The donation is part of the “Family Support” project, which is being implemented throughout the region
Sarajevo, September 28, 2021 – AIK Bank and MK Group are expanding their traditional “Family Support” program with donations to maternity hospitals throughout the region. The project, with a total value of more than 700,000 euros, is being implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro.
Specifically, a total of 200,000 euros has been set aside for maternity hospitals in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On that occasion, the representatives of AIK Bank and MK Group held meetings with the relevant ministries, at which the health institutions that need financial assistance the most were discussed. It was agreed with the representatives of the FBiH Ministry of Health that 100,000 euros would be allocated to the maternity hospital at the General Hospital in Sarajevo, while the same amount in agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Republika Srpska will be donated to maternity hospitals in Prijedor and Gradiška.
Alen Šeranić, Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the Republika Srpska, expressed his satisfaction with the cooperation with MK Group and AIK Bank, which invest in the family, children and society as a whole: “We agreed that our joint teams visit the planned locations and find a solution for provision of the highest quality health care and the best possible conditions for mothers, pregnant women and children”.
Vedran Marčinko, Assistant Federal Minister of Health, said after the meeting: “This valuable donation will be used to improve the status of patients in the BiH capital through investment in the gynecology department of the General Hospital ‘Prof. dr. Abdulah Nakaš’ ”.
Jelena Galić, President of the Executive Board of AIK Bank, pointed out that she is looking forward to cooperation with both ministries on this project of interest to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“AIK Bank and MK Group have been implementing the Family Support program for their employees for four years now, which helps parents at a crucial time for every family, such as the birth of a child. This year, we decided to go a step further and expand it through donations to maternity hospitals throughout the region. In addition to health care, child care is one of the focuses of our group’s socially responsible activities, and in this way, we connect both segments. Investing in new generations is investing in the future of the region, and that is why with these donations we want to contribute to the improvement of the conditions in which new life is born,” said Galić.
The regional project Family Support through financial donations to selected maternity hospitals aims to provide better conditions for pregnant women, mothers and newborns, but also to provide long-term support to family policy and measures to stimulate birth rates in countries in the region where AIK Bank and MK Group are active. Over the past five years in the local communities in which they are present, they have implemented more than 500 socially responsible actions worth more than five million euros.
