BiH recently appointed Djemila Gabriel for Honorary Consul in New South Wales. This successful Bosnian woman and humanitarian born in Bosanska Dubica lives in Australia and she is engaged in the business of real estate in several countries around the world. She is married to an Australian businessman Chris Gabriel, one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Her function of honorary consul came after a long and very successful cooperation with the Embassy of BiH. She says that she considers it as a result of her work on the financial support and marketing promotion of the name of our country in the political structures of Australia, thanks to the well-known real estate agency whose owner she is. Her clientele are people from the very top of the political structure of the country, and those from the world of acting, culture, etc.
“I always proudly say to all of my clients that I come from the beautiful country of BiH. Unfortunately, our country is still remembered as the focal point of the war, but through my stories and photos they can see its other face,” said this influential woman.
When asked about the goals of the business, Djemila replied: “I would like to make a strong, stable and concerted structure from our community a structure that breaks all barriers, and believe me that we have a great potential, but we need to know to take advantage and focus on the right path. Also, my aim is to attract as many tourists in BiH as possible, because we really have something to show. We have such natural beauty, lakes, mountains and sea, we just need some real marketing to win the market. My husband called our country as the best-preserved secret in the world so why not to use something like this? We admire the Croatian sea, and we have Neum? Are we more attracted to The Alps than Bjelasnica and Jahorina? We all need to work on the marketing of our own country, rather than neighboring countries.”
However, she emphasizes that the priority is the work of School of Bosnian language because, as she says, we will lose our identity without the knowledge of the language.
“My fellow citizens, although all across the world, from America, Canada, Croatian, Slovenia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are a great support in my work,” she says with gratitude to these wonderful people.
“I always say that I left BiH, but it will never leave me. I shared my love with my children and husband. My husband loves BiH so much that he wants to spend every free moment there. The daughter who lives in BiH always looked for a job by herself and I never influenced on that. I speak in our language with our children, and the messages that we send to each other are in Bosnian in order to practice grammar. Knowing the language of our ancestors is an advantage, even in business. My son praised that knowing this knowledge helped him in meetings with his clients from our region many times,” said this inspiring woman.
(Source: A. P./Klix.ba)
