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BELGRADE -- There are 400,000 people in need of humanitarian aid in Belgrade alone, but international humanitarian organizations are providing aid for only one third of them.
The Belgrade Red Cross organization told Tanjug that the capital city was at present hosting 42,000 displaced persons from Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province and 171,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia who have been here for years, and that about 200,000 Belgraders are also in need of aid.
International humanitarian organizations are providing aid for only 112,517 persons, as they consider that the remaining 300,000 people in need are the responsibility of the local Red Cross.
As the need for humanitarian aid is much greater that that provided by the World Food Program, the Belgrade Red Cross is trying to manage on its own and trying to help above all the people displaced from Kosovo-Metohija.
These people need above all food, clothing, medicines, stoves, wood for heating, mattresses, baby food, etc.
The Belgrade Red Cross expects the International Committee of the Red Cross and other organizations to increase their aid in the coming months, as the number of displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija doubled in August and September as against June and July.