An extended hand of God’s love.

The AGAPE humanitarian organisation

Within the Evangelical Church the humanitarian organisation “AGAPE” is also registered, with the task of carrying out the humanitarian and charitable work of the EC in Macedonia. That includes helping those who cannot help themselves, regardless of national, religious or gender affiliation.

“Agape” helps the persecuted, the lonely, abandoned children, the spiritually burdened, and everyone else whose spiritual or bodily cares need to be carried for them and who needs to be offered appropriate help.

AGAPE did its heaviest work during the Kosovo crisis and the years that followed, but it still serves today as the instrument for humanitarian projects and for helping socially vulnerable families.

The clothing centre

Within the Evangelical Church in Negotino there is a humanitarian clothing centre, through which socially vulnerable families are helped.

The centre opened on 5 April 2022 and is housed in a public building known as the former Health Insurance Fund. The clothes and shoes come from people and organisations who donate them to us; most are second-hand but well kept, and we hand them out free of charge to people in need.

The premises are open two days a week and are run by volunteers.

Donate or ask Rosanda Spasova-Caca · 075 450 372

Charitable work

The charitable work of the Evangelical Church in Veles has been going since 2017. It began modestly, but by God’s grace it grows year on year. We see it as an extended hand of God’s love to all people, whatever their background and standing.

It covers daily and monthly work as well as individual projects:

• food parcels for socially vulnerable families — over 70 families every month
• support and help for the People’s Kitchen — 20 hot meals every day
• scholarships for students from socially vulnerable families
• a funded IT course for secondary-school pupils
• money towards operations, treatment and therapy for children and adults
• home renovations, alone and together with other organisations
• two sensory rooms for autistic children built and equipped, at the “Maca Ovcharova” and “Vasil Glavinov” schools in Veles
• furniture, materials and equipment for the Developmental Counselling Service at the Veles Health Centre
• complete bedding, pillows, blankets, nappies and clothes for the Children’s Ward and Neonatology at Veles General Hospital
• a donation to the hospital in Jasenovo
• several thousand medical masks and hundreds of visors for the health centre, the hospital and the police in Veles
• paying off overdue bills for socially vulnerable families
• firewood for socially vulnerable people
• school supplies for children from socially vulnerable families at the start of the school year
• continuing cooperation with and support for the Association of People with Cerebral Palsy in Veles: food, funds, building an access ramp and more
• hundreds of Christmas parcels for children, every year
• clothes, nappies, cosmetics and food for the newborns of socially vulnerable and large families
• individual drives handing out hundreds of hot meals to people in need
• summer camps for disabled children and their families