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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Hope endures

Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina

I have faith in God and people

World Vision support for child-oriented space helps one family cope with their loss “I regret that God took my mom away so early,” says 19-year-old...

Days of twenty smiles

World Vision organizes swimming lessons to improve the physical health of especially vulnerable children of Roma minority, 80 per cent of whom live in...

Rebuilding schools, future in Bosnia and Herzegovina

“World Vision enabled me to start a new life,” says Osman Mujdza. In 1998, two years after the end of the four-year war that ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Providing safe space for children in emergency

“My house fell into a hole” says five year-old Mersed. “It was this big!” he spreads his small arms as wide as he can, wanting to show the size of the hole...

No home to return to

Tiny rooms with two beds and closet, lit with white neon lights on army base near city of Tuzla are now home for 92 people who lost everything in record...

Floodwaters can’t wash away hope

Written by Nikica Reljic When the record-breaking floods hit Olovo, in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, World Vision teams were the first to respond by...

Floods take everything but the walls for one family in Bosnia and Herzegovina

When water started flooding her family’s house at five a.m., 18-year-old Seherzada woke up and ran out of the house taking only one important thing with...

World Vision delivers urgent help to flooded communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

More than 1.5 million people in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been affected by the worst floods the country’s recorded history. Rains and floods were...

World Vision responds to record floods and related damage in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Around 1.5 million people have been affected by heavy rains and floods across Bosnia and Herzegovina as the country faces the worst flooding in history...

Face of Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina

In March 2014, World Vision, together with its local partners, conducted series of workshops and street campaigns where Roma people, both adults and...

Our differences are our strength

In a country that is still experiencing deep religious and ethnic divides, a group of women sees their differences as a strength that helps them do good in...

Finding a way to survive despite daunting unemployment

In a country where the unemployment rate is more than 44 per cent, many families are struggling to provide basics for their children. These photos show the...

Sponsored child dreams of running with her friends

Day in school The best days of my childhood, I spend in school. Reading, Calculating, Everything goes well, For me, there are no obstacles. I draw, count...

Heifer Breza brings joy, hope

Sead, Nusret and Selma are three lively children living in a modest house on top of the hill, overlooking a little village, meadows and a green pine forest...

Bracelets that pay bills

Two years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that World Vision’s small project in Majevica Area Development Programme in Northeast Bosnia and...

Using Arts to Develop Children’s Potentials

In a small town in Jahorina Area Development Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina, World Vision uses art to help children develop their full potential. “We...

Celebrating Youth Activists

President of the “Damar Omladine” Youth Association, Edin Islamovic, is full of energy as he speaks of past and future activities of his organization: from...

Karate training gives kids with special needs a fighting chance at life in all its fullness

Karate training gives kids with special needs a fighting chance at life in all its fullness. “He says everything can be missed, except karate training,”...

An indoor bathroom for Vesna and her children

World Vision builds an indoor bathroom for six-member family of two sponsored children. “No one but us can know how it feels,” says 47-year-old Vesna...

Everybody is listening to us

A World Vision-supported project enables children to develop journalism skills which they use to produce a radio show and promote positive social values...

Education against tuberculosis

It’s another day in the field for 34-year old Jasmina. She enters a long and narrow hallway on the ground floor of old building. As she steps further into...

Women building better tomorrow

Organized with an aim to help women traumatized by war, a local women’s organization grows to much more. Just after the war ended, a group of women in a...

World Vision’s work partner wins Best Actor Award at Berlinale

Nazif Mujic, president of Roma Association Poljice and World Vision’s partner in the project “Back to School: Second Chance for Roma Children” won Silver...

Malik's Story: My Father's Jacket

Thanks to good people, there are more and more good pages to our book of life.