Bosnia and Herzegovina Program Updates

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Last updated: July 12, 2021

Suad Beslic (R) spends every available moment with his workers in his factory in Zivinice, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After Thriving Abroad for Years, Bosnian Returns Home to Create Jobs

Suad Beslic has returned from Germany to his home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to start a local company that manufactures fire trucks for export to Germany and other global markets. With his return, he has brought back hope for young people in the small Bosnian town of Zivinice.

Dragana Stojinić in her workshop, where she crafts wooden handles for tools in Prijedor, BiH.
A Woman’s Unlikely Business Takes Hold in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dragana Stojinić lives in a little village near Prijedor in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). To get to her house you have to walk or drive for miles down a long, unpaved country road. But this is hardly unusual. She is not the only woman living in the countryside of BiH.

Vesna Budnjar monitors the progress of drying mushrooms and rosehips in a drying chamber in Kalinovik, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
How a Bosnian Entrepreneur Overcame the Odds—and the Elements

Rising at the crack of dawn, getting to bed late at night, and in the hours in between, struggling to protect the only thing that fed her family and paid the bills—that is what Vesna Budnjar’s days used to look like.

Silvana Vidović with goods she baked in her kitchen in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnian Baker Turns Childhood Passion Into Business

Cakes and pastries have been Silvana Vidović’s passion since early childhood. When she was a little girl, she would sneak up, steal some dough from her mother’s bowl, and form it into all kinds of shapes for baking.

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