{"id":190796,"date":"2025-10-21T15:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=190796"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:45:07","slug":"nesas-friends-are-building-a-house-in-his-native-village-the-shepherd-who-spent-his-whole-life-under-the-open-sky-is-finally-getting-a-home-foto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nesas-friends-are-building-a-house-in-his-native-village-the-shepherd-who-spent-his-whole-life-under-the-open-sky-is-finally-getting-a-home-foto\/","title":{"rendered":"NE\u0160A’S FRIENDS ARE BUILDING A HOUSE IN HIS NATIVE VILLAGE: The shepherd who spent his whole life under the open sky is finally getting a home! (FOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For as long as he can remember, Nenad Puri\u0107, also known by the nickname Gr\u010da, from the village of Veliki Kupci near Kru\u0161evac, has also known about poverty. His mother left him, his father was an alcoholic, and his grandmother and grandfather raised him as best they knew and could. And Gr\u010da grew into a hardworking, honest, but above all, good man. However, burdened by numerous life hardships, he thought more about others than about himself. To earn a few dinars and help his grandmother and grandfather, he started working for daily wages since childhood, doing heavy physical labor, but also tending sheep.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My father didn’t help me, my mother left. My grandmother and grandfather were everything to me. When they died, I was left alone, like a stray dog. I never refused to work, I didn’t choose a job. Just to have enough for life, to survive. Only I know what it was like to earn all those bloody daily wages, but I never complained,” Ne\u0161a begins his story for RINA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not choosing his jobs, Nenad wandered from town to town, tending sheep and working for daily wages. What he earned was enough to survive, but this good young man, although he didn’t have much, knew how to share it with his friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About ten years ago, he left his village for Pe\u0161ter, to a village near Tutin, and became a shepherd for the Zorni\u0107 family. Today, a decade later, he is not just an employee in that family, but also a member of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“He responded to an ad I posted on Facebook. We took him in and Ne\u0161a justified all our expectations and great trust. He is, above all, a very good and honest man; during this time he has become as close to us as our dearest relative. He is hardworking and agile, we can always rely on him for everything,” says Hajriz Zorni\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Pe\u0161ter, Ne\u0161a has his own accommodation, a salary, and he is not hungry, but as he says, he often dreams of his old house, the hearth where he took his first steps and grew up. The fact that Ne\u0161a’s goodness was not forgotten by his school friends and that they have now decided to launch an initiative to build him a house speaks to how unpredictable life is and how quickly everything can change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We all love Ne\u0161a and remember him as a good boy, just unfortunate. We decided to raise money, buy bricks, and build him a home so he has a place to return to. To celebrate his patron saint’s day, to light a candle. We owe it to him as people,” say his childhood friends, who are already working on cleaning the foundation of the old house. Leading the initiative is Sr\u0111an Ga\u0161i\u0107, currently in France, who launched the aid collection campaign. “We collected money ourselves for the church construction, we will collect it for Ne\u0161a too. There is no one in the village who wouldn’t give at least a dinar for him to also restore his roof over his head,” said his childhood friend Marko Vesi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who wants Gr\u010da, that eternal shepherd under the open sky, to get his own little house, can help. With material, with money, with labor\u2026 however. It is enough to call Marko on the phone number 063\/8056-107. And maybe Ne\u0161a never had much, but now he at least knows he has the most valuable thing \u2013 people who have not forgotten him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source<\/strong>:<\/strong> RINU, Photo:<\/strong> RINA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For as long as he can remember, Nenad Puri\u0107, also known by the nickname Gr\u010da, from the village of Veliki Kupci near Kru\u0161evac, has also known about poverty. His mother left him, his father was an alcoholic, and his grandmother and grandfather raised him as best they knew and could. And Gr\u010da grew into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":190799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9287,7938,9288,167,1235,113,9289],"class_list":["post-190796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-cobanin-2","tag-dom","tag-nenad-puric","tag-selo","tag-siromastvo","tag-srbija","tag-veliki-kupci","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190796"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190879,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190796\/revisions\/190879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}