If you visit Vareš at the end of March, you must have noticed boys and girls in blue uniforms, with the coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina and lilies, cleaning green areas. They are members of the Scout Detachment “ZVIJEZDA/STAR”, who with their older colleagues cleaned almost the entire section of the regional road from Breza […]
Puračić, a small Bosnian town located in the north-east of Bosnia and Herzegovina with around 4,500 inhabitants, has been a place of special people, events and meetings since its inception until today. At the very entrance, you will be greeted by one of the symbols of the town, a row of scented linden trees over a hundred[…]
– I stayed in the hospital for 15 days. Nobody even looked at me until my husband came and gave the envelope with money to the doctor. The very next morning the doctor decided to pay attention to me and help me with my childbirth, – this is just one of the many experiences of mothers in[…]
The town of Janja in the extreme north-east of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a real example of socially useful activism in recent years, both by individuals and by non-governmental organizations, of which. There are nine non-governmental organizations in Janja. One of these is the Women’s Association “Žena” Janja, which was founded on April 4, 2003. However,[…]
Numerous women’s associations are active in the area of the Una-Sana Canton, which contribute to their communities through various activities, primarily through the preservation and promotion of the culture and traditions of the people from Krajina. They were created mainly in rural areas, during spontaneous and everyday gatherings, in Krajina. It was during such gatherings that the[…]
The unequal position, role, and therefore the rights of women in smaller communities in our country are often understood as a generally accepted state. In such surrounding, women who want to be more active in society seem to be expected to look for larger environments, where they could implement their ideas. In 2017, guided precisely by the[…]
The town of Hajderovići is located 12 km northeast of the town of Zavidovići. And that place would remain the same as any other, if a phenomenal group of women who called themselves the Association of Women “Pašinke” were not active. “Pasha” is a nickname for a man, the “head of the family” which in deeply rooted[…]
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[…]