Help my school I survived a war at

Once again I would like to say THANK YOU for all of your kind donation. 
The kids will receive a good education in warm classrooms.
You have participated in bringing smiles on young people's faces.

They will always remember your kind donation for the rest of their life...


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Dear friends, family and the rest of the kind people in the World,

I am urging you to help us with this pledge! My name is Mirsad Solakovic; I am originally from Bosnia who came over with my close family to U.K. in 1992 fleeing from the conflict. I am the author of the book: ‘The Boy Who Said Nothing.’


The Back Story:

‘My memories of Bosnia as a child are still vivid, embodied in my heart and soul same as ink on a paper.’My school: Osnovna Skola Bratstvo Trnopolje has a very meaningful memories for me and many other people from our town Kozarac in Bosnia and the Bosnian diaspora in the World.

“I would imagine only those people that have managed to read my second book: ‘The Boy Who Said Nothing’, will have a clear idea what I am talking about.”‘The school has still saved me as a thirteen years old child and gave me the second chance to live.’


As much as this was a tragic and difficult place for me and a lot of Bosnian people during the war, it has a monumental value to our lives, for those affected by the war.At least now we are glad that the war has stopped and the school has returned to be school again for the kids to receive their education and to be their second home.

 
As we are all aware with my current book affairs; the first book of poetry has given me a  good platform to attract the publisher like John Blake and co-writer Cass Pennant who made sure that this second book, my autobiography has crossed the line and made further success. We have written passionately about my first childhood school: Osnovna Skola Bratstvo Trnopolje in Trnopolje where I have received my first education and met some good and wonderful people.


In so many ways that story is very symbolic for during the Bosnian Serbian conflict the school became a very significant collective centre where decisions were made who will live and who will die. The journalist Ed-Villiamy had discovered that place not as a school, but as a ‘Concentration camp’ in Trnopolje and it became a tragic place for so many people who lost their loved ones; close family and friends, including our very famous relative Fikret Hodzic (Bodybuilder) a friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger.


My last visit to the school was this Spring with my very close British friends: Cass Pennant and Joe Egan and it has awakened for me some very good and some very bad memories.

However, we were asked kindly from the school if we could help them with installing much needed new windows in my old classroom where the children currently receive education.


We are looking to improve one classroom where I used to study as a child with better ambience for children to be kept warm during the long cold winters.

We are talking about taking out the old traditional rotten wooden windows that the wind whispers through, using special insulation feelers to feel in the gaps and installing double glazed windows for the kids to be kept warm.

The classroom is old, but previously we have managed to secure the second-hand computers which improved the quality of children’s education tremendously.

There is whole side of the classroom covered with windows and we are hoping to buy new double glaze windows and install all of them at once.

 

How the money will be spent:

Now to break down our cost:

1.      Plastic double-glazed windows will cost £2,570.

2.      To take the old windows out and dispose them £2,026.

3.      Special feelers for the gaps £492.

To complete this project successfully with the best results we would like to raise a total of £5088 and see the old windows taken out, and new windows installed for the kids ideally for the beginning of September 2018 when their new year commences.


Why this cause means so much to you

If you can help us with a kind donation to bring the smiles to those young people living in a multi-ethnic community who have managed to bring their hearts and souls together and live in peace and harmony with the best education for their future and to remember us for our humanitarian kind hearts from the UK and the rest of the World, we would be most grateful and thankful, as well as our children that share that school in Trnopolje.


With your helpful donation, we can make that happen and keep our children warm during the long cold winter days in Bosnia.

I always say;

‘Our children are the future,

Our children are hope,

Our children can bring alive our biggest dream.

Let’s be part of them and let them

be part of us,

with the new windows at least, they can receive some  good quality education.’



We are very grateful for any donation you make! 
Thank you so much for all of your support. We would not be able to complete this project without it!!!Everything (except a small payment charge) will go to the cause. 
Should we exceed our target; funds will be invested in the ongoing and future operation of the school to ensure that children have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of this education. 


Thank you very much for your interest, we appreciate your support greatly. 

Mirsad Solakovic with Cass Pennant and Joe Egan