Centre LIVING UPRIGHT Novi Sad

25 Years of Work

On 19 September 2025, the Centre marks 25 years since the opening of its counselling service for psychosocial support to people with impairments, from which the Centre was founded in 2002.

Its work is focused on contributing to the creation of conditions for independent living for everybody and advocating for a syncretic approach to the achievements of all parts of the human rights movement.

Poster designed by Marinko Lebović

Personal Assistance

The Centre initiated mainstreaming of the personal assistance service for disabled persons into the Decision on Social Protection of the City of Novi Sad. This process lasted 15.5 years. Embarked co-financing of the service began in 2020. Since June 2021, the optimal level of this support has been co-financed, with the City financing only the gross costs of an hour of delivered assistance with ed funds, while the indirect costs of the service are co-financed with grants instead of allocated direct funds. All costs that the municipalities and cities in which the Center organized the assistance did not or do not cover, the Centre covers with donations and personal participation of PA users and its members.

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Other Outcomes and Results

Between 2000 and 2003, 700 people used its psycho-social support. Peer support has been used by nearly 350 people since 2009 until now, mostly about the realization of social rights. Education about the social position of disabled persons, equality in public speech, accessibility and other human rights were organized for members of marginalized groups, our families, representatives of civil society organizations, educational, health and social protection institutions, city and provincial services, the representatives of police, city committees of political parties, experts in the field of technical sciences and journalists.…

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Support Us!

Due to thirteen years of incomplete financing of the PA service, the Centre has been facing blocked accounts since 2014, continuously since 2017.

You may support the Centre in removing the blocking of the account by donating to account 340-5350-79. Here you can find instructions for payment from other countries.

Logo designed by Jovana Budošan.