About Us
People's Parliament is one of the oldest non-governmental organizations in Leskovac and in southern Serbia, founded on August 15, 1999.
Exactly 40 days earlier, founders of the People's Parliament initiated and lead, in that time, the most massive anti-regime civic protests in Serbia.
Almost immediately after these protests have ended, People's Parliament was officially founded and later, during November 1999, registered as an association of citizens. Already, at that very beginning, the organization was supported by hundreds of members and sympathizers.
During this period of time, People's Parliament mostly acted as a local movement gathering pro-democratic individuals and organizations.
After the democratic changes in the country that happened on October 5th 2000, in accordance with newly arisen political and social situation, People's Parliament was restructured into non-profit and non-governmental organization with clearly defined objectives and domains of operations.
When we look back, we can freely say that People's Parliament represents one of the most respectable and most active non-profit organizations in Serbia.
During eight years of existence, People's Parliament longed to help creation of favorable conditions for implementation of the democratic changes project in Serbia, as well as development of civil society and democracy, primarily in South Serbia, and in the whole country.
Today, as the organization that implements its programs in the whole territory of the country, People's Parliament implements activities of general social benefit in domains such as: Democracy and civil society, Youth issues, Local government and public administration, Non-formal education of youth. Most of these project are so called advocacy activities that promote and protect citizen's rights.
Since People's Parliament is a non-profit organization our work is funded exclusively through donations made by foreign and domestic donors.
Our work is/was supported by:
- Ministry of youth and sports
- Council of Europe
- European Commission
- Geneva Global Inc.
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Institute for Sustainable Communities
- Balkan Trust Fund
- Westminster Foundation for Democracy
- Royal Netherlands embassy in Belgrade
- United States embassy in Belgrade
- Balkan Children and Youth Foundation
- European Youth Foundation
- The Fund for an Open Society
- USAID
- Leskovac Municipality
- Companies and media from Serbia