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SARAJEVO, December 14 (FENA) - Nine organizations in BiH worked with vulnerable categories of the population in the project 'Improvement of social services through the strengthening of NGOs in BiH', implemented by CARE International in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the support of the Government of the Czech Republic and CARE Czech Republic. The final partnership meeting successfully ended the three-year project, during which the vulnerable categories received support and care.
A large number of people have been employed through social enterprises. The position of abused women has been improved through the program of safe houses, the position of Roma population through the work in social enterprises, also the LGBT population, people suffering from cerebral palsy and dystrophy and other vulnerable categories in BiH.
Without regular sources of funding, the associations that bring together people suffering from cerebral palsy and dystrophy, a severe form of disability, which occurs during birth or in early youth, were on the verge of closing down.
Then CARE International started providing support. Since then, they have not only survived, but also significantly improved the work of their social enterprise which emplyos people suffering from cerebral palsy and dystrophy.
The project 'Improving social services through the strengthening of NGOs in BiH' has significantly contributed to equipping the Safe House run by the association 'Budućnost' from Modriča and supporting the care of women and children victims of violence, as well as advocating for important issues aimed at discouraging domestic violence.
The project supported numerous activities of the Sarajevo Open Center, including the provision of a "second home" as a safe space for LGBTI persons.
"During the three years of CARE support to the Sarajevo Open Center, we have had the opportunity to improve our work on various programs: women's rights program - through the empowerment of young women and work on the adoption of cantonal gender action plans and LGBTI rights program - through direct working with the LGBTI community, providing safe spaces, a "second home" for LGBTI people, in which they can freely express their identities that neither society nor their families accept in many cases," said Nejra Agić, the communications coordinator at the Sarajevo Open Center.
The project, which seeks to protect the most vulnerable groups, has been successfully implemented by CARE International in BiH, with the support of the Government of the Czech Republic and CARE Czech Republic.
The director of CARE International Balkans, Sumka Bučan, is proud to say that they have had visibly positive results that, in the previous three years, through the strengthening of civil society organizations, have made the lives of their users and marginalized groups better.
The project 'Improving social services through the strengthening of NGOs in BiH', over the past three years, has significantly contributed to strengthening weak social care, as well as access to rights and social inclusion for marginalized and most vulnerable social categories. A part of the project will be continued, with the support of the Austrian Development Agency - ADA.
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