1.  Police commanders claim the area is too large and their resources too meagre to tackle the crisis effectively.

2.  Local authorities across the country have therefore been unable, and unwilling, to part with their own meagre resources.

3.  In desperate efforts to provide medical care for their sick children, parents usually exhaust their meagre resources and end up even poorer.

4.  Belgrade however is uninclined to take a new influx of refugees into Serbia, where meagre resources are already overstretched.

5.  Others have pooled their meagre resources to buy satellite dishes.