Updated April 1, 2000
The Balkan Sunflowers:
Balkan
Sunflowers brings volunteers from around the world to work as neighbors
and friends in social reconstruction and renewal. By organizing social
and cultural activities, we exchange ideas and energy in order to promote
understanding, further non-violent conflict transformation, and celebrate
the diversity of the lives and cultures of the Balkan region.
Working for a few
weeks or many months, volunteers bring skills, experience and enthusiasm
to societies that have been depleted by conflict, and the volunteers are
themselves enriched by their involvement in community building.
Balkan Sunflowers
activities are intended both to achieve concrete results and to enliven
and empower the participants and their communities. Through play, art,
sport, work and celebration, and in compassionate response to traumatic
experiences, we serve the communities with whom we live.
Mercy Corps International:
Mercy
Corps International exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression
by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. In 1999,
we provided food, shelter, health care and economic opportunity to more
than three million people in 24 developing and emerging countries, sent
emergency goods and material aid to eight additional countries, and delivered
$93 million in humanitarian aid. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided over
$450 million in assistance to people in more than 68 countries.
InterAction:
The NONA Women's Center : http://www.applicom.com/nona/Story.htm
The Hunger Site: Donate
Free Food: http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/HungerSite
New York Times Article on Bosnia: http://www.nytimes.com/bosnia/
Peace Office Outpost : http://www.ddh.nl/org/poo/
Bosnia.ba Webpage: http://www.bosnia.ba/