Project Overview
More than one quarter of a million people were killed during the war in Bosnia & Herzegovina. A further 1.2 million were internally displaced and some 800,000 were forced to flee the country.

BiH suffered extensive destruction of housing, severe damage to its infrastructure and economic activities in addition to widespread incidence of murder and rape of civilians.

Islamic Relief began providing emergency relief in 1992. When open hostilities ceased with the signing of the Dayton Peace accord in 1995 Islamic Relief also began undertaking long-term reconstruction and income and employment generation programmes.

Project Background
A large proportion of the population is living an extremely precarious existence, surviving on relatively low levels of income of less than 100 euros a month.

These include returnees, orphan families, internally displaced persons and refugees, aged, sick and infirm persons, who are largely dependant on limited welfare benefits and charity.

Project Objectives
The aim of this programme is to deliver Ramadan food parcels and Qurbani meat to vulnerable sectors of the population.

• Microcredit

• Shelter

• Orphans programmes