Our work
What €30 a month actually pays for.
Three programs that catch a child in Zenica before they fall. Here’s each one in full, the kind of detail you’d want before trusting a stranger with your money.
The Day Center
Two sessions a day, every weekday. About 35 children aged 5 to 15, most of them Roma or from families in deep poverty, get pulled off the street and back into school. Breakfast, a hot meal, a bath, clean clothes, a haircut, help with homework, a bit of music and play. A child can stay with us for up to six years. Ema runs it now, and she grew up in it.
- Breakfast and a hot meal, every weekday
- A bath, clean clothes, a haircut
- Homework help so they stay in school
- 1 social worker and 5 local carers
The Church & the Safety Net
Alongside the public services, we run a daily family-relief operation: food parcels for 13 families right now, and counselling for the ones in crisis. We also do something no one else in the city provides: a legal residence certificate, recognised by the police, that lets anyone without a home of their own, people who rent or have no fixed address, get an ID card. Without an address, on paper you don’t exist. 450+ people carry ours.
- Food parcels for 13 families today
- A legal address for 450+ people, recognised by police
- 40+ people housed through the (now paused) shelter
- 220+ school kits and scholarships handed out
The Valley
38,000 m² bought in 2010 and built up slowly. No electricity for the first three years, then light in 2015 and heating in 2018. The residential farm that trained boys in a trade is winding down as Walter’s mobility fades. What replaces it is bigger: a place that earns its keep, with a football pitch, bungalows, a campsite, camps and events, paying for the mission instead of waiting on donations forever.
- A self-funding activity and camps center
- Serves the church, local leaders and future missionaries
- Volunteer teams already coming (FR, NL, IT)
- Its own income instead of permanent dependence
Where your gift goes
Donations go to UG "Pomirenje" Zenica, our registered Bosnian non-profit, not a personal account. There’s no glossy annual report here; we’re a small mission. But ask us what came in, what went out, or how many children we serve this month, and we’ll send it.
