A Home Called Kulina
The Kulina Home in Southern Serbia in the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an institution for people of all ages with physical and/or mental disabilities.
A legacy from a time when those with disabilities of all sorts and degrees were lumped together and considered best looked-after away from the family; Kulina took people from birth to death, with coffins made and stored down in the basement.
Always desperately underfunded, the home never-the-less had warm and caring staff who formed strong bonds with their charges.
I went there shortly after what remained of the Yugoslav republic began to open up further in early 2001.
Snezana Antic stands in front of the women's ward at the Kulina Home