About us
Princip Humanitarian Organisation is an international charity supporting vulnerable families and communities across the Balkans. We believe poverty is not only the absence of money but also the loss of dignity, security, and hope.
Guided by compassion and accountability, we stand with families to restore what matters most: safety, stability, and the assurance that they are not alone. Our work is built on principles of honesty, responsibility, and respect. These values guide how we serve families and how we remain transparent with our donors and partners, ensuring every act of generosity reaches those who need it most.
This mission was not created overnight. It grew out of years of experience and lessons learned in the field. That is our story.
Our story
For years, we devoted ourselves to humanitarian work across the Balkans. We saw children growing up in cold homes without beds, mothers forced to choose between food and firewood, and families forgotten by the very systems meant to protect them. These experiences gave us a deeper understanding of daily struggles and showed how much consistent and reliable support is needed.
In that time, we took part in projects that touched many lives. We renovated homes in Serbia. We brought holiday gifts to children in Montenegro. We provided scholarships in Dalmatia. We supported families in Kosovo and Metohija. And in Republika Srpska, we began building a memorial church dedicated to innocent victims as a lasting reminder of truth and sacrifice.
Our team
We are a community of humanitarians, professionals, community leaders, and volunteers of all ages from the Balkans and worldwide. Each of us brings life and work experiences from both home and abroad, united by more than charity, by a shared responsibility to honor where we come from and to serve with dignity, honesty, and compassion. Guided by principles, we combine knowledge from the field with the passion of people who refuse to look away when families are in need, working as one to ensure no child and no family is ever forgotten.
Founders
Snežana Dimitrijević
Founder & CEO, Australia
Snežana founded Princip after years of humanitarian work across the Balkans, driven by the need for dignity, accountability and real care in aid. With a background in business management and hands on field experience, she leads programs, strategy and international partnerships.
Known for her persistence and directness, she sets the tone across the organisation and stays closely involved in every stage of the work. The team may tease her for never slowing down, but they rely on her focus to keep Princip moving with purpose.
Sava Vojnović
Co-Founder & Executive Director – Serbia
Sava works hand in hand with the CEO to oversee Princip’s operations and strategy across all regions.
With more than a decade of experience in humanitarian work, he ensures that every project runs with accountability, structure, and a clear sense of purpose. Known for staying calm in the most stressful situations, he’s the quiet balance to our CEO’s unstoppable energy and the reason we still have our sanity.
Directors
Andrijana Todorović
Director of Field Operations – Serbia
Andrijana manages Princip’s field projects across the Balkans, ensuring that every initiative is executed to the finest detail and with complete care for the families involved.
With a background in special needs education and social services, she brings empathy and precision to every stage of the work. The children adore her, the families trust her, and the construction workers test her patience daily.
Tijana Ivković
Head of Diplomatic Affairs – Sweden
Tijana leads Princip’s advocacy and diplomatic outreach, ensuring that the voices of those we serve are represented with truth and conviction.
With a degree in international relations and an unshakable sense of purpose, she brings focus and heart to every initiative. Never short of an opinion and rarely wrong when she shares it, Tijana is the spark that keeps our advocacy team sharp and fearless.
Darko Zoran
Director for Switzerland and Austria – Switzerland
Darko oversees Princip’s operations across Switzerland and Austria, connecting diaspora support with families in need throughout the Balkans.
With a background in project management and years of humanitarian experience, he brings focus, reliability and energy to every project. His Swiss precision mixed with Serbian stubbornness keeps everything running smoothly, even on the toughest days.
Momčilo Ivanović
German Director – Germany
Momčilo oversees Princip’s fundraising events and community partnerships across Germany, building strong ties that turn diaspora goodwill into real results for families in need.
With his calm leadership and practical drive, he’s known for bringing people together around every cause. His mix of discipline and warmth keeps him at the center of the action, and no one sells more Princip merchandise or gives a better haircut.
Petar Jurišić
Australian Director – Australia
Petar leads Princip’s work and partnerships across Australia, strengthening the organisation’s presence through collaboration and community engagement.
With years of experience in disability support and business leadership, he brings empathy and structure to every initiative. By now, there’s hardly anyone in his circles who hasn’t heard about Princip – usually more than once.
Nikola Savićević
Director for Creative Production – Serbia
Nikola leads Princip’s creative production, transforming powerful stories into impactful visual campaigns. With a background in film and media production, he manages every stage from concept to delivery, ensuring our message reaches audiences with clarity and emotion.
Known for his honesty and humour, he’s the one who reminds our CEO that not every idea can fit into a 60 second reel, a job no one else wants.
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Why We Exist
Across the Balkans, too many families fall through the cracks of existing systems. Strict criteria, limited resources, and short-term projects leave children and parents without the support they urgently need. We have seen cold homes without beds, parents struggling in silence, and families forgotten by those meant to protect them.
Princip Humanitarian Organisation exists to change that. Guided by principles, we stand with families who are overlooked or excluded, offering both immediate help and long-term support. Our mission is simple: to restore dignity, stability, and hope where it is needed most.
This is why our work is built around four pillars: urgent aid for families in crisis, helping children begin school with dignity, bringing joy during the holidays, and offering ongoing support so every child can grow up with stability and hope. These pillars are how we turn compassion into action and how forgotten families find their way back to dignity.
Transparency & Accountability
For Princip, transparency is not paperwork, it is presence. Every family we help, every home we rebuild, and every partnership we form is open to view.
Our work speaks through photos, videos, and testimonies from those whose lives have changed, not through staged statistics.
We believe that accountability begins with honesty. That means showing what we do, how we do it, and who we do it for, without exaggeration or hidden terms.
Supporters, partners, and local communities are part of that process. They see the impact directly, because they help create it.
In every country where Princip operates and fundraises, our registered charity status requires strict legal reporting, documentation, and transparency. These safeguards exist to protect the dignity of those we help and the trust of those who give.
Within Princip, decisions are reviewed collectively, funds are tracked from donor to delivery, and every team member is held to a strict code of conduct.
Accountability begins inside the organisation before it ever reaches the public eye.
Integrity is not something we claim. It’s something we show.
Where your help goes
Your donation doesn’t disappear into a system.
It becomes warmth in a cold home, light in a dark room, a reason for a child to smile.
At Princip Organisation, every act of giving is turned into direct, visible change. We show where help goes — through photos, videos, and stories from the families you’ve reached.
You choose how to give:
• Support a specific family and follow their story
• Fund one of our humanitarian projects
• Or let us send your help to where it’s needed most
Every contribution follows the same path — from compassion to impact, from intention to dignity.
Because if you don’t have principle, what guides you?
Be Part of the Change
Volunteers are the heart of Princip Humanitarian Organisation. From field support in the Balkans to organising events abroad and everything in between, every act of service helps restore dignity and hope to families who need it most. We welcome people of all ages and skills who share our values of honesty, compassion, and responsibility. As a volunteer, you are not just giving time, you are becoming a voice for the forgotten, a bridge between families in need and the help they deserve, and a vital part of building lasting change. Together, we can ensure that no child and no family is ever left behind.
