Twice a year Deacon Joe and Felicity Rogan visit 120 refugee families living in an old army camp, Tasovcici, Capljina, 10 miles from Medjugorje, southern Bosnia Herzegovina. They take food, clothes, toys, art materials etc. Recently they have taken reading glasses supplied by Sight Station in London and these were a huge success. All year round they give talks, fundraising to build houses, to give these forgotten people HOPE and normal lives back ...

As Joe and Felicity make more and more contacts each visit, new friends and aid workers, they like to think of ourselves as 'links in a chain' putting other people in touch with each other, all for the benefit of the refugees.

There is a huge need in Bosnia and Bosnia is 'yesterday's news'. The War has been over for nearly 12 years yet people say things are worse now than at the end of the War. There is no benefits system in Bosnia and there are still a million refugees, ethnically-cleansed, displaced people, according to the latest Amnesty figures. All sides suffered in this War and they still are. People are too afraid to go back where they came from because the people who committed the atrocities against them are still there. Many people have been able to go back but there are so many who have not.

They live or exist in refugee camps or worse. They are not so far away from us. Croatia as a country seems to have recovered better but they have the wonderful Adriatic coastline and, with good reason because it is so wonderful, the tourists are back. Bosnia does not attract tourists in quite the same way and there is 60-80% unemployment, sometimes 90% which means some people are barely surviving.

If you are touched by this - please visit the following website aid2bosnia.org