Call for Disaster Relief in Bosnia

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Can you distribute immediately please. Thanks.

Anne

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Bosnia is on its knees. Torrential rains in the Balkans that have led to 
the worst flooding in 120 years have left Serbs, Croatians and Muslims 
alike in need of urgent help.

The devastation is immense. Some 15,000 people have been evacuated so 
far from their homes in the worst-affected areas of northern Bosnia, 
where entire villages have been left under water. The death count is 
well over 30 and expected to rise as recovery operations continue. 
People are fleeing from the ground that is heaving, on roads that are 
being swept away, and many people have been forced to take refuge on 
hills and roofs where they are still stranded, waiting for air lifts 
out. Many tens of thousands of people have been left without food, 
electricity or drinking water. The landslides have created the added 
danger of dislodging some of the estimated one million land mines left 
over throughout Bosnia from the region's war in the 1990s.

We invite you to contribute any way you can: money, canned and dry food, 
blankets, personal hygiene items and diapers, clothing, shoes and boots, 
especially for children, and other useful items you can spare.

On Wednesday, 21 May from 13.00 to 14.00 Katrina Danforth will be in the 
parking lot of the Main Building with a representative of the Bosnian 
community in Trieste to collect donations. The donations will be 
distributed directly to the people in need through our personal contacts 
in the most critical areas.

Azra Nuhefendic and Katrina Danforth

katrina.danforth at gmail.com <mailto:katrina.danforth at gmail.com>, +39 349 
6161356




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