“The situation in Srebrenica at the time was unspeakable. You can’t imagine what it was like to be in that situation,” says Tima (right) from Potocari, Srebrenica, describing the horror of the Bosnian War. The mother-of-four fled with her children, escaping the violence but not the hardship that awaited when they eventually felt safe enough to go home. “When I returned, my house had been destroyed in the fighting. Everything had been taken from inside, and the house was devastated.”
Unable to afford the repairs, the family endured unsafe living conditions for years. Then Tima heard about our work repairing houses in Bosnia and Herzegovina and her family joined around 40 others benefiting from our latest project.
“Islamic Relief helped repair my home. They constructed a room, hallway and bathroom so that we could live comfortably. They even sent me firewood for cooking and heating,” she says. Since the end of the war Islamic Relief has fixed 1,100 damaged homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.