Yesterday, we visited KJU Home for Children Without Parental Care Sarajevo to collect the artwork the children had prepared for a very special journey – from Sarajevo all the way to the Netherlands.
The Home was visited by Belma Mujezinović, Director of Foundation Second, and Sara Delić, President of Stichting Amanet, together with her daughters Adisa and Lejla.
The purpose of the visit was to collect the children's drawings, which will be presented on 27 September at Bosnian Ladies Day in Rotterdam. At its stand, Stichting Amanet will also present the projects it carries out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with Foundation Second.
Drawings with a special mission
The artwork created by the children will not simply be put on display.
Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase the drawings and, in doing so, support the shared humanitarian mission of Stichting Amanet and Foundation Second. The proceeds from the sale of the children's artwork, together with donations collected during the event, will be directed towards projects for children without parental care.
In this way, each of these drawings will complete an extraordinary circle.
Created by the hands of a child in Sarajevo, it will travel to Rotterdam, perhaps find a place in someone's home in the Netherlands, while the funds raised through its sale will return to the children through new activities, experiences and projects created especially for them.
Humanity is learned from an early age
Sara Delić came to the visit together with her daughters because she believes that empathy, solidarity and a sense of responsibility towards others are nurtured from an early age.
“I believe that from an early age, we should teach children to notice others, to be grateful for what they have and to understand how much it means to help someone. The best way to teach them is through our own example. That is why it is important to me that my daughters are also involved in what we do and that, for them, humanity is not just a word, but something we live by,” said Sara Delić.
The cooperation between Foundation Second and Stichting Amanet does exactly that – it connects Bosnia and Herzegovina with our diaspora around concrete projects and a shared desire to provide children without parental care with more opportunities, experiences and happy moments throughout their childhood.
Bosnian Ladies Day in Rotterdam will be an opportunity to introduce people in the Netherlands to some of the work we are doing together in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while also giving them the opportunity to become part of these stories themselves.
This time, it will not only be our photographs and words that tell the story of the children from Sarajevo.
Their drawings will tell it too.
The drawings created in Sarajevo will travel hundreds of kilometres away, while the support they receive there will return to where the journey began – to the children and the projects dedicated to their growth and development.