INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS OUTSIDE THE BALKANS

Action for Peoples in Conflict

Silverbirch House
Longworth,
Abingdon, Oxon. OX13 5EJ
Wales, United Kingdom
E-mail: afpicuk@gn.apc.org  
Web Site: http://www.oneworld.org/afpic/  
Contact for Balkans: Caleb Moon, Shivaji Shiva  
Tel: 01235 519393  
E-mail: Balkans@afpic.freeserve.co.uk.

Action for Peoples in Conflict (AfPiC) is a UK charity working for helping to break cycles of violence, hatred and despair by providing psychological and emotional support in conflict situations. AfPiC is initially focusing its activities on children who have the greatest capacity to transcend the conflicts of their communities and to bring about change in the future. AfPiC works to create places of safety - schools, kindergartens, playgrounds and orphanages - where trained key workers provide a climate of support and befriending tailored to the needs of young people and their communities. The organization is building safe play areas for the children in Kosovo.

Balkan Peace Team

Ringstr. 9a
D-32427 Minden
Germany  
Tel.: ++49 (0)571-20776
Fax: ++49 (0)571-23019
E-mail: BPT@BalkanPeaceTeam.Org
Web Site: http://www.BalkanPeaceTeam.Org

The Balkan Peace Team works for the peaceful resolution of conflict, having international volunteers working with and supporting local peace and human rights groups. BPT is a cooperative effort of several international grassroots peace organizations that works at the request of local peace workers. The Balkan Peace Team (BPT) is a project that provides day-to-day support for the work of peace and human rights advocates in the states of the former Yugoslavia. At the invitation of local non-governmental organizations, BPT has placed international teams of volunteers in Kosovo/a, Croatia and Serbia where their daily presence has helped to enable local activists to carry out their work more effectively. The work of the BPT teams is mostly in the background, providing encouragement and network connections, between organizations in different ethnic communities, provide a common space for them to gather, arrange skill sharing workshops, or build links between local activists and international agencies or organizations. The teams maintain a strict non-partisan approach, developing contacts and being available to every ethnic community. BPT is a project sponsored by 11 member organizations (both international and national) based in 7 different countries. BPT's work is supported by donations from individuals and a variety of local groups and international organizations.

Balkan Sunflowers

Main office:
Postfach 1219
D-14806 Belzig, Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)33841-306 70
Fax: +49-(0)33841-306 71
E-mail: balkansunflower@mir.org  
Applications: applications@mir.org
Info (autoresponder): lists@mir.org
Web Site: http://www.ddh.nl/org/balkansunflower/intro.html

Wam Kat, Founder
Phone: +49-33841-30670 (Belzig Germany)
E-mail: wam@mir.org 

Balkan Sunflowers is an international grassroots organization that was originally founded to aid the Kosovar refugees.  It brings together volunteers from all over the world to help restore community life, to soothe the experience of being uprooted, and to overcome the sense of having been deserted, in ways that emergency aid and political support is not. Groups of Balkan Sunflowers volunteers are now working in Kosovo,  Albania and Macedonia. Volunteers come for at least four weeks, and establish themselves in war-torn towns, refugee camps or vulnerable communities, organizing children and youth activities and workshops for adults, teaching courses, or providing information. They aim to make life easier and more fun, and to contribute to a climate of trust and self-confidence in which people will more easily discern the opportunities open to them. Although the Sunflowers project, now the collected effort of an international network, sprang forth from the e-appeal of one person, Wam Kat, it is based on concrete earlier experiences. It follows up on related initiatives that were succesfully undertaken in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Suncokret) and in Serbia (My Neighbour).

Balkan Sunflowers USA

Web Site: http://www.usbsf.org/contactus1.htm  
            

Contact: Katarzyna Wargan, President  
            3701 16th Street NW #500
            Washington DC, 20010 USA
            Tel: 202-726-3317 
            E-mail: kate@usbsf.org

 Doug Williams, Vice President  
             10 Gartland Street
             Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
             Tel: 617-522-6080  
             E-mail: dpw@usbsf.org

Balkan Sunflowers by Country

Albania
(for information queries please contact the central office first!)
Tirana Office/Peace Hostel
rr. Myslym Shyri 120/Postbox 2435
Tirana
Tel.: +355-42-42340  
E-mail: bsf_mail@albnet.net

Kosov@
(for information queries please contact the central office first!)
Pristina office
Bregu i Dielliet 2 block 13 app. 32,
Pristina
tel.: + 381 (0)38 20842
mobile: + 381 (0)63 8051 814
E-mail: bsfkosova@mir.org

Macedonia
(for information queries please contact the central office first!)
Skopje Office
Risto Ravanovski 4
Skopje 1000
E-mail: macsunfl@freemail.org.mk
Tel./Fax: + 389 91 363 142
Mobile: + 49 173 2333703

Balkan Sunflowers Co-support:

Service Civil International  
Web Site: http://www.ines.org/sci/

In many countries national SCI organizations have taken on the responsibility of (prospective) volunteer recruitment, briefing and training. The SCI Homepage has an overview of SCI National Branches.

Croatia:
Vanja Nikolic  
Centar za Mirovne Studije
Zagreb
E-mail: vnikolic@zamir.net

Czech Republic:

Adéla Kubícková  
Mírové Centrum
Cvrcovice 215
CZ - 273 41 Brandýsek
Tel: +420.312.693 612
Mobile +420.603.569 243  
E-mail: adela@ecn.cz

Slovenia
Irena Lengar/MOST (SCI Slovenia)
Breg 12
SI-1000 Ljubljana
tel: +38661 1258067
fax: +38661 217 208
E- mail: drustvo.most@siol.net

Netherlands
Vrijwillige Internationale Actie/VIA (SCI Netherlands)
M.v.B Bastiaansestraat 56
1054 SP, Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)20-6892760
E-mail: vianl@xs4all.nl

France
SCI France - (Balkans Working Group)
2 rue Camille Flammarion
F-75018 Paris
Tel: +33 1 42 54 62 43
Fax: +33 1 42 54 06 18
E-mail: scifr@club-internet.fr

United Kingdom
IVS Great Britain (Southern England)
Old Hall, East Bergholt
GB-Colchester CO7 6TQ
Tel: 44.1206.298215
Fax: 44.1206.299043
E-mail: ivs@ivsgbsouth.demon.co.uk    

Chico Peace & Justice Center

526 Broadway  
Chico,CA 95928  
Tel:  (530) 893-9078
Email: PeaceFirst@aol.com  
Web Site: http://www.becnet.org/ChicoPeace/

The Chico Peace and Justice center is a non-profit coalition of individuals working on various issues, related to peace, social and economic justice and environmental concerns. The Chico Peace Center follows the situation in former Yugoslavia closely and educates the local community about the conflict as part of its broader peace education program. Since the war began, the Center has mobilized its local membership to hold Women-in-Black vigils and other protests against the war, organized community forums, and provided support to independent media and draft resisters in the region. Their recent work has included support for local Bosnian refugees. The organization relies heavily on the work of volunteers.

Conflict Resolution Catalysts

PO Box 836
Montpelier, VT 05602
Tel: (802) 229-1165  
Tel: (800) 445-1165
Fax: (802) 229-1166
E-mail: crc@sover.net   
Web Site: http://www.crcvt.org

Since 1987, Conflict Resolution Catalysts -- a small non-profit organization based in Montpelier, Vermont USA -- has been active world-wide to empower ordinary citizens to be peacemakers in their communities and encourage greater education and use of nonviolent conflict resolution in the former Soviet Union and Bosnia. Conflict Resolution Catalysts's (CRC) mission in Bosnia is to support and facilitate citizen peacemaking, community building, open dialogue, reconciliation, and civil society development. CRC assists local citizen groups in both political entities within Bosnia, mainly in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. Core programs include community centers; joint local/international Neighborhood Facilitator teams to reduce tensions through mediation, human rights monitoring, and trust-building activities in neighborhoods; youth, culture and psychological support programs; community-oriented media; and the facilitation of contacts between citizens of the two political entities. CRC is currently developing the "Community Facilitators" project where local and international citizens will work in Kosovo as community problem-solvers to address basic economic, psychological, and security needs, beginning in spring 2000. CRC recruits and trains international volunteers to assist these programs.

Crabgrass- Working for Social Change

Crabgrass-Working for Social Change
3181 Mission Street #30
San Francisco, California 94110
Tel: 510-428-0240
Fax: 510-601-5683  
E-mail: crabgrass@igc.org 
Web Site: http://www.crabgrass.org

Crabgrass is a small non-governmental organization based in San Francisco working globally and locally, on environmental, social justice and human rights issues. Crabgrass builds on the idea that human beings, like crabgrass, may appear to be separate individuals but we are all deeply connected and inseparable. Crabgrass builds on this connection by creating support systems for communities in need, particularly among women. They gather support for women's projects in all parts of the former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo: refugee projects, health clinics, and educational programs for girls, and economic development efforts, peace efforts. They build support in the U.S. through public speaking, articles in progressive publications, and a periodic newsletter. The group has also sponsored the creation of Balkans youth organization called YouthLink [BYL]. It acts across ethnic lines to empower youth working for peace and stability in the Balkans.  BYL is committed to human rights and democratic change: providing financial, educational and other resources of its own; offering access to additional resources; and promoting linkages between its constituents and like-minded youth in other parts of the world. It responds primarily to initiatives coming from youth activists and leaders in the Balkan region, especially encouraging efforts that build self-confidence and skills, and promote mutual trust among diverse ethnic communities.

C.R.A.S.H.

Aquamarijnlaann 120
3523 EM Utrecht
Tel. (+31) 030 - 2804255
Fax (+31) 030 2382723
E-mail: crash@tip.nl  
Web Site: http://www1.tip.nl/~t815775/index.htm  
Contact: Frank v.d. Pas

C.R.A.S.H. is a half Dutch, half Bosnian Non Governmental humanitarian organization of volunteers who chose to concentrate its effort on supporting the internal and external reintegration of Bosnian youth culture, spearheaded by its music scene. At the moment branches exist in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. The organization works for fund raising, collecting money, organizing tours of Bosnian bands, folk and dance groups in different countries.

DIA

B.P. 170
13474 Marseille cedex02 
FRANCE
Tel + 33 4 91 90 78 00
Fax + 33 4 91 90 85 38
E-mail: dia@diwan.net
Web Site: http://www.diwan.net/index.htm  
Contact Person: Stephane GONZALEZ, Program Coordinator

The DIA Association is a French non-governmental organization established in 1989 in Lyon, with the goal of helping youth in crisis territories throughout the world. The organizations have established programs and youth organizations throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as the Euroclubs and Youth information centers and points Euroclubs serve to promote dialogue and initiatives among young people, by providing opportunities to meet each other and communicate, to launch new ideas and projects, and to have fun. Goals of this co-operation include overcoming the difficulties in communication between young people, as well as empowering their influence on civil society building within their own communities and countries.

Dovetail Aid

Osborne House, Top Road,  
Summerhill, Wrexham, LL11 4TE  
United Kingdom  
Phone: ++44 1978 721688  
Fax: ++ 44 1978 721688
E-mail: gtaylorgo@excite.com  
Contact Person: Gareth Taylor

Dovetail Aid is a registered UK Charity set up in response to the troubles in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The mission of the charity is to support those children in the region who are mentally or physically handicapped, and therefore need a more creative individually tailored approach to aid their development. More importantly, the charity aims to promote and provide a framework for the communities of the region to support those among them with special needs. An underlying principle of the charity's work is that it must be inclusive of all ethnic groups within the region. The organization works creatively amongst children to provide a neutral context within which trust can be built and re-build riddled with mistrust and suspicion communities.

The Dutch Peace Office (P.O.O) "Buitenpost"
 
Grote Berg 41
5611 KH Eindhoven
Netherlands
Tel / Fax: 00 31 40 2444 707
E-mail: vredesb@iaehv.nl
Contact: Hans Matheeuwsen

The Dutch Peace Office organizes inter-regional and international cultural activities, which are aimed at the youth. These activities often have a social, cultural or educational background above economical reasons. The Dutch Peace office also aims to supply and support information exchange between Bosnia and other places in the world, like the Netherlands, former Yugoslavia through information programs in the Eindhoven region and other places in the Netherlands, through a monthly newsletter, through an internet magazine and through elaboration of specific questions from out the society. Related to this is the foundation of an office that supplies cultural facilities. One of the goals of the organization is to stimulation of foreign involvement towards the social reconstruction of Bosnia Herzegovina by lowering the threshold for visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina and supplying information for seminars, meetings and promoting Bosnian products abroad. The Peace Office works on several smaller, independent, projects.

Buitenpost Sarajevo (P.O.O.)
 
Postanska Pretinac 147
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia Herzegovina
Tel /Fax: 00 387 71 536855
Mobile (00 31) (0) 6 53523896
E-mail: POO_MSP@bih.net.ba  
Coordinator: Martin S. Past
Cooperator: Darko Kujundzic

Global Children's Organization

4801 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (323) 761-8910
FAX: (323) 761-8912   
E-mail: gco@globalchild.org  
Web Site: http:// www.globalchild.org 
Contact: Carolin Borman
E-mail: jjenya@hotmail.com  
Contact: Judith Jenya

Global Children's Organization brings together children who have suffered the horrors of war, family or community violence, hatred, or intolerance, and with the help of multinational volunteers, develops peace and reconciliation. In the Balkans, GCO has regularly held a peace-building summer camp, incorporating educational activities and reinforcing non-violent conflict resolution. Children of varying ethnic and religious backgrounds—Muslims, Catholics, Jews, and Orthodox—many refugees and orphans, have come from Bosnia, Croatia, Kosova and other regions to find refuge at GCO’s island camp off the Adriatic coast of Croatia. Children who attend these camps now live in orphanages, refugee camps, recently destroyed homes and collective centers. At camp they have the opportunity to begin healing using art, drama, music, sports, swimming and childhood play. They participate in daily activities emphasizing the creation of personal, peaceful solutions to conflict and diverse communities and the protection of the natural environment.

Madre

121 West 27th Street, Room 301
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212/627-0444
Fax: 212/675-3704
E-mail: madre@igc.org  
Web Site: http://www.madre.org/

MADRE is an international women's human rights organization, working in partnership with community-based women's organizations in conflict areas worldwide to address issues of women's health, economic development and other human rights. Since 1993, MADRE has worked with democratic, multi-ethnic women's groups in Former Yugoslavia to combat rape as a weapon of war, to support survivors, and to help women's groups develop and disseminate critiques of nationalist oppression. The organization works in Serbia and Kosovo with Motrat Qiriazi, an rural Albanian women's education group, and Women in Black, enabling Albanian Kosovar and Serb women to reach out to each other across lines of conflict to develop democratic, multi-ethnic solutions to the crisis in Yugoslavia. These women are creating community-based workshops and discussion groups, educational curricula and media campaigns aimed at cultivating long-term alternatives to the nationalism.

Pax Christi International

Rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains 21
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: ++32/2/502.55.50
Fax: ++32/2/502.46.26
E-mail: hello@paxchristi.net
           library@paxchristi.net
Web Site: http://www.paxchristi.net/

Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement with national sections on four continents. Members are involved in peace efforts in the fields of demilitarization and security, human rights, ecology, development, economic justice and reconciliation. Pax Christi has representatives at the United Nations, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the Council of Europe. Pax Christi International has a special emphasis on youth in its activities. Each national section, which forms a youth group, may nominate one youth representative for two years. The Youth Forum plans the international routes, seminars and other activities described below and each representative is responsible to link these with the youth work within their section. An international European route provides an opportunity for many young people from all over the world to walk, study, pray and socialize together on a selected theme and in a European setting. The youth groups of Pax Christi Flanders and Pax Christi Netherlands are carrying out an exchange project between young people from Serbia and the Albanian youth of Kosovo.

Pax Christi Sections

Associated Groups

Pax Christi United States
532 West 8th Street
Erie, PA, 16502-1343
USA
Tel: 1/814/453.49.55
Fax: 1/814/452.47.84
E-mail: info@paxchristiusa.org
Web Site: http://www.nonviolence.org/pcusa

PBI Peace Brigades International

International Office
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
U.K.
Tel: 44-020-7713-0392
Fax: 44-020-7837-2290
Email: pbiio@gn.apc.org  
Web Site:  http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/index.html#top

Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a grassroots organization that explores and promotes nonviolent peacekeeping and support for human rights. When invited, PBI sends teams of volunteers into areas of political repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations, and others threatened by political violence. Those responsible for human rights abuses usually do not want the world to witness their actions. The presence of volunteers backed by an emergency response network thus helps deter violence. In this way, we create space for local activists to work for social justice and human rights. Currently, Peace Brigades International has long-term projects in Colombia, Indonesia/East Timor, and Haiti, as well as joint projects with other organizations in the Balkans and Chiapas, Mexico and a new project in Mexico. The organization is a part of the Balkan Peace Team and relies on volunteers and supporters around the world.

PRONI Institute of Social Education

Headquarters:

Strömsbergs Gård
SE-553 08 Jönköping
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)36-187500
Fax: +46 (0)36-186300  
E-mail: proni.sweden@proni.se  
Web Site: http://www.proni.se
Contact: Lars Hartvigson, Chairman

PRONI Institute of Social Education is a Swedish foundation, with its international partners, working to influence and change basic values of young people between the ages of 14 to 17. PRONI has been working in Northern Ireland and Sweden for more than 20 years. The aim is to give young people living in a segregated society a possibility to meet and explore realities and myths about the other side. PRONI is linked to a network of professional teachers and youth leaders with experience of cross community work over many years. Since 1996 activities have been developed in Croatia and Bosnia. Proni's local organizations in former Yugoslavia are Proni Center for Social Education, Osijek/Vukovar of Croatia, Proni Youth Organizations Brčko/Rahić of Bosnia, and the the Proni offices Travnik/Vitez of Bosnia. The aim is to develop a platform for working with youth, to educate youth leaders with special skills in how to develop and inspire young people living in a conflict situation. PRONI Center for Social Education in Croatia works and trains Croatian and Serbian youth leaders from Osijek and Vukovar in integration methods. In Bosnia and Herzegovina PRONI has established youth groups aimed to educate youth leaders with special skills in how to develop and inspire young people living in conflict situations and provide a meeting space for young people.

          Bosnia and Herzegovina  

Proni Institute of Social Education
Proni Institut za Socijalnu Edukaciju

Ul. Prote Mateje Nenadovića 33
76000 Brčko
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Phone: +381 (0)76 26456
Fax: +381 (0)76 205695  
E-mail: proni.brcko@proni.se
Contact: Gunilla Koelega

Proni Helping Hand

Ogradjenovac br. 2
76207 G. Rahić
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Phone: +387 (0)76 372971
Fax: +387 76 373154  
E-mail: proni.rahic@proni.se
Contact: Gunilla Koelega

Proni Institut za Socijalnu Edukaciju
Proni Youth Centre, Travnik

Žitarnica Blok B
722 70 Travnik
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Phone: +387 (0)72 518926
Phone/Fax: +387 (0)72 511565  
E-mail: proni.travnik@proni.se
Contact: Karolina Vrethem

Proni Youth Centre, Vitez

Petra Svačića bb
72250 Vitez
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Phone/Fax: +387 (0)72 712 881  
E-mail: proni.vitez@proni.se  
Contact: Karolina Vrethem

Proni Institut za Socijalnu Edukaciju
Proni Youth Centre, Doboj

E-mail: proni.doboj@proni.se

Croatia  

Proni Centre for Social Education
Proni Centar za Socijalno Podućavanje

Setaliste Petra Preradovica 7/2
31000 Osijek
Hrvatska / Croatia
Phone: +385 31-207428
Fax: +385 31-207427  
E-mail: proni.osijek@proni.se  
Contact:  Tatjana Skrbić

Proni Centre for Social Education
Proni Centar za Socijalno Podućavanje

 
Borisa Kidriča 49
32000 Vukovar
Hrvatska / Croatia
Phone: +385 32-441612
Fax: +385 32-655106 
E-mail: proni.vukovar@proni.se
Contact: Genka Vorkapić

Search for Common Ground

1601 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.Suite 200
Washington DC 20009
USA  
Tel:(202) 265 4300  
Fax:(202) 232 6718  
E-mail: search@sfcg.org  
Web Site: http://www.searchforcommonground.org
Contact: John Marks, president

Search for Common Ground, in partnership with the European Center for Common Ground, is an international non-profit peace and conflict resolution organization. Its goal is to transform the way the world deals with conflict - from adversarial approaches towards cooperative solutions. Search for Common Ground believes in long-term commitment and aspires to a permanent presence in conflict areas. Currently, there are eight fully operational offices around the world: Donetsk, Ukraine; Skopje, Macedonia; Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Monrovia, Liberia; Bujumbura, Burundi; Luanda, Angola; Amman, Jordan; and Gaza City (see separate entries). The organization employs different methods , such  as training, capacity-building, and convening adversaries for dialogue, as well as less standard methods as TV and radio productions, investigative reporting, community organizing, convening professional groups and promoting cooperation among NGOs, governments and international organizations.
It emphasizes the use of electronic media. Its special media division Common Ground Productions has carried out numerous projects around the world and in the Balkans,  including a children's TV series in Macedonia series 'Resolutions Radio: Bosnia's Search for Common Ground. More under Organizations by Country- Macedonia. 

Schueler Helfen Leben (Students Help Living)

SHL-Germany
Preußerstr. 21
24536 Neumünster
Deutschland
Tel. +49 4321 936 785
Fax +49 4321 936 786
E-mail: shl@schueler-helfen-leben.de  
Web Site: http://www.shl-online.de

A German student organization created in 1992 to help students and young people in war-torn Yugoslavia. The organization became famous for its involvement in reconstruction projects. For than two years Schueler Helfen Leben has been working with young people from all ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The organization brings together Muslims, Croats and Serbs for common activities. Through seminars, workshops and summer camps, it gives them the opportunity to get to know each other and overcome hatred and  prejudice. The organization has created a network for contacts, projects and friendship among young people called YouthNet. Schueler Helfen leben also publishes the only multiethnic youth magazine in Bosnia: nepitani (Unquestioned). The organization is also active in Kosovo.

SHL - Sarajevo / shlhouse
Lepenicka 39
71210 Sarajevo
Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel. +387 33 475 000/1
Fax +387 33 475 002
E-mail: Sarajevo@schueler-helfen-leben.de

SHL - Kosov@/Makedonija
Blvd. Kliment Ohridiski 23
91000 Skopje
Makedonija
Tel. +389 91 118 247
Fax +389 91 116 361
Email: Kosovo@schueler-helfen-leben.de

  War Child International

E-mail: mail@warchild.globalnet.co.uk  
 Web Site: http://www.warchild.org/

War Child was founded in 1993 by film makers Bill Leeson and David Wilson after witnessing the plight of children caught up in the war in former Yugoslavia. War Child was set out to bring immediate material help to children of all ages and ethnic backgrounds in Croatia and Bosnia, War child started the establishment of a mobile field bakeries capable of feeding thousands of people daily. War Child has funded a network of NGO's and implemented more than twenty projects throughout Bosnia, covering the areas of medical care, food provision, reconstruction and educational and social welfare programs.  War Child also undertook the responsibility of running an orphanage in the town of Tuzla, looking after forty children under the age of six. The organization helped establish the Pavarotti Music Center in December 1997.  The center offers a wide range of music tuition, specialist music and art therapy for children, coupled with performance areas and recording studios.  War Child has now spread its work beyond Bosnia to war zones around the world, such as  central America, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Sudan  and others. War Child now has offices in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, the United States, France and West Africa. 

War Child USA

Main Office  
            1827 Swann Street, N.W. Suite #2  
            Washington, D.C. 20009  
             Tel:(202) 842-4881 
             E-mail: warchildusa@yahoo.com

New York Office  
            135 Rivington Street  Suite 3F  
            New York, NY 10002  
            Tel: (212) 260-5698 
            E-mail: warchildny@earthlink.com  
            Web Site: http://www.warchildusa.org/splash.html

Established recently as a not-for-profit organization under U.S. tax law, War Child USA quickly is becoming a full partner with War Child's international organization. War Child USA initiated and implemented an ongoing project to support independent radio in the Balkan region, and has received the support of such diverse organizations and individuals as the Circuit City Foundation, the Hard Rock Café, the Lollapalooza Fund, R.E.M., the U.S. Department of State, and radio stations 99X-FM (Atlanta) and 99.1 WHFS-FM (Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis).

War Child Branches:

War Child UK 
War Child Netherlands  
War Child Ireland  
War Child Canada
War Child representation in Australia  
War Child West Africa

Women's Aid to Former Yugoslavia

WATFY  

20 Tennyson Road,  
Portswood, Southampton SO17 2GW  
Tel: 01703 551094  
E-mail: waty@gn.apc.org

WATFY has been working in the former Yugoslavia since 1992 delivering aid to refugees and displaced people in Bosnia, Croatia Serbia and Slovenia. WATFY also supports women's, peace and anti-war groups in the region.