NEFBiH's Genocide Aware. Campaign
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About NEFBiH:
New England Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NEFBiH) is a 501 C 3, Cambridge, MA based non-profit, community organization. NEFBiH is focused on promoting Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and heritage, as well as human and civil rights, through educational, cultural, genocide awareness and other programs. In its four years of existence, NEFBiH has done over 70+ events and programs, raising over $50, 000 to help those in need both in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Massachusetts area.
Some of its most notable projects include: Bosnian Born Art Exhibition, annual Genocide Awareness Campaign, BiH Festival, Bosnian Language School, Independence and Statehood Day Commemorations, Voter Registration Event, etc.
About the 4th Annual Genocide Awareness Campaign:
Our campaign started off as a simple online photo campaign, commemorating the genocide in Srebrenica. Four years later, our campaign has reached hundreds of thousands of people through virtual events and commemorations in Boston and Cambridge areas. This year, our campaign is bigger and stronger than ever before. The following events are included in our campaign this year:
* 5/1/16- Project Bread: Walk for Hunger – Team: I Walk for Prijedor and Srebrenica
*5/21/16-5/31/16- Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day
*6/4/2014- 3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day
*7/1/16-7/11/16- Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day
* 7/11/14-Srebrenica Genocide Anniversary Commemoration: "Što Te Nema?" MONUMENT
In order to organize these incredibly meaningful events, we need YOUR help to us cover the costs below! Please make a small contribution and spread the word. Your donation is tax deductible! Note that we have ZERO overhead cost, as our organization is run soley by a small, passionate group of volunteers.
BUDGET OUTLINE
-"Što Te Nema?"- Monument - $2964
-Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day - $100
-Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day - $100
-3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day - $450
-MISCLLENIOUS - $186
-GRAND TOTAL = $3800
DETAILED BUDGET PER EACH PROJECT
"Što Te Nema?", July 11, 2015, Place de Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
"Što Te Nema?" is a nomadic public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II: the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN- protected “safe area” of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July of 1995. Što Te Nema? is collectively assembled and disassembled by people annually on the anniversary of Srebrenica genocide, every time in a new location.
The monument consists of a growing collection of small porcelain coffee cups called “fildžani” that are continuously collected and donated by Bosnian families from all over the world. Their number increases each year, roughly corresponding to the growing number of bodies found, identified and buried to date. Through dialogue and conversation the public is invited to participate by placing the collected coffee cups on the ground and filling them with Bosnian coffee prepared on site throughout the day. No one drinks the coffee that’s being poured into the cups as this symbolic gesture of serving coffee to someone who is no longer here is meant to memorialize their absence.
"Što Te Nema?" Monument
*Please note that the cost of the "Što Te Nema?" monumnet vaires each year, based on the location and in-kind donations from the collaborating community.*
· $150 – coffee
· $364 – event insurance (a pre-requisite in order to receive a permit)
· $400 – marketing and advertising (posters, postcards, Facebook and Twitter ads, etc.)
· $500 - artist fee
· $250 - materials needed for coffee preparation (propane tanks, cleaning supplies etc.)
· $250 - 1st visit/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist (Aida Šehović)
· $250 - 2nd trip/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist
· $250 – 3rd trip/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist
· $800 – Hotel for the stay during the project
· TOTAL = $2964
Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day
About White Armband Day:
May 31st is the remembrance day of all the victims of genocide in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In May 1992, armed Serbian forces released a command for all NON-Serbians to mark their households by hanging a white cloth from their windows, as well as, to wear a white armband if they were to leave their houses. This further facilitated and helped identify non-Serbs to then be taken to concentration and rape camps, murdered, tortured, etc., which resulted in genocide and “ethnic cleansing” against more than 95% of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Catholics (Bosnian Croats) from Prijedor, and surrounding areas.
During the Holocaust in 1939, Nazis forced the Jews to wear white armbands with a blue Star of David. The white armband decree in Prijedor was the first such command after the Holocaust.
· $100 – Advertising (Facebook and Twitter ads)
· TOTAL = $100
Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day
One of the campaign participants last year.
The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness and honor the victims of whose innocent lives were brutally taken away. Over 8,372 hearts stopped beating in Srebrenica in a matter of just a few days but they continue to live in ours through our constant remembrance and honoring of their stories, and a continues effort for fair and just treatment of the genocide survivors and admitting and owning up to the truth: what happened in Srebrenica is a GENOCIDE.
· $100 – Advertising (Facebook and Twitter ads)
· TOTAL = $100
3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day
Some of our last year's event participants.
· $250 - marketing and advertising (posters, postcards, Facebook and Twitter ads, etc.)
· $100- posters (paper and cloth)
· $100 – 102 white roses (in memory of 102 children killed in Prijedor)
· TOTAL= $450
THANK YOU in advance for your help. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email redacted] . Make sure to visit our Facebook page at FACEBOOK to check out some of our past events. Our website can be found HERE (pardon our appearance while we are in process of building a brand new website).
New England Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NEFBiH) is a 501 C 3, Cambridge, MA based non-profit, community organization. NEFBiH is focused on promoting Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and heritage, as well as human and civil rights, through educational, cultural, genocide awareness and other programs. In its four years of existence, NEFBiH has done over 70+ events and programs, raising over $50, 000 to help those in need both in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Massachusetts area.
Some of its most notable projects include: Bosnian Born Art Exhibition, annual Genocide Awareness Campaign, BiH Festival, Bosnian Language School, Independence and Statehood Day Commemorations, Voter Registration Event, etc.
About the 4th Annual Genocide Awareness Campaign:
Our campaign started off as a simple online photo campaign, commemorating the genocide in Srebrenica. Four years later, our campaign has reached hundreds of thousands of people through virtual events and commemorations in Boston and Cambridge areas. This year, our campaign is bigger and stronger than ever before. The following events are included in our campaign this year:
* 5/1/16- Project Bread: Walk for Hunger – Team: I Walk for Prijedor and Srebrenica
*5/21/16-5/31/16- Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day
*6/4/2014- 3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day
*7/1/16-7/11/16- Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day
* 7/11/14-Srebrenica Genocide Anniversary Commemoration: "Što Te Nema?" MONUMENT
In order to organize these incredibly meaningful events, we need YOUR help to us cover the costs below! Please make a small contribution and spread the word. Your donation is tax deductible! Note that we have ZERO overhead cost, as our organization is run soley by a small, passionate group of volunteers.
BUDGET OUTLINE
-"Što Te Nema?"- Monument - $2964
-Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day - $100
-Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day - $100
-3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day - $450
-MISCLLENIOUS - $186
-GRAND TOTAL = $3800
DETAILED BUDGET PER EACH PROJECT
"Što Te Nema?", July 11, 2015, Place de Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland"Što Te Nema?" is a nomadic public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II: the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN- protected “safe area” of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July of 1995. Što Te Nema? is collectively assembled and disassembled by people annually on the anniversary of Srebrenica genocide, every time in a new location.
The monument consists of a growing collection of small porcelain coffee cups called “fildžani” that are continuously collected and donated by Bosnian families from all over the world. Their number increases each year, roughly corresponding to the growing number of bodies found, identified and buried to date. Through dialogue and conversation the public is invited to participate by placing the collected coffee cups on the ground and filling them with Bosnian coffee prepared on site throughout the day. No one drinks the coffee that’s being poured into the cups as this symbolic gesture of serving coffee to someone who is no longer here is meant to memorialize their absence.
"Što Te Nema?" Monument
*Please note that the cost of the "Što Te Nema?" monumnet vaires each year, based on the location and in-kind donations from the collaborating community.*
· $150 – coffee
· $364 – event insurance (a pre-requisite in order to receive a permit)
· $400 – marketing and advertising (posters, postcards, Facebook and Twitter ads, etc.)
· $500 - artist fee
· $250 - materials needed for coffee preparation (propane tanks, cleaning supplies etc.)
· $250 - 1st visit/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist (Aida Šehović)
· $250 - 2nd trip/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist
· $250 – 3rd trip/roundtrip train ticket NYC-Boston-NYC for the artist
· $800 – Hotel for the stay during the project
· TOTAL = $2964
Online Photo Campaign: Worldwide White Armband Day
About White Armband Day:
May 31st is the remembrance day of all the victims of genocide in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In May 1992, armed Serbian forces released a command for all NON-Serbians to mark their households by hanging a white cloth from their windows, as well as, to wear a white armband if they were to leave their houses. This further facilitated and helped identify non-Serbs to then be taken to concentration and rape camps, murdered, tortured, etc., which resulted in genocide and “ethnic cleansing” against more than 95% of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Catholics (Bosnian Croats) from Prijedor, and surrounding areas.
During the Holocaust in 1939, Nazis forced the Jews to wear white armbands with a blue Star of David. The white armband decree in Prijedor was the first such command after the Holocaust.
· $100 – Advertising (Facebook and Twitter ads)
· TOTAL = $100
Online Photo Campaign: 4th Annual ROAR for Justice…Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day
One of the campaign participants last year.
The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness and honor the victims of whose innocent lives were brutally taken away. Over 8,372 hearts stopped beating in Srebrenica in a matter of just a few days but they continue to live in ours through our constant remembrance and honoring of their stories, and a continues effort for fair and just treatment of the genocide survivors and admitting and owning up to the truth: what happened in Srebrenica is a GENOCIDE.
· $100 – Advertising (Facebook and Twitter ads)
· TOTAL = $100
3rd Annual Prijedor (Bosnia) Genocide Remembrance Day Commemoration: White Armband Day
Some of our last year's event participants. · $250 - marketing and advertising (posters, postcards, Facebook and Twitter ads, etc.)
· $100- posters (paper and cloth)
· $100 – 102 white roses (in memory of 102 children killed in Prijedor)
· TOTAL= $450
THANK YOU in advance for your help. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email redacted] . Make sure to visit our Facebook page at FACEBOOK to check out some of our past events. Our website can be found HERE (pardon our appearance while we are in process of building a brand new website).
Organizer and beneficiary
Edina Škaljić
Organizer
Cambridge, MA
Lejla Arapčić
Beneficiary
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