Stories
From the street to the front of the room.
The best proof we have isn’t a number. It’s the people we pulled off the street who grew up, came back, and now do the pulling. Here are a few of them.
Coordinator of the day center
Ema
Arrived from a family that couldn’t carry her, and grew up with us.
Ema grew up inside the center: eight years of breakfasts, school runs, the church, and people who didn’t leave. She moved through the children’s group, then started helping with the younger ones. This month she walked back in not as a child but as the coordinator, responsible for the next 35. Next year she wants to study dentistry in Brazil.
Every child here is a future Ema. €30 a month buys them the years it takes to become one.
From the street to leading
Nermin
Came to us off the street at 19, with no fixed address.
Nermin was living on the street, with nowhere to go, when he came to us at 19. He moved onto the Half Way Home farm, then came to work at the center, where we made him a job. He stayed three years, and somewhere in those years he found faith. Today he runs camps and does the photography and video for churches, here and with Christian organizations across Bosnia. The street had already written him off. Now he is the one building things for other people.
A story that started as badly as they come, and is ending well. Your monthly gift is what buys the years in between.
On their way up
The graduates
Four children finished primary school this year.
Gabriel, Mustafa, Adna and Angela, all Roma children from broken families, are heading to secondary school, most of them carrying on. One finished top of his class and is aiming for medical school. A kid who started on the street, aiming at medicine. That’s what a few years, a hot meal, and someone who believes will do.
This is the cycle mid-turn. Your monthly gift is what keeps it turning.
