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Aim of our humanitarian projects is to
relief distress. Poverty and social vulnerability are always
consequences of a complex set of causes and circumstances. Pharos as a
small charitable organization cannot change them, but is able to make
life more bearable and human.
Our humanitarian aid projects are coordinated and administered
exclusively through volunteer work of its members. There are no
administration costs at all. The projects are funded in general
through private donations.
Pharos is offering its donors a lively and very personal first hand
reporting and an unusual degree of transparency in how the donated
money is used.
Overview of Humanitarian
Projects
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Human accommodation for homeless
elderly people
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Agricultural development project –
chicken breeding
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School transportation for children in
Eastern Bosnia
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Motor saw for war victim
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Human accommodation for displaced
couple
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School lunch project
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Administrative paperwork for sick Roma
mendicant
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Sponsorship for deprived children
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Young single mother with seven
children in Sarajevo
Bisera Malagić is a young
divorcee trying hard to survive with her seven children. Her little
pay as a part-time cleaning woman and state child allowance are by far
too small to feed her children.
Pharos has been supporting her
since three years thanks to regular contributions of five godparents.
Since the family became homeless
five years ago, they are living in a damp, run down basement of 19
square meters. The key problems are that it is impossible to find a
landlord who would rent an accomodation to a family with seven
children and that the family is not eligible for social housing
according to social assistance law in Bosnia.
The local humanitarian
organisation “Naša realnost” (engl.: our reality) has recently
succeeded to motivate the construction company “Miprogradnja” in Iliaš
nearby Sarajevo to build a house for the family at the company’s own
expenses. Pharos is financing the building site and permit and helping
with the administrative procedures.
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