The SNV team in Stip, Macedonia, facilitated a broad partnership between the municipality of Berovo, ProCredit bank, and GTZ, in the organisation of the Berovo festival program. About 50 producers exhibited and sold their products at the fair. Their efforts were rewarded as an estimated 15,000 people from all over Macedonia and abroad (mainly from Serbia and Bulgaria) sampled their goods and celebrated the feast of the Holy Mary Bogodorica in the monastery area of Berovo. The Macedonian President and the Prime Minister, from opposing political parties, were seen together in public for the first time at this festival.