The  vast Vojvodina plain, the legacy of the Pannonian Sea, the arable land, and the endless  Vojvodina soul. People are quiet and working, proud of their plains. That broad soul proved in the nineties when the city received more than 25,000 refugees from the former Yugoslav Republics.In some Sombor villages, the number of the displaced persons were twice as many as inhabitants. This trouble passed, but others comes. . A year ago migrants from distant countries arrived in the plain. Patiently, with previous sad but useful experience, the Red Cross of Sombor became necessary for Iraqis, Iranians, Afghans, Syrians, Pakistanis and Somalis. All those who are raining away from the war, fears, sorrow, uncertainty waiting for better days settled 5 kilometers from the city.

Today there are 111 migrants, fourteen families with 48 children and 34 males in the Sombor migration center. In the pleasant shade of the plain, the migratory day runs slowly. Everyone would want to get to Europe faster, or at least Hungary. But the order is the order and only a few families leave for a week. Children go to school,for those smaller, an angle is being built for playing in the shade, the swings are already fitted. There is also a terrain for various sports. All that shortens the waiting time to pass through the next limit.

And the young couple from Baghdad are slowly passing. Maruva (27 years old) and Kasim (25) Saffai have got their son in Serbia. The boy was born in Nis 10 months ago. Kasim lost his parents and brother in the bombing of Baghdad. He and his family are hurrying to the Switzerland. They traveled to Serbia for several months through Turkey, Greece and Macedonia. His wife lists things what she likes in Serbia: these are the climate, the water is everywhere, and air conditioners work continuously, and not like in Iraq just foran hour. And the food is good, although it cannot eat everything. She wants to see as soon as possible at least Hungary and to forget the migratory days. But she cannot forget Serbia because her first son bornhere.

It's Ramazan and the meal is a little crowded. Some families are lunching, and some will wait for the sun to go to bed. Our interlocutors will become the first meal, in fact all three, will be raised at 18 o'clock. They do not mind them not to drink and do not eat all day, it is, they say easily, if they believe it.

And all migrants believe that better days are waiting for them somewhere else.The Red Cross of Sombor prepares meals for migrants in its brightly clean kitchen where it is cooked for the beneficiary of  soup kitchen . Three times a day, seven days a week, meals are brought to the reception center for migrants. On the kitchen and dining room, neatly affixed donor labels that helped the Sombor Red Cross to be effective. Volunteers and employees of the Red Cross of Sombor have a balanced, precise and, above all, a lot of soul care about migrants.