1. Bezdan-Spofondo- This project involved the purchase of medications for one year for approximately 20 bedridden elderly, ill and weak individuals who cannot take care of themselves and are not able to get to their medical institutions for treatment or therapy. The organization has a medical team that includes a physical therapist that visits the patients regularly and ensures that the proper medications are administered.
2. Svjetlo Project- Svjetlo is a NGO that helps people with mental retardation and special needs. HAC supported one of their projects that provided special needs children with monthly birthday parties for a year.
3. Kinderarche is a registered foreign humanitarian organization located in Ilidza with a day-care centre for 50 children from disadvantaged families.  IWCS voted to fund the handicrafts group teaching sewing, embroidery and knitting to disadvantaged women and giving them a hot meal on the days on which they met.
4. Doboj Refugee Camp- HAC has funded a greenhouse with plants, compost, and a watering system for occupational therapy.
5. Holiday food parcels. Again this year, we distributed Holiday food parcels to the elderly and most vulnerable families in BiH. This year we increased the number of parcels from 100 to 125; each included cooking oil, coffee, sugar and flour etc. With the help of VF store that assembled the parcels 107 were distributed by the Red Cross around Bosnia Herzegovina to Orasje in Northern Bosnia, Romanja, in the Republica Serbska and some locally in Sarajevo. Sprofondo delivered 18 parcels to refugee families in Rajlovac.
6. St. Joseph, the Worker, in Ljubuski, which is between Medugorje and Konjic. This charity is run by an 82 year old Nun, Sister Muriel and a lady called Mary Walsh. These two amazing women with their volunteers drive round to over 90 villages, seek out the destitute widows living in the most appalling conditions and deliver food and sometimes wood to over 300 homes, and then check up on them regularly. Against all odds they organised the building of an old peoples home which houses between 25- 30 ladies from all ethnic groups.

HAC donated funds for their food distribution, which took the form of holiday food parcels.

1. Gorazde Women’s Clinic Pilot Project -This is a pilot project based in Gorazde for a Women’s Complementary health centre for war victims, refugees and concentration camp victims, running for the month 12th February – 9th March. HAC was asked to fund the initial equipment necessary to set up the project. The data from this pilot will be used to seek funding to open and maintain a clinic in Sarajevo and ultimately mobile clinics to tour BIH, using locally trained Bosnian therapists.
2. HAC purchased two Physiotherapy Tables for a rehabilitation clinic in Tesanj for children with special needs.
3. Hearts for Children With Cancer Association.  Parents of children suffering with cancer at Kosevo Hospital have formed this association and   requested mattress covers for beds, blankets, duvet covers, towels, and pillows with covers, pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers for various age groups. Sometimes, because of the cost of the transport, children arrive at the hospital without their parents, and with no pyjamas or slippers. We also bought them a DVD player and play station
4. The Serbian Orthodox Church – Kolo Srpski Sestara. This is an association of devoted women of all nationalities and religions and has been operating for over 100 years. HAC funded 150 ‘Spring Baskets’, which were delivered by them to elderly and weak patients of all ethnic groups in April, similar to the ones we organised at Xmas time.
5. Joy of Life- HAC has funded sewing materials and two sewing machines to start up this social support-sewing group for mothers of severely handicapped children.
6. Physiotherapy Centre Grbavica have been funded with a year’s supply of massage creams, oils, gels etc. for use in massage treatments for handicapped children.  The centre teaches the mothers how to massage their own children, many of whom suffer from cerebral paralysis.
7. ‘Bread of St. Anthony’ – Kruh Sv. Ante. This is a charitable organisation run by Franciscan Monks since 1896 that operate 3 soup kitchens in the Sarajevo area. The one in Grbavica was opened in 2000 and feeds almost 400 people a day. HAC purchased a dishwasher to utilize the staff more efficiently and to provide sterile crockery for such large numbers.
8. A Large refrigerated tank, or Lacto freeze Machine was purchased for a small cheese business in Breza. This small rural business has increased its production of cheese form 20L to 700L daily over 3 years and its salaried staff from 1 to 11, plus 4 family members and 30 women involved with the dairy side of the business. New State legislation now requires milk producers to store all milk in a Lacto freeze machine to keep the temperature constant. Without this machine they would have had to close down

Since the beginning of August we have funded 4 projects, with a few more almost completed.

• Stolac is an agricultural area famous for fruit. We provided funding for a communal group called ‘Orhideja’ to buy bottles and jars, pots and utensils and design labels for their jams to market commercially.
• Healing Hands has been providing therapeutic massages for war victims of Sarajevo. We funded equipment and oils for their work.
• Children are forced to leave orphanages at the age of 18, and several boys and girls have resorted to prostitution to support themselves. 'Altius' is a new youth club in Sarajevo formed to help these children set up a computer and Internet centre. We are providing them with a number of used computers and bought them two new printers. Training will be provided to help them use and repair these donated computers.
• Folklore Costumes have been purchased for a multi ethnic youth dance group in Srebrenica. We were pleased to support a local tailor for this intricate work

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