Delegation 2022 - catch up and delivery of cow
Day 2: Cow delivery
sATURDAY 17 aPRIL 2022
A drive up the mountains was a new and very pleasant experience. The weather had turned and the biting cold was in stark contrast to yesterdays heatwave.
We made our way up the winding roads with Samir, the senior volunteer who oversees the identification and distribution of cows to families.
He stopped at a picturesque spot to point out his birth village in the distance. The view from the top was stunning.
The former German Pro Footballer then drove us to Gorazde and the river. The Drina River is a 346 km long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps which belongs to the Danube river watershed.
After enjoying the view we prayed at the beautiful Kayseri Camii Mosque before visiting Edin and his family of ten. Over the decades the clan have resisted pressure to leave their home and are seen as heroes.
Their cow arrived this morning and is happy and healthy.
Day 1: Our first port of call today was to meet Noura from Konjic Polge.
Friday 16 April 2022
She received a cow recently as part of the Bosnia Trust outreach programme.
She is very fond of her precious ‘friend’ and has named her Sharinka, which means many colours
Noura has benefitted a great deal from this gift and we feel blessed to have met her today.
We met the Muftis and Imams at the Memorial Centre in Srebrenica where we prayed Jumuah, performed Ziyarah and paid our respects to the dead.
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The Srebrenica Memorial Center and Genocide Memorial, officially known as the Srebrenica–Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the victims of the 1995 Genocide is the cemetery complex in Srebrenica for the victims.
We visited Osman and who has had a cow for seven months and we were pleased to see that she has given birth to a healthy calf.
Whilst in Burnace we also met Hayriya who has had her cow, fondly named Shara (many colours) for eight years. Shara is pregnant and this is great news to the family as it means that their livelihood will now increase significantly.
We got to see their ten foot well too.
We received a request for a fresh water well for a family in the countryside and very happy to share the good news that we have received a donation to cover the costs for this.
Tomorrow will be a busier day.