Bosnia and Herzegovina

Where we work

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Islamic Relief first started working here in 1992 during the Bosnian War. We were one of the first international organisations to deliver humanitarian aid and emergency relief in the country.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Food, clothes, water and firewood were distributed through our offices and warehouses. After the initial emergency response, we rebuilt houses and public buildings like schools that were damaged by the conflict.

In 2001 we set up an interest-free loans system based upon Islamic finance which continues to support unemployed people and provide real routes out of poverty. The number of business and housing loans issued by Islamic Relief is increasing every year.

As well as delivering development projects to improve the lives of poor people, we also focus on support for orphaned children. We provide psychosocial assistance to vulnerable children and their families, as well as a regular allowance that provides for their basic needs and enables children to go to school.

Srebrenica Genocide

On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb soldiers captured the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over the next few days soldiers systematically murdered more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.

It was the largest massacre carried out on European soil since World War II, and one of dozens of similar massacres committed by Bosnian Serb forces as they carried out their ethnic cleansing campaigns during the Bosnian War.

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