The Department for international cooperation



The Karic Foundation - Moscow

The Karic Foundation in Moscow was founded in 1995 by Hafa Karic who is its president. The Foundation has a very wide and rich specter of humanitarian activities and actions in helping young people and organizing and sponsoring exclusive cultural manifestations and actions by Yugoslav and Russian artists.
The Moscow Foundation collected large supplies of medicines, clothing, and footwear as well as cash donations for refugees who fled from their homes in the course of the war in Croatia and Bosnia. It organized special actions for New Year's presents for refugee children, and it financed medical treatment for child victims of the fighting, who would otherwise have gone without.
Moscow branch of the Karic Foundation sponsors guest performances by artists in Serbia and Yugoslavia. The Foundation organized and financed the guest performance of the famous Bolshoy Ballet as well as that of the prestigious folk group Berjoska. It also gives scholarships and helps young talents, sponsors their participation at international festivals, provides funds for concerts and production of CDs and cassettes, organizes auctions and painting exhibitions.
The Karic Foundation in Moscow provides scholarships for 100 students from Russia and Serbia who are studying at the "BK" University in Belgrade and Moscow. It finances the participation of professors and students from these faculties at international symposiums and co-finances the organization of international scientific gatherings in Belgrade and Moscow.
The Moscow Foundation has made large donations to the renovation and construction of around ten Russian Orthodox Churches in Moscow and Omsk, then for the memorial complex On Prohor Field. The Moscow branch has also been donator to a number of Orthodox temples in the Ukraine. For all its work the Foundation received a formal letter of thanks from the Patriarch of Moscow and the whole of Russia, his Holiness Alexei.