The Association Center for Peace Education has only been active for a few years, but their peace mission is extremely important for today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina, where peace grows on thin ice, and the hope and desire of young people to stay in their homeland have long been melted by warm winters. One of the founders and […]
“Working with people in the field is challenging, but also very inspiring. All our common small victories are an inexhaustible mutual motivation to continue working for our settlements, cities, for our country,” says Anita Šimić, general secretary of the Network of Active Communities, at the beginning of our conversation. This organization, created within the Tuzla Community Foundation[…]
The goodwill shop was founded by the humanitarian association Pomozi.ba and represents a good example of reducing textile waste. The concept is based on the fact that a part of the donated clothes is sold at bazaars, and the generated income is directed to goodwill restaurants, where food is prepared for the socially disadvantaged. Until now, nobody[…]
Author: Mladen Lakić In November 1999, a group of parents and friends of children with developmental disabilities decided to establish an association, the first of its kind in the Pale Municipality, one of the municipalities in the city of East Sarajevo. Today, 23 years later, the Association Sunce is not only the first but still the only[…]
Author: Edina Sećerović In a world where we are used to the frames in which society persistently puts us, the fact that our peculiarities are not understood and not nurtured since school desks, to divisions on multiple grounds – it sounds unimaginable, almost like a fairy tale, having a corner where everyone is equal regardless of religion,[…]
Author: Vedada Sećerbajtarević Carpe diem – Seize the day! How often do we repeat that to ourselves? Young people from Ilijaš are doing just that. That is why they named the association they founded in 2014 exactly that: Youth organization “Seize the day – Carpe diem”. Everyone in this city knows about them, because what they have[…]
Author: Elvir Ibrišimović We have witnessed that the post-war years in Bosnia and Herzegovina were not favorable to the workers. Bad privatization, low employment, dismissal of workers, and weak controls and supervision over the respect of workers’ rights are just some of the injustices that our society has been suffering for decades. Even the mass departure of[…]
“It’s fascinating to look into the pre-war past of Srebrenica. The same space, but in that period and today completely two different worlds. You see a place that is full of life, you see a developed industry, you see a normal, healthy social system, everything we don’t have today. That’s why such stories are very important, especially[…]
Author: Slađan Tomić For 12 years, the Association “Tračak nade” from Foča, as the only association of this kind in the region of Foča, Višegrad, Rudo and Goražde, has been providing assistance to children and young people with developmental disabilities. Although such persons existed before, they were completely invisible in their local community before the establishment of[…]