Bosfam was established in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina as a project to support displaced Bosnian women regardless of their age, religion, ethnic background, or education.
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12 Facts About Bosfam
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Bosfam's mission is to help war-affected Bosnian women and their families gain psychosocial and economic stability as they struggle against trauma, poverty, and misery.
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Bosfam operates on the principles of humaneness, impartiality, independence, and voluntarism.
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Goals and activities of Bosfam continue to include providing psychosocial support for Bosnian women traumatized by the war and loss of loved ones and helping them with opportunities for income generation.
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Over 60 Bosfam women weave traditional Bosnian carpets, knit sweaters and scarves, and crochet clothing and house decor items.
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Under this project, the women of Bosfam weave large quilts made up of individual panels, each of which commemorates a person killed or went missing during the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995.
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The quilts contain the victims' names, whereas Bosfam's website provides these individuals' photos, brief biographical information, and the date and site of burial if the body has been identified and buried.
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Bosfam has woven 15 memorial quilts commemorating nearly 300 victims before the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on 11 July 2010.
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In 1996, Bosfam started the project Love in Embroidery to make an embroidered cushion for each missing person containing his name, date of birth, and hometown.
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The women of Bosfam have so far made thousands of cushions, which are used at a peaceful protest on the 11th of each month – symbolizing the fall of Srebrenica which took place on 11 July 1995 – in order to show the immensity of the tragedy of Srebrenica and demand accountability for the mass crimes.
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Bosfam is currently working to open a counseling center in Srebrenica.
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Beba Hadzic, now the Director of Bosfam, says that the women survivors of the Srebrenica massacre are often misperceived as passive victims who simply sit and wait for foreign aid.
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