TWI FOR THE CHILDREN
PROJECTS FOR
2008

This page provides information and links to  projects scheduled to be accomplished in 2008 as part of the overall TWI for the Children program to assist persons in the Balkans. Click on the link to learn more about the project.

 

Camps to Kids:

    New Jersey Synod camps for Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina -  21 June - 5 July 2008. This camp for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina will take 23 volunteers from the New Jersey Lutheran Synod to 14 towns in Bosnia. This large project will be split into two teams of volunteers and interpreters in order to cover the entire country. 

 

    TWI for the Children camps for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro - 2 - 23 July 2008.  This camp for children will concentrate on camps for orphanages in Bosnia and Montenegro as two camps in Northern Bosnia and in Srebrenica.

 

    TWI for the Children camp for Special Needs Children and Family in Bosnia.  TWI will host families and special needs children to a weekend retreat at the Monastery at Rama in central Bosnia.

 

Training Workshops:

    Training Workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina - May 2008. This project led by Mrs. Bonnie Miller will host three workshin Bosnia and Herzegovina in towns near Sarajevo.

    

    English Language Workshop in Jagodina Serbia - May 2008.  TWI will provide two participants at the Jagodina University workshop on teaching the English Language in Serbia.

 

    Training Workshops in Serbia - November 2008. 

 

International Studies:

 

    Balkan Scholarship Students. TWI sponsors three Bosnian university students at Anatolia College, Greece. One university student at Indianapolis University, Athens, Greece and one Bosnian student at Sarajevo University in Bosnia.

 

    English Studies at the Mostar Orphanage.  TWI is sponsoring two American university students with a TWI interpreter to teach English at the Mostar Orphanage in Bosnia in May and June 2008.

 

    Leadership Training Workshop in Montenegro. TWI is hosting a three-day leadership workshop in Montenegro for university students from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro to discuss topics of interest to students in the Balkans. 

 

Humanitarian Assistance:

 

    Learning Center for Special Needs Children in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  TWI financially helps to support the Learning Center in Sarajevo that works with special needs children and their families.

 

Balkan Projects, Board Reports for TWI for the Children

updated: 4/17/2008