KNIN, Jan 25 (Hina) - Some 800 families have returned to the town of Knin since its liberation from the four-year Serb occupation last summer. According to data provided by the government Commission for Knin, there are some 7000
residents in the town. Out of them, 1,195 are pensioners, 500 have job, and 230 - mostly new residents and demobilized soldiers - are registered with the Municipal Employment Office.
KNIN, Jan 25 (Hina) - Some 800 families have returned to the town
of Knin since its liberation from the four-year Serb occupation
last summer.
According to data provided by the government Commission for
Knin, there are some 7000 residents in the town. Out of them, 1,195
are pensioners, 500 have job, and 230 - mostly new residents and
demobilized soldiers - are registered with the Municipal Employment
Office. #L#
Returnee families are receiving help from the Office for
Displaced Persons and Refugees. If no one in the family has a job,
each family member receives 250 kunas monthly, and if someone does
have a job, each member receives 150 kunas monthly.
In cooperation with the Danish Red Cross, Federation of the
Red Cross and International Committee of the Red Cross, workers of
the Croatian Red Cross are visiting villages in the Knin
municipality and delivering food to old and disabled persons. The
Croatian Red Cross workers are always accompanied by doctors and a
social worker.
The Knin nursing home, which is part of the Knin hospital,
currently has 40 elderly persons.
(hina) rm jn
251950 MET jan 96