Skopje, 10 December 2023 (MIA) — The 2023 Meto Jovanovski National Award for achievements in the promotion, protection, and advancement of human rights will be given in Parliament on Sunday to the Lice v lice street magazine and activist Borche Stojmenov, who refurbishes donated computers and gives them to those in need.

Lice v lice was founded in 2012 and is dedicated to promoting sustainable development, social justice, equality, democracy and humanity. The street paper vendors are people from socially vulnerable categories.

Kavadarci-born Stojmenov, through his "Donate a Computer" initiative, has been taking broken laptops and computers, refurbishing them and donating them to socially disadvantaged families since 2015.

The Meto Jovanovski National Award was named after Macedonian writer Meto Jovanovski (1928-2016) who was the first president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.

The award is given on World Human Rights Day, Dec. 10. mr/