equipment for the recording of textbooks and books had been purchased with the help of the two ministries, something he explained as being very important to the blind whose greatest reward after losing their sight was [gaining] knowledge. The “Dr. Milan Budimir” Union of the Blind of Serbia Library was first opened in 1971 as a successor of previous institutions which were in the business of printing books in the Braille alphabet and recording audio books. Today, it runs as part of the Union of the Blind of Serbia.