completed PROJECTS
The purpose of this page is to provide a listing of the projects that TWI for the Children, Inc. has completed since incorporation in 1998. When TWI for the Children completes a project, the details of the project are put in this web page. Since 1998, TWI for the Children has completed many projects. Some of our projects have been small, some fairly substantial, but each of the projects have contributed to the welfare of Children in the Balkans. What follows are descriptions of the projects TWI for the Children has completed.
Completed Projects (as of 2008)
>
Media
Center for Dzemal Bijedic University Mostar
>
Humanitarian
Support
> Hrasno
- Neighborhood Reconstruction Project
>
Support
to Children with Disabilities:
> TWI
Workshops for Bosnian Physicians
> Ministerial Visit to the
Veterans Administration in Washington, DC
> Musical
Exchange Tour
>
Media
Library at the University in Mostar
> Support for Refugees
> Support
to Orphanages
> Dealing with
Post-Conflict Trauma - a Resource Workbook
> Educational Studies for Orphans
in the Balkans
> Balkan
Students Study in the United States
> Vocational Sewing
Project
Media Center for Dzemal Bijedic University Mostar
The
TWI for the Children
project in support of Dzemal Bijedic University was completed in 2001. This
project provided a television and VCR equipment to the Media Center of this University in
Mostar and books for the library. Review the journal of events where the equipment was presented to the
Dzemal Bijedic University in 2000.
TWI
provided equipment and supplies to orphanages throughout Bosnia and
Herzegovina. TWI also provided personal care items to orphanages
and small gifts as part of the Camp2Kids project. TWI
sent quilts to each of the orphanages in Bosnia.
During 2001, TWI for the Children conducted several humanitarian activities that impacted the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2001
TWI for the Children provided eye glasses for a young girl and prophylactic shoes for another child. We
also provided funding for mothers of disabled children to obtain
child care support while they attended training on developing a small
business.
In 1998 and 1999, TWI sponsored two
instructional workshops in Sarajevo and Mostar, BiH of a noted surgeon from
the National Rehabilitative Hospital to work with disabled persons suffering
from spinal injuries . As an adjunct to this activity, TWI hosted a most
successful visit of ministers from the Bosnian Ministry of Health and the
Ministry for Disabled Veterans to the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs. 
In 2000, TWI hosted a visit of three representatives from the BiH Ministry of
Health and Veterans Affairs. 
Children provided
48 boxes of clothing, school supplies and medical equipment to
organizations schools and clinics in Sarajevo. This shipment of
supplies was facilitated by use of military space-available air transport
from Andrews AFB to Sarajevo.
provided funding for a large Television set, VCR and DVD player for the
orphanage "Home" in Zenica. The children in this
"Home" are so grateful to Mr. Cozzi for his wonderful gift.
the help of the United States
Institute of Peace under grant number SG-200-01. This workbook contains
handouts from workshops presented at "Coping with Trauma Training
Workshops" in BiH during the period 1998 - 2002. Additionally, this
workbook contains an analysis of war-trauma surveys administered to women,
adolescents and children during 2002 to examine the affect of the 1991 - 1995
war in BiH on these three groups. Handouts from past "Coping with Trauma
Training Workshops" will prove useful to teachers, social workers and
caregivers working with people suffering from emotional difficulties and
learning disorders or who may have physical disabilities that lead to
emotional stress. The analysis of the affect of the 1991 - 1995 war in Bosnia
on women, adolescents and children provides an analytic look at the impact of
the war on these survivors. Surveys were made with more than 300 respondents
in BiH and the results were summarized and used to compare the state of
post-war trauma among these groups and to evaluate the impact of the civil war
on the lives of these respondents. This analysis is useful to researchers and
others interested in the after-affects of war on the survivors. 
During 2002, Boris Dereta was
a student in Phoenix AZ.
Boris has now completed his study and graduated with
an Associate in Arts Degree in Visual Communications. Boris is now married and
is in business in Arizona.
TWI
has also hosted students from Sarajevo University to work as interns at the National
Rehabilitative Hospital in Washington, D.C. Jasmina has completed her studies in Sarajevo
and became a doctor in 2004.
In 2002, the Vocational
Sewing Project for teens having to leave their orphanages graduated its
initial class of students. These students have learned basic sewing skills and
lessons necessary to obtain
jobs. The project provided scholarships to help the students while
attending the course. The students advanced to the point that they were able to assist the director in preparing her fashion shows and to prepare
small items for sale. Two of the students found new work. Also in
2002, our students worked to produce fashion items for sale in Sarajevo. Fashion
items produced in March 2003 took first prize in the 2003 Sarajevo show. 
