Aid & Protection for Refugees in Bosnia & Serbia

Today, 1st March 2022 Amber Bauer, the founder and CEO of ForRefugees, trustee Ingrid van Loo and her husband Niul start a two week tour of Bosnia and Serbia to assess the current situation and required aid for refugees on "The Balkan Route". They will start the trip working with Collective Aid in Sarajevo. Daily updates will be posted on our social media and we will post to you, our wonderful GlobalGiving donors regularly to show just how much impact your donations have.

A note from Amber "We're going to the capital cities and border areas, in Bosnia that's Sarajevo and Bihac and onto Belgrade and Subotica in Serbia. We're looking forward to working with Collective Aid and No Name Kitchen. We expect to see very hard living conditions: lots of homelessness and squatting. We think the most urgent needs will be for hot meals and food packs/vouchers, clothes and shoes, hygiene and dignity items."

All necessary aid is purchased locally helping the local communities and every penny goes where it's most needed, fast.

While we understand and worry about the ongoing refugee crisis in Ukraine we ask you to please also remember that people from many different countries have been forced to flee war and torture over recent times and are forced to survive in terrible conditions, often for many years with only support from grassroots NGOs and their amazing donors.

The ForRefugees Family believes in helping ALL refugees, wherever that help is needed. We're honoured to have you as part of our family and whilst we know it is a lot to ask we really do need your support right now. If you can donate, even a small amount we will be forever grateful!

With thanks and warmest wishes,

Links:

• Our Facebook Page where we will be posting updates
• Our Partner in Bosnia
• Our Partner on the Balkan Route

PROJECT REPORT 2

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Thanks to your generosity and kindness, our continued campaign has now raised an incredible £5113 to provide clothes packs (approximately £7 each) to more than 730 people in need. As another difficult winter hit, these warm clothes have been needed more than ever. As before, the clothes have been bought locally in Bosnia & Herzegovina, helping a troubled local economy whilst also making your money go further. Each pack was bought and distributed by our incredible on-the-ground grassroots partner, No Name Kitchen.

We cannot thank you enough for your continued support of this campaign and the difference made to each person receiving the dignity of a set of new clothes.

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